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