Shirley Knight

Infobox actor
name = Shirley Knight


birthname = Shirley Enola Knight
birthdate = birth date and age|1936|07|5
location = Goessel, Kansas
othername = Shirley Knight Hopkins
spouse = John Hopkins 1969-1998 Gene Persson 1959-1969 [ [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987838.html?categoryId=25&cs=1 "Variety", June 20, 2008] ]
yearsactive = 1959-present
homepage =
notable role = Phyllis Van De Kamp in "Desperate Housewives"
Mrs. Ashboro in "Ghost Cat"
Elenora Davis in "Angel Eyes"
academyawards =
emmyawards = Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie
"" (1995)
tonyawards = Best Featured Actress in a Play
"Kennedy's Children" (1976)

Shirley Knight (born July 5, 1936 in Goessel, Kansas) is an award-winning 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".

Knight's other feature films include Sidney Lumet's "The Group" (1966), Richard Lester's "Petulia" (1968), Francis Ford Coppola's "The Rain People" (1969), and "As Good As It Gets" (1997).

Knight's theatre credits include "The Three Sisters" (1964), "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" (1966), "Kennedy's Children" (1975), which earned her the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, and "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" (1979). She was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play twice, for "Landscape of the Body" and "The Young Man from Atlanta", which also garnered her a Tony nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Play.

Knight's many television credits include "Maggie Winters", "L.A. Law", "Murder, She Wrote", "Law & Order", ', "House M.D.", "Crossing Jordan", "Cold Case", and "ER", among others, in addition to many television movies, including ', for which she won both the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. She also appeared in the first segment of "If These Walls Could Talk", the HBO series about the various faces of abortion co-written and directed by Nancy Savoca, and has played the recurring role of Bree Hodge's mother-in-law Phyllis Van De Kamp on "Desperate Housewives".

Knight was married twice, to Gene Persson from 1959 until they divorced in 1969, and to John Hopkins from 1969 until his death in 1998. She has two daughters, actress Kaitlin and television writer Sophie.

Additional filmography

*"Flight from Ashiya" (1964)
*"Endless Love" (1981)
*"Color of Night" (1994)
*"Little Boy Blue" (1997)
*"Angel Eyes" (2001)
*"Ghost Cat" (2003)
*"Locked In" (2005)
*"Sexual Life" (2005)
*"Open Window" (2006)
*"Grandma's Boy" (2006)
*"Mall Cop" (2008)
*"The Other Side of the Tracks" (2008)

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Persondata
NAME= Knight, Shirley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Knight, Shirley Enola
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actress
DATE OF BIRTH= July 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH= Goessel, Kansas, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=