Shirley Knight
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.
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Acting History
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2018Periphery as Leanne Cross
2015The Missing Girl as Mrs. Colvins
2015Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 as Mom
2014Mercy as Gramma
2013Redwood Highway as Marie
2013Elevator as Jane Redding
2011Our Idiot Brother as Ilene Rochlin
2010Listen to Your Heart as Grandma Sam
2010Hot in Cleveland as Loretta
2009Drop Dead Diva as Millie Carlson
2009The Private Lives of Pippa Lee as Dot Nadeau
2009Paul Blart: Mall Cop as Mom
2008Not Fade Away as Diane
2008The Other Side of the Tracks as Helen
2006Open Window as Ann
2006Love and Debate as Lea
2006Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time as Self
2006The Unit
2006Grandma's Boy as Bea
2005Sexual Life as Joanne
2004House as Georgia Adams
2004Desperate Housewives as Phyllis Van De Kamp
2004Sudbury as Aunt Jet
2003A House on a Hill as Mercedes Mayfield
2003Mrs. Ashboro's Cat as Mrs. Ashboro
2003Cold Case as Dottie
2003Fly Cherry as Miss Christina
2002Shadow Realm as Mrs. Finch
2002Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood as Necie Kelleher
2002P.S. Your Cat is Dead! as Aunt Claire
2002The Salton Sea as Nancy Plummer
2001Crossing Jordan as Frances Littleton
2001Angel Eyes as Elanora Davis
2001My Louisiana Sky as Jewel Ramsey
200075 Degrees in July as Jo Beth Anderson
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Wharton
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Rose Granville
1998A Marriage of Convenience as Harriet Winslow
1998Maggie Winters as Estelle Winters
1998A Father for Brittany as Donna Minkowitz
1998Significant Others
1998The Wedding as Gram (Miss Caroline)
1997As Good as It Gets as Beverly Connelly
1997Convictions as Margaret
1997Ally McBeal as Helen Apple
1997Little Boy Blue as Doris Knight
1996Somebody Is Waiting as Irma
1996Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story as Joan Hart
1996Mary & Tim as Esther
1996The Uninvited as Delia
1996If These Walls Could Talk as Mary Donnelly
1996Diabolique as Edie Danziger
1996A Promise to Carolyn as Jolene Maggart
1996Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden as Sally Ann
1995Indictment: The McMartin Trial as Peggy Buckey
1995Stuart Saves His Family as Mom
1995VR.5 as Dr. Hearst
1995Children of the Dust as Aunt Bertha
1995Cybill as Loretta Bennett
1995Dad, the Angel & Me as Betty
1994Death in Venice, CA as Mona Dickens
1994ER as Mrs. Burke
1994Color of Night as Edith Niedelmeyer
1994A Part of the Family as Martha
1994The Yarn Princess as Esther
1994Baby Brokers as Sylvia
1994Benders as Donna
1994The Secret Life of Houses as Aunt Fergie
1993A Mother's Revenge as Bess Warden
1993NYPD Blue as Agnes Cantwell
1993Angel Falls as Edie Wren Cox
1993When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn as Edna Larson
1991To Save a Child as Rinda Larson
1991Shadow of a Doubt as Helen Potter
1991Bump in the Night as Katie Leonard
1990Law & Order as Melanie Cullen
1987thirtysomething
1986L.A. Law as Belinda Collins
1986Matlock as Phyllis Todd
1985The Equalizer as Kay
1984The Sweet Scent of Death as Ann Fairfax Denver
1984With Intent to Kill as Edna Reinecker
1984Murder, She Wrote as Grace Fenton
1984Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense as Ann Denver
1982The Sender as Jerolyn
1982Kennedy's Children as Carla
1981Endless Love as Ann
1981Nurse as Sylvia Dennis
1980Playing for Time as Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
1979Beyond the Poseidon Adventure as Hannah Meredith
1979Tales of the Unexpected as Elizabeth Bourdon
1979Champions: A Love Story as Barbara Harlich
1978The Defection of Simas Kudirka as Genna Kudirka
197621 Hours at Munich as Anneliese Graes
1976Return to Earth as Joan Aldrin
1975Medical Story as Phyllis Lenahan
1975Medical Story
1975Friendly Persuasion as Eliza Birdwell
1975Please Stand by for Murder
1974Juggernaut as Barbara Banister
1974The Manhunter
1974The Country Girl as Georgie Elgin
1973The Lie as Anna
1973Barnaby Jones as Kay Lewiston
1972The Streets of San Francisco
1972Ghost Story as Beth
1972That Quiet Earth as The Woman
1971Secrets as Beatrice
1971Alias Smith and Jones
1969Medical Center
1969The Bold Ones: The New Doctors as Marci Boyle
1969The Rain People as Natalie Ravenna
1968Filmmaker as Self (uncredited)
1968The Jazz Age as Emily Castleton
1968Petulia as Polo
1968The Counterfeit Killer as Angie Peterson
1968Shadow Over Elveron as Joanne Tregaskis
1967The Outsider as Peggy Leydon
1967The Invaders as Margaret Cook
1966Dutchman as Lula
1966The Group as Polly
1964Flight from Ashiya as Caroline Gordon / Stevenson
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963The Fugitive as Jane Washburn
1963The Fugitive as Mona Ross
1963The Fugitive as Janice Pruitt
1963The Outer Limits as Noelle Anderson
1963Arrest and Trial as Rhoda Waggner
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962The Virginian as Susan Morrow
1962The Virginian as Clara Malone
1962House of Women as Erica Hayden
1962Sweet Bird of Youth as Heavenly Finley
1962The Couch as Terry Ames
1961Target: The Corruptors!
1961The Defenders as Bethany Windell
1960The Roaring 20's
1960Surfside 6
1960The Dark at the Top of the Stairs as Reenie Flood
1960Ice Palace as Grace Kennedy
1959Hawaiian Eye
1959Bourbon Street Beat
1959Five Gates to Hell as Sister Maria
1959Johnny Staccato
1959Rawhide as Jennie Cooper
195877 Sunset Strip as Mari Ellen Taylor
1958Lawman as Tendis Weston
1958Naked City as Kathy Meigs
1958The Texan
1958Bronco
1958Buckskin as Mrs. Newcomb
1957The Restless Gun as Heide Ritter
1957Maverick as Nancy Powers
1956Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1956Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1956Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1955Matinee Theater
1953The Oscars as Self
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Georgie Elgin
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Mrs. Potter
1950The Bob Hope Show as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee