Shirley Knight

Known for: Acting

Born: 1936-07-05 – 2020-04-22 (aged 83)

From: Goessel, Kansas, USA

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.

Filmography (161)

MOVIE
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
as Self
MOVIE
Periphery
2018
as Leanne Cross
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Missing Girl
2015
as Mrs. Colvins
MOVIE★ 5.2
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
2015
as Mom
MOVIE★ 5.2
Mercy
2014
as Mercy
MOVIE★ 5.9
Redwood Highway
2013
as Marie
MOVIE★ 4.9
Elevator
2013
as Jane Redding
MOVIE★ 6.1
Our Idiot Brother
2011
as Ilene Rochlin
MOVIE★ 7.1
Listen to Your Heart
2010
as Grandma Sam
TV★ 7.2
Hot in Cleveland
2010
as Loretta
TV★ 7.7
Drop Dead Diva
2009
as Millie Carlson
MOVIE★ 5.9
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009
as Dot Nadeau
MOVIE★ 5.5
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
2009
as Mom
MOVIE
Not Fade Away
2008
as Diane
MOVIE★ 4.2
The Other Side of the Tracks
2008
as Helen
MOVIE★ 5.4
Open Window
2006
as Ann
MOVIE★ 3.8
Love and Debate
2006
as Lea
MOVIE
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
2006
as Self
TV★ 7.3
The Unit
2006
as Mrs. Gaffney
MOVIE★ 6.5
Grandma's Boy
2006
as Bea
MOVIE★ 4.9
Sexual Life
2005
as Joanne
TV★ 8.6
House
2004
as Georgia Adams
TV★ 7.9
Desperate Housewives
2004
as Phyllis Van De Kamp
MOVIE★ 5.7
Sudbury
2004
as Aunt Jet
MOVIE★ 9.0
A House on a Hill
2003
as Mercedes Mayfield
MOVIE★ 5.6
Mrs. Ashboro's Cat
2003
as Mrs. Ashboro
TV★ 7.8
Cold Case
2003
as Dottie
MOVIE★ 6.7
Fly Cherry
2003
as Miss Christina
MOVIE★ 5.3
Shadow Realm
2002
as Mrs. Finch
MOVIE★ 6.1
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002
as Necie
MOVIE★ 4.4
P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
2002
as Aunt Claire
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Salton Sea
2002
as Nancy Plummer
TV★ 7.2
Crossing Jordan
2001
as Frances Littleton
MOVIE★ 6.0
Angel Eyes
2001
as Elanora Davis
MOVIE★ 6.4
My Louisiana Sky
2001
as Jewel Ramsey
MOVIE★ 7.0
75 Degrees in July
2000
as Jo Beth Anderson
TV★ 8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Dr. Wharton
MOVIE★ 5.8
A Marriage of Convenience
1998
as Harriet Winslow
TV★ 8.5
Maggie Winters
1998
as Estelle Winters
MOVIE★ 7.6
A Father for Brittany
1998
as Donna Minkowitz
TV★ 7.0
Significant Others
1998
MOVIE★ 8.3
The Wedding
1998
as Gram (Miss Caroline)
MOVIE★ 7.4
As Good as It Gets
1997
as Beverly Connelly
MOVIE★ 6.7
Convictions
1997
as Margaret
TV★ 6.5
Ally McBeal
1997
as Helen Apple
MOVIE★ 6.0
Little Boy Blue
1997
as Doris Knight
MOVIE★ 5.5
Somebody Is Waiting
1996
as Irma
MOVIE★ 7.1
Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story
1996
as Joan Hart
MOVIE★ 6.8
Mary & Tim
1996
as Esther
MOVIE★ 5.4
The Uninvited
1996
as Delia
MOVIE★ 6.7
If These Walls Could Talk
1996
as Mary Donnelly
MOVIE★ 5.5
Diabolique
1996
as Edie Danziger
MOVIE★ 7.1
A Promise to Carolyn
1996
as Jolene Maggart
MOVIE
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
1996
as Sally Ann
MOVIE★ 7.0
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
1995
as Peggy Buckey
MOVIE★ 5.3
Stuart Saves His Family
1995
as Mom
TV★ 6.7
VR.5
1995
as Dr. Hearst
TV★ 7.1
Children of the Dust
1995
as Aunt Bertha
TV★ 5.9
Cybill
1995
as Loretta Bennett
MOVIE★ 6.4
Dad, the Angel & Me
1995
as Betty
MOVIE★ 4.9
Death in Venice, CA
1994
as Mona Dickens
TV★ 7.8
ER
1994
as Mrs. Burke
MOVIE★ 5.8
Color of Night
1994
as Edith Niedelmeyer
MOVIE★ 9.0
A Part of the Family
1994
as Martha
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Yarn Princess
1994
as Esther
MOVIE★ 6.5
Baby Brokers
1994
as Sylvia
MOVIE★ 9.0
Benders
1994
as Donna
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Secret Life of Houses
1994
as Aunt Fergie
MOVIE★ 10.0
Hoggs' Heaven
1994
as Mom
MOVIE★ 5.1
A Mother's Revenge
1993
as Bess Warden
TV★ 7.0
NYPD Blue
1993
as Agnes Cantwell
TV★ 8.0
Angel Falls
1993
as Edie Wren Cox
MOVIE★ 3.3
When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn
1993
as Edna Larson
MOVIE★ 6.5
To Save a Child
1991
as Rinda Larson
MOVIE★ 6.0
Shadow of a Doubt
1991
as Helen Potter
MOVIE★ 5.9
Bump in the Night
1991
as Katie Leonard
TV★ 7.3
Law & Order
1990
as Melanie Cullen
TV★ 6.3
thirtysomething
1987
TV★ 7.1
L.A. Law
1986
as Belinda Collins
TV★ 7.1
Matlock
1986
as Phyllis Todd
TV★ 7.1
