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