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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 5, 1936
Died
April 22, 2020
Place of Birth
Goessel, Kansas, USA
Also Known As
- Shirley Enola Knight
Shirley Knight
0.6 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
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Leanne Cross
Periphery
2018
6.0
Mrs. Colvins
The Missing Girl
2015
5.2
Mom
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
2015
5.1
Gramma
Mercy
2014
5.9
Marie
Redwood Highway
2013
5.0
Jane Redding
Elevator
2013
6.1
Ilene Rochlin
Our Idiot Brother
2011
7.2
Grandma Sam
Listen to Your Heart
2010
7.3
Loretta
Hot in Cleveland
2010
Credits
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
2021
0.0
Periphery
as Leanne Cross
2018
0.0
The Missing Girl
as Mrs. Colvins
2015
6.0
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
as Mom
2015
5.2
Mercy
as Gramma
2014
5.1
Redwood Highway
as Marie
2013
5.9
Elevator
as Jane Redding
2013
5.0
Our Idiot Brother
as Ilene Rochlin
2011
6.1
Listen to Your Heart
as Grandma Sam
2010
7.2
Hot in Cleveland
as Loretta
2010
7.3
Drop Dead Diva
as Millie Carlson
2009
7.7
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
as Dot Nadeau
2009
5.8
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
as Mom
2009
5.4
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Not Fade Away
as Diane
2008
0.0
The Other Side of the Tracks
as Helen
2008
4.2
Open Window
as Ann
2006
5.3
Love and Debate
as Lea
2006
3.3
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Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
as Self
2006
0.0
The Unit
2006
7.3
Grandma's Boy
as Bea
2006
6.5
Sexual Life
as Joanne
2005
4.6
House
as Georgia Adams
2004
8.6
Desperate Housewives
as Phyllis Van De Kamp
2004
7.9
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Sudbury
as Aunt Jet
2004
5.7
A House on a Hill
as Mercedes Mayfield
2003
0.0
Mrs. Ashboro's Cat
as Mrs. Ashboro
2003
5.4
Cold Case
as Dottie
2003
7.8
Fly Cherry
as Miss Christina
2003
5.5
Shadow Realm
as Mrs. Finch
2002
3.5
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
as Necie Kelleher
2002
6.1
P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
as Aunt Claire
2002
4.0
The Salton Sea
as Nancy Plummer
2002
6.6
Crossing Jordan
as Frances Littleton
2001
7.2
Angel Eyes
as Elanora Davis
2001
6.1
My Louisiana Sky
as Jewel Ramsey
2001
6.2
75 Degrees in July
as Jo Beth Anderson
2000
6.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Dr. Wharton
1999
7.9
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Rose Granville
1999
7.9
A Marriage of Convenience
as Harriet Winslow
1998
5.5
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Maggie Winters
as Estelle Winters
1998
10.0
A Father for Brittany
as Donna Minkowitz
1998
7.5
Significant Others
1998
0.0
The Wedding
as Gram (Miss Caroline)
1998
8.3
As Good as It Gets
as Beverly Connelly
1997
7.4
Convictions
as Margaret
1997
6.0
Ally McBeal
as Helen Apple
1997
6.6
Little Boy Blue
as Doris Knight
1997
6.0
Somebody Is Waiting
as Irma
1996
2.0
Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story
as Joan Hart
1996
7.2
Mary & Tim
as Esther
1996
5.5
The Uninvited
as Delia
1996
5.3
If These Walls Could Talk
as Mary Donnelly
1996
6.6
Diabolique
as Edie Danziger
1996
5.5
A Promise to Carolyn
as Jolene Maggart
1996
7.1
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
as Sally Ann
1996
0.0
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
as Peggy Buckey
1995
7.0
Stuart Saves His Family
as Mom
1995
5.2
VR.5
as Dr. Hearst
1995
6.7
Children of the Dust
as Aunt Bertha
1995
7.0
Cybill
as Loretta Bennett
1995
5.8
Dad, the Angel & Me
as Betty
1995
6.2
Death in Venice, CA
as Mona Dickens
1994
4.3
ER
as Mrs. Burke
1994
7.8
Color of Night
as Edith Niedelmeyer
1994
5.7
A Part of the Family
as Martha
1994
0.0
The Yarn Princess
as Esther
1994
6.4
Baby Brokers
as Sylvia
1994
6.2
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Benders
as Donna
1994
0.0
🎬
The Secret Life of Houses
as Aunt Fergie
1994
0.0
A Mother's Revenge
