Shirley Knight
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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
Credits
As Good as It Gets (1997)
as Beverly Connelly
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015)
as Mom
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)
as Mom
Color of Night (1994)
as Edith Niedelmeyer
Diabolique (1996)
as Edie Danziger
Grandma's Boy (2006)
as Bea
Angel Eyes (2001)
as Elanora Davis
Endless Love (1981)
as Ann
The Salton Sea (2002)
as Nancy Plummer
Juggernaut (1974)
as Barbara Banister
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
as Dot Nadeau
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
as Necie
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
as Hannah Meredith
Our Idiot Brother (2011)
as Ilene Rochlin
Medical Story (1975)
as Phyllis Lenahan
Sexual Life (2005)
as Joanne
If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
as Mary Donnelly
The Rain People (1969)
as Natalie Ravenna
Mercy (2014)
as Mercy
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
as Peggy Buckey
Petulia (1968)
as Polo
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021)
as Self
Hoggs' Heaven (1994)
as Mom
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
as Heavenly Finley
Elevator (2013)
as Jane Redding
Little Boy Blue (1998)
as Doris Knight
Periphery (2018)
as Leanne Cross
The Group (1966)
as Polly
Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
as Mom
Open Window (2006)
as Ann
Playing for Time (1980)
as Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
21 Hours at Munich (1976)
as Anneliese Graes
A Promise to Carolyn (1996)
as Jolene Maggart
Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story (1996)
as Joan Hart
Sudbury (2004)
as Aunt Jet
The Sender (1982)
as Jerolyn
Shadow Realm (2002)
as Mrs. Finch
Flight from Ashiya (1964)
as Caroline Gordon / Stevenson
Listen to Your Heart (2010)
as Grandma Sam
The Wedding (1998)
as Gram (Miss Caroline)
A Mother's Revenge (1993)
as Bess Warden
A Marriage of Convenience (1998)
as Harriet Winslow
The Yarn Princess (1994)
as Esther
The Outsider (1967)
as Peggy Leydon
The Country Girl (1974)
as Georgie Elgin
Somebody Is Waiting (1996)
as Irma
Ice Palace (1960)
as Grace Kennedy
The Uninvited (1996)
as Delia
Filmmaker (1968)
as Self (uncredited)
Friendly Persuasion (1975)
as Eliza Birdwell
Return to Earth (1976)
as Joan Aldrin
The Counterfeit Killer (1968)
as Angie Peterson
The Couch (1962)
as Terry Ames
When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn (1993)
as Edna Larson
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
as Reenie Flood
A Father for Brittany (1998)
as Donna Minkowitz
The Missing Girl (2015)
as Mrs. Colvins
With Intent to Kill (1984)
as Edna Reinecker
My Louisiana Sky (2001)
as Jewel Ramsey
Love and Debate (2006)
as Lea
Champions: A Love Story (1979)
as Barbara Harlich
Redwood Highway (2013)
as Marie
Mary & Tim (1996)
as Esther
Shadow of a Doubt (1991)
as Helen Potter
Five Gates to Hell (1959)
as Sister Maria
Bump in the Night (1991)
as Katie Leonard
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden (1996)
as Sally Ann
The Lie (1973)
as Anna
Mrs. Ashboro's Cat (2003)
as Mrs. Ashboro
Convictions (1997)
as Margaret
That Quiet Earth (1972)
as The Woman
The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978)
as Genna Kudirka
Baby Brokers (1994)
as Sylvia
Shadow Over Elveron (1968)
as Joanne Tregaskis
Kennedy's Children (1982)
as Carla
The Other Side of the Tracks (2008)
as Helen
The Shape of the River (1960)
as Susy Clemens
Secrets (1971)
as Beatrice
House of Women (1962)
as Erica Hayden
To Save a Child (1991)
as Rinda Larson
Dad, the Angel & Me (1995)
as Betty
75 Degrees in July (2000)
as Jo Beth Anderson
P.S. Your Cat is Dead! (2002)
as Aunt Claire
A House on a Hill (2003)
as Mercedes Mayfield
A Part of the Family (1994)
as Martha
Not Fade Away (2008)
as Diane
Fly Cherry (2003)
as Miss Christina
The Secret Life of Houses (1994)
as Aunt Fergie
The Sweet Scent of Death (1984)
as Ann Fairfax Denver
Benders (1994)
as Donna
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time (2006)
as Self
Death in Venice, CA (1994)
as Mona Dickens
Dutchman (1966)
as Lula
Please Stand by for Murder (1975)
Actor