Shirley Knight

Shirley Knight

Birthday: 1936-07-05
Deathday: 2020-04-22
Place of birth: Goessel, Kansas, USA
Also know as: Shirley Enola Knight

Biography

Shirley Enola Knight 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.

Filmography

As Good as It Gets

1997

As Beverly Connelly

Shadow Realm

2002

As Mrs. Finch

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

2009

As Dot Nadeau

Little Boy Blue

1997

As Doris Knight

Diabolique

1996

As Edie Danziger

Open Window

2006

As Ann

Angel Eyes

2001

As Elanora Davis

The Salton Sea

2002

As Nancy Plummer

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

1979

As Hannah Meredith

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

2002

As Necie Kelleher

Sweet Bird of Youth

1962

As Heavenly Finley

Grandma's Boy

2006

As Bea

Stuart Saves His Family

1995

As Mom

If These Walls Could Talk

1996

As Mary Donnelly

Juggernaut

1974

As Barbara Banister

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

2009

As Mom

Petulia

1968

As Polo

Mrs. Ashboro's Cat

2003

As Mrs. Ashboro

P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!

2002

As Aunt Claire

Ice Palace

1960

As Grace Kennedy

Dutchman

1966

As Lula

Endless Love

1981

As Ann

The Sender

1982

As Jerolyn

The Other Side of the Tracks

2008

As Helen

21 Hours at Munich

1976

As Anneliese Graes

The Group

1966

As Polly

Elevator

2013

As Jane Redding

My Louisiana Sky

2001

As Jewel Ramsey

The Rain People

1969

As Natalie Ravenna

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1960

As Reenie Flood

The Couch

1962

As Terry Ames

The Uninvited

1996

As Delia

House of Women

1962

As Erica Hayden

Flight from Ashiya

1964

As Caroline Gordon / Stevenson

Not Fade Away

2008

As Diane

Mercy

2015

As Gramma

75 Degrees in July

2000

As Jo Beth Anderson

A Father for Brittany

1998

As Donna Minkowitz

The Counterfeit Killer

1968

As Angie Peterson

Secrets

1971

As Beatrice

The Defection of Simas Kudirka

1978

As Genna Kudirka

Champions: A Love Story

1979

As Barbara Harlich

Redwood Highway

2013

As Marie

Our Idiot Brother

2011

As Ilene Rochlin

Five Gates to Hell

1959

As Sister Maria

Color of Night

1994

As Edith Niedelmeyer

A Mother's Revenge

1993

As Bess Warden

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

2015

As Mom

Bump in the Night

1991

As Katie Leonard

The Missing Girl

2015

As Mrs. Colvins

To Save a Child

1991

As Rinda Larson

Shadow Over Elveron

1968

As Joanne Tregaskis

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

1995

As Peggy Buckey

The Outsider

1967

As Peggy Leydon

Somebody Is Waiting

1996

As Irma

A House on a Hill

2003

As Mercedes Mayfield

Listen to Your Heart

2010

As Grandma Sam

Baby Brokers

1994

As Sylvia

Convictions

1997

As Margaret

When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn

1993

As Edna Larson

A Promise to Carolyn

1996

As Jolene Maggart

Friendly Persuasion

1975

As Eliza Birdwell

Mary & Tim

1996

As Esther

The Lie

1973

As Anna

Filmmaker

1968

As Self (uncredited)

Death in Venice, CA

1994

As Mona Dickens

Fly Cherry

2003

As Miss Christina

Return to Earth

1976

As Joan Aldrin

Playing for Time

1980

As Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel

Periphery

2018

As Leanne Cross

The Yarn Princess

1994

As Esther

Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story

1996

As Joan Hart

The Wedding

1998

As Gram (Miss Caroline)

A Marriage of Convenience

1998

As Harriet Winslow

Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden

1996

As Sally Ann

Dad, the Angel & Me

1995

As Betty

Love and Debate

2006

As Lea

The Country Girl

1974

As Georgie Elgin

With Intent to Kill

1984

As Edna Reinecker

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2021

As Self

Kennedy's Children

1982

As Carla

Medical Story

1975

As Phyllis Lenahan

Shadow of a Doubt

1991

As Helen Potter

Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time

2006

As Self

The Secret Life of Houses

1994

As Aunt Fergie

Benders

1994

As Donna

Sudbury

2004

As Aunt Jet