Shirley Knight

Actor Jul 5 (died age 83) Goessel, Kansas, USA 1944–2021 (77 year career)

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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

Film

As Good as It Gets

Beverly Connelly

Film

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Mom

Film

Grandma's Boy

Bea

Film

Our Idiot Brother

Ilene Rochlin

Film

The Salton Sea

Nancy Plummer

Film

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

Mom

Film

Angel Eyes

Elanora Davis

Film

Color of Night

Edith Niedelmeyer

Filmography

Acting (157)

Movies (93)

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2021

as Self

Periphery

2018

as Leanne Cross

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

as Mom

The Missing Girl

as Mrs. Colvins

Mercy

as Mercy

Elevator

as Jane Redding

Redwood Highway

as Marie

Our Idiot Brother

as Ilene Rochlin

Listen to Your Heart

as Grandma Sam

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

as Mom

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

2009

as Dot Nadeau

5.9

Not Fade Away

2008

as Diane

The Other Side of the Tracks

as Helen

Grandma's Boy

as Bea

Open Window

as Ann

Love and Debate

as Lea

Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time

2006

as Self

Sexual Life

as Joanne

Sudbury

as Aunt Jet

A House on a Hill

as Mercedes Mayfield

Mrs. Ashboro's Cat

as Mrs. Ashboro

Fly Cherry

as Miss Christina

The Salton Sea

as Nancy Plummer

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

2002

as Necie Kelleher

6.1

P.S. Your Cat is Dead!

as Aunt Claire

Shadow Realm

as Mrs. Finch

Angel Eyes

as Elanora Davis

My Louisiana Sky

as Jewel Ramsey

75 Degrees in July

as Jo Beth Anderson

A Marriage of Convenience

1998

as Harriet Winslow

5.5

A Father for Brittany

1998

as Donna Minkowitz

7.5

The Wedding

1998

as Gram (Miss Caroline)

As Good as It Gets

as Beverly Connelly

Little Boy Blue

as Doris Knight

Convictions

as Margaret

Diabolique

as Edie Danziger

Somebody Is Waiting

as Irma

If These Walls Could Talk

as Mary Donnelly

Mary & Tim

as Esther

The Uninvited

as Delia

Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story

as Joan Hart

A Promise to Carolyn

as Jolene Maggart

Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden

1996

as Sally Ann

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

1995

as Peggy Buckey

7.0

Stuart Saves His Family

as Mom

Dad, the Angel & Me

as Betty

Color of Night

as Edith Niedelmeyer

Benders

as Donna

Death in Venice, CA

as Mona Dickens

The Yarn Princess

as Esther

The Secret Life of Houses

1994

as Aunt Fergie

Hoggs' Heaven

1994

as Mom

Baby Brokers

1994

as Sylvia

6.2

A Part of the Family

1994

as Martha

A Mother's Revenge

1993

as Bess Warden

5.1

When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn

as Edna Larson

Bump in the Night

as Katie Leonard

Shadow of a Doubt

as Helen Potter

To Save a Child

as Rinda Larson

The Sweet Scent of Death

1984

as Ann Fairfax Denver

With Intent to Kill

as Edna Reinecker

The Sender

as Jerolyn

Kennedy's Children

as Carla

Endless Love

1981

as Ann

5.7

Playing for Time

1980

as Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel

6.8

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

1979

as Hannah Meredith

5.1

Champions: A Love Story

1979

as Barbara Harlich

5.8

The Defection of Simas Kudirka

as Genna Kudirka

21 Hours at Munich

as Anneliese Graes

Return to Earth

as Joan Aldrin

Medical Story

1975

as Phyllis Lenahan

Friendly Persuasion

1975

as Eliza Birdwell

Please Stand by for Murder

Juggernaut

as Barbara Banister

The Country Girl

as Georgie Elgin

The Lie

1973

as Anna

6.0

That Quiet Earth

1972

as The Woman

Secrets

as Beatrice

The Rain People

as Natalie Ravenna

Petulia

as Polo

Filmmaker

as Self (uncredited)

The Counterfeit Killer

1968

as Angie Peterson

Shadow Over Elveron

as Joanne Tregaskis

The Outsider

as Peggy Leydon

Dutchman

as Lula

The Group

as Polly

Flight from Ashiya

as Caroline Gordon / Stevenson

House of Women

as Erica Hayden

Sweet Bird of Youth

as Heavenly Finley

The Couch

as Terry Ames

Ice Palace

as Grace Kennedy

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

as Reenie Flood

Five Gates to Hell

as Sister Maria

Television (64)

Hot in Cleveland

as Loretta

Drop Dead Diva

as Millie Carlson

The Unit

House

as Georgia Adams

Desperate Housewives

as Phyllis Van De Kamp

Cold Case

as Dottie

Crossing Jordan

as Frances Littleton

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Dr. Wharton

Maggie Winters

as Estelle Winters

Significant Others

Ally McBeal

as Helen Apple

Cybill

as Loretta Bennett

VR.5

as Dr. Hearst

Children of the Dust

as Aunt Bertha

as Mrs. Burke

NYPD Blue

as Agnes Cantwell

Angel Falls

as Edie Wren Cox

Law & Order

as Melanie Cullen

thirtysomething

L.A. Law

as Belinda Collins

Matlock

as Phyllis Todd

The Equalizer

as Kay

Murder, She Wrote

as Grace Fenton

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

as Ann Denver

Nurse

as Sylvia Dennis

Tales of the Unexpected

as Elizabeth Bourdon

Medical Story

The Manhunter

Barnaby Jones

as Kay Lewiston

The Streets of San Francisco

Ghost Story

as Beth

Alias Smith and Jones

Medical Center

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

1969

as Marci Boyle

4.0

The Jazz Age

1968

as Emily Castleton

The Invaders

as Margaret Cook

The Fugitive

as Janice Pruitt

The Outer Limits

as Noelle Anderson

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Arrest and Trial

as Rhoda Waggner

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

The Virginian

as Susan Morrow

The Defenders

as Bethany Windell

Target: The Corruptors!

The Roaring 20's

Surfside 6

Rawhide

as Jennie Cooper

Hawaiian Eye

Johnny Staccato

Bourbon Street Beat

77 Sunset Strip

as Mari Ellen Taylor

Lawman

as Tendis Weston

Bronco

The Texan

Naked City

as Kathy Meigs

Buckskin

as Mrs. Newcomb

Maverick

as Nancy Powers

The Restless Gun

as Heide Ritter

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

Matinee Theater

The Oscars

as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Georgie Elgin

The Bob Hope Show

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee