Shirley Knight
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| Shirley Knight | |
| Birth name | Shirley Enola Knight |
| Born | July 5, 1936 (age 70) Goessel, Kansas, USA |
| Other name(s) | Shirley Knight Hopkins |
| Years active | 1959-present |
| Spouse(s) | John Hopkins 1969-1998 Gene Persson 1959-1969 |
| Notable roles | Phyllis Van De Kamp, Desperate Housewives Mrs. Ashboro, Ghost Cat Elenora Davis, Angel Eyes |
| Emmy Awards | |
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| Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie 1995 Indictment: The McMartin Trial |
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| Tony Awards | |
| Best Featured Actress in a Play 1976 Kennedy's Children |
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Shirley Enola Knight (born July 5, 1936, Goessel, Kansas) is an American actress who made her film debut in 1959. The following year she was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and again, in 1962, for her role as Paul Newman's sweetheart in Sweet Bird of Youth.
She appeared in The Group (1964) and Petulia (1967). She also starred in Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969).
In the 1960s she abandoned Hollywood in favor of the Broadway stage, but she has since returned to film as Helen Hunt's mother in As Good As It Gets, and to television in a number of programs, including as Faith Ford's mother in Ford's failed sitcom Maggie Winters, and on series such as Murder, She Wrote, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Desperate Housewives as Bree Van De Kamp's mother-in-law Phyllis Van De Kamp.
She has two daughters, Kaitlin Hopkins and Sophie Hopkins, by two different marriages, both are also actors. Sophie is daughter of the writer John Hopkins.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Open Window (2006) - Ann
- Grandma's Boy (2006) - Bea
- Locked In (2005) Marianne
- To Lie in Green Pastures (2005) - Peggy
- Sexual Life (2005) - Joanna
- Thanks to Gravity (2005) - Lea
- Ghost Cat (2003) - Mrs. Ashboro
- Angel Eyes (2001) - Elenora Davis
- As Good as It Gets (1997) - Beverly Connely
- Little Boy Blue (1997) - Doris Knight
- Death In Venice, CA (1994) - Mona Dickens
- Color of Night (1994) - Edith Niedelmeyer
- Endless Love (1981) - Ann Butterfield
- Five Gates to Hell (1959) - Sister Maria
[edit] External links
- Shirley Knight at the Internet Movie Database
- Shirley Knight at the TCM Movie Database
- Shirley Knight at the Internet Broadway Database
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