The Equalizer
1985
as Kay
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Sweet Scent of Death
1984
as Ann Fairfax Denver
MOVIE★ 6.5
With Intent to Kill
1984
as Edna Reinecker
TV★ 7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Grace Fenton
TV★ 6.5
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
1984
as Ann Denver
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Sender
1982
as Jerolyn
MOVIE
Kennedy's Children
1982
as Carla
MOVIE★ 5.7
Endless Love
1981
as Ann
TV★ 7.5
Nurse
1981
as Sylvia Dennis
MOVIE★ 6.9
Playing for Time
1980
as Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
MOVIE★ 5.1
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
as Hannah Meredith
TV★ 6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Elizabeth Bourdon
MOVIE★ 6.7
Champions: A Love Story
1979
as Barbara Harlich
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
1978
as Genna Kudirka
MOVIE★ 6.3
21 Hours at Munich
1976
as Anneliese Graes
MOVIE★ 10.0
Return to Earth
1976
as Joan Aldrin
MOVIE★ 7.0
Medical Story
1975
as Phyllis Lenahan
TV★ 5.0
Medical Story
1975
MOVIE★ 7.5
Friendly Persuasion
1975
as Eliza Birdwell
MOVIE
Please Stand by for Murder
1975
MOVIE★ 6.2
Juggernaut
1974
as Barbara Banister
TV★ 7.0
The Manhunter
1974
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Country Girl
1974
as Georgie Elgin
TV★ 6.8
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Margot Brenner
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Lie
1973
as Anna
TV★ 7.0
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Kay Lewiston
TV★ 7.0
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
TV★ 7.4
Ghost Story
1972
as Beth
MOVIE
That Quiet Earth
1972
as The Woman
MOVIE★ 4.5
Secrets
1971
as Beatrice
TV★ 7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
TV★ 6.4
Medical Center
1969
TV★ 4.8
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
as Marci Boyle
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Rain People
1969
as Natalie Ravenna
TV★ 7.0
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Barbara
MOVIE★ 7.3
Filmmaker
1968
as Self (uncredited)
TV
The Jazz Age
1968
as Emily Castleton
MOVIE★ 6.0
Petulia
1968
as Polo
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Counterfeit Killer
1968
as Angie Peterson
MOVIE★ 6.6
Shadow Over Elveron
1968
as Joanne Tregaskis
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Outsider
1967
as Peggy Leydon
TV★ 6.9
The Invaders
1967
as Margaret Cook
MOVIE★ 4.8
Dutchman
1966
as Lula
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Group
1966
as Polly
TV★ 4.2
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as The Woman - Joyce
MOVIE★ 5.6
Flight from Ashiya
1964
as Caroline Gordon / Stevenson
TV★ 5.9
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
TV★ 7.3
The Fugitive
1963
as Jane Washburn
TV★ 7.8
The Outer Limits
1963
as Noelle Anderson
TV★ 8.3
Arrest and Trial
1963
as Rhoda Waggner
TV★ 7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TV★ 6.5
The Virginian
1962
as Susan Morrow
MOVIE★ 5.3
House of Women
1962
as Erica Hayden
MOVIE★ 6.8
Sweet Bird of Youth
1962
as Heavenly Finley
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Couch
1962
as Terry Ames
TV★ 5.7
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
TV★ 6.3
The Defenders
1961
as Bethany Windell
TV
The Roaring 20's
1960
TV★ 6.3
Surfside 6
1960
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960
as Reenie Flood
MOVIE
The Shape of the River
1960
as Susy Clemens
MOVIE★ 6.3
Ice Palace
1960
as Grace Kennedy
TV★ 5.6
Hawaiian Eye
1959
TV★ 6.0
Bourbon Street Beat
1959
MOVIE★ 5.6
Five Gates to Hell
1959
as Sister Maria
TV★ 5.3
Johnny Staccato
1959
TV★ 7.2
Rawhide
1959
as Jennie Cooper
TV★ 7.2
77 Sunset Strip
1958
as Mari Ellen Taylor
TV★ 5.8
Lawman
1958
as Tendis Weston
TV★ 5.7
Naked City
1958
as Kathy Meigs
TV★ 6.0
The Texan
1958
TV★ 6.0
Bronco
1958
TV★ 7.0
Buckskin
1958
as Mrs. Newcomb
TV★ 4.4
The Restless Gun
1957
as Heide Ritter
TV★ 6.9
Maverick
1957
as Nancy Powers
TV
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner
TV★ 5.3
Matinee Theater
1955
TV★ 7.0
The Oscars
1953
as Self
TV★ 8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Georgie Elgin
TV★ 7.0
The Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self
TV★ 7.0
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee