Shirley Knight
- Acting
- July 5, 1936 · Goessel, Kansas, USA
- April 22, 2020
Biography
Shirley Enola Knight (July 5, 1936 – April 22, 2020) was an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth.
Known for
Filmography
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age · Self
- Periphery · Leanne Cross
- The Missing Girl · Mrs. Colvins
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 · Mom
- Mercy · Mercy
- Redwood Highway · Marie
- Elevator · Jane Redding
- Our Idiot Brother · Ilene Rochlin
- Listen to Your Heart · Grandma Sam
- Hot in Cleveland · Loretta
- Drop Dead Diva · Millie Carlson
- The Private Lives of Pippa Lee · Dot Nadeau
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop · Mom
- Not Fade Away · Diane
- The Other Side of the Tracks · Helen
- Open Window · Ann
- Love and Debate · Lea
- Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time · Self
- The Unit · Mrs. Gaffney
- Grandma's Boy · Bea
- Sexual Life · Joanne
- House · Georgia Adams
- Desperate Housewives · Phyllis Van De Kamp
- Sudbury · Aunt Jet
- A House on a Hill · Mercedes Mayfield
- Mrs. Ashboro's Cat · Mrs. Ashboro
- Cold Case · Dottie
- Fly Cherry · Miss Christina
- Shadow Realm · Mrs. Finch
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood · Necie
- P.S. Your Cat is Dead! · Aunt Claire
- The Salton Sea · Nancy Plummer
- Crossing Jordan · Frances Littleton
- Angel Eyes · Elanora Davis
- My Louisiana Sky · Jewel Ramsey
- 75 Degrees in July · Jo Beth Anderson
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Dr. Wharton, Rose Granville
- A Marriage of Convenience · Harriet Winslow
- Maggie Winters · Estelle Winters
- Little Boy Blue · Doris Knight
- A Father for Brittany · Donna Minkowitz
- Significant Others
- The Wedding · Gram (Miss Caroline)
- As Good as It Gets · Beverly Connelly
- Convictions · Margaret
- Ally McBeal · Helen Apple
- Somebody Is Waiting · Irma
- Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story · Joan Hart
- Mary & Tim · Esther
- The Uninvited · Delia
- If These Walls Could Talk · Mary Donnelly
- Diabolique · Edie Danziger
- A Promise to Carolyn · Jolene Maggart
- Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden · Sally Ann
- Indictment: The McMartin Trial · Peggy Buckey
- Stuart Saves His Family · Mom
- VR.5 · Dr. Hearst
- Children of the Dust · Aunt Bertha
- Cybill · Loretta Bennett
- Dad, the Angel & Me · Betty
- Death in Venice, CA · Mona Dickens
- ER · Mrs. Burke
- Color of Night · Edith Niedelmeyer
- A Part of the Family · Martha
- The Yarn Princess · Esther
- Baby Brokers · Sylvia
- Benders · Donna
- The Secret Life of Houses · Aunt Fergie
- Hoggs' Heaven · Mom
- A Mother's Revenge · Bess Warden
- NYPD Blue · Agnes Cantwell
- Angel Falls · Edie Wren Cox
- When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn · Edna Larson
- To Save a Child · Rinda Larson
- Shadow of a Doubt · Helen Potter
- Bump in the Night · Katie Leonard
- Law & Order · Melanie Cullen
- thirtysomething
- L.A. Law · Belinda Collins
- Matlock · Phyllis Todd