as Bess Warden
1993
4.3
NYPD Blue
as Agnes Cantwell
1993
7.0
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Angel Falls
as Edie Wren Cox
1993
8.0
When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn
as Edna Larson
1993
1.0
To Save a Child
as Rinda Larson
1991
3.0
Shadow of a Doubt
as Helen Potter
1991
5.2
Bump in the Night
as Katie Leonard
1991
5.8
Law & Order
as Melanie Cullen
1990
7.4
thirtysomething
1987
6.1
L.A. Law
as Belinda Collins
1986
7.0
Matlock
as Phyllis Todd
1986
7.1
The Equalizer
as Kay
1985
7.1
The Sweet Scent of Death
as Ann Fairfax Denver
1984
6.0
With Intent to Kill
as Edna Reinecker
1984
3.0
Murder, She Wrote
as Grace Fenton
1984
7.5
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
as Ann Denver
1984
6.4
The Sender
as Jerolyn
1982
5.6
Kennedy's Children
as Carla
1982
0.0
Endless Love
as Ann
1981
5.7
Nurse
as Sylvia Dennis
1981
5.0
Playing for Time
as Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
1980
6.8
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
as Hannah Meredith
1979
5.1
Tales of the Unexpected
as Elizabeth Bourdon
1979
6.7
Champions: A Love Story
as Barbara Harlich
1979
5.8
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
as Genna Kudirka
1978
6.0
21 Hours at Munich
as Anneliese Graes
1976
6.2
Return to Earth
as Joan Aldrin
1976
0.0
Medical Story
as Phyllis Lenahan
1975
0.0
Medical Story
1975
3.0
Friendly Persuasion
as Eliza Birdwell
1975
0.0
Please Stand by for Murder
1975
0.0
Juggernaut
as Barbara Banister
1974
6.2
The Manhunter
1974
5.0
The Country Girl
as Georgie Elgin
1974
0.0
The Lie
as Anna
1973
6.0
Barnaby Jones
as Kay Lewiston
1973
6.9
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.0
Ghost Story
as Beth
1972
7.1
🎬
That Quiet Earth
as The Woman
1972
0.0
Secrets
as Beatrice
1971
4.3
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
Medical Center
1969
6.1
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
as Marci Boyle
1969
4.0
The Rain People
as Natalie Ravenna
1969
6.5
Filmmaker
as Self (uncredited)
1968
7.1
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The Jazz Age
as Emily Castleton
1968
0.0
Petulia
as Polo
1968
5.9
The Counterfeit Killer
as Angie Peterson
1968
0.0
Shadow Over Elveron
as Joanne Tregaskis
1968
6.5
The Outsider
as Peggy Leydon
1967
6.0
The Invaders
as Margaret Cook
1967
6.8
Dutchman
as Lula
1966
4.6
The Group
as Polly
1966
5.6
Flight from Ashiya
as Caroline Gordon / Stevenson
1964
5.0
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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
5.7
The Fugitive
as Jane Washburn
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
as Mona Ross
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
as Janice Pruitt
1963
7.2
The Outer Limits
as Noelle Anderson
1963
7.8
Arrest and Trial
as Rhoda Waggner
1963
7.7
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Virginian
as Susan Morrow
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Clara Malone
1962
6.4
House of Women
as Erica Hayden
1962
4.9
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Heavenly Finley
1962
6.8
The Couch
as Terry Ames
1962
6.1
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
3.5
The Defenders
as Bethany Windell
1961
5.9
The Roaring 20's
1960
0.0
Surfside 6
1960
5.0
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
as Reenie Flood
1960
6.4
Ice Palace
as Grace Kennedy
1960
5.8
Hawaiian Eye
1959
5.2
Bourbon Street Beat
1959
5.0
Five Gates to Hell
as Sister Maria
1959
4.8
Johnny Staccato
1959
5.0
Rawhide
as Jennie Cooper
1959
7.2
77 Sunset Strip
as Mari Ellen Taylor
1958
6.7
Lawman
as Tendis Weston
1958
5.6
Naked City
as Kathy Meigs
1958
5.5
The Texan
1958
5.5
Bronco
1958
5.9
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Buckskin
as Mrs. Newcomb
1958
5.5
The Restless Gun
as Heide Ritter
1957
3.0
Maverick
as Nancy Powers
1957
6.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Georgie Elgin
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Mrs. Potter
1951
8.6
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2