Shirley Knight
ActingAlso Known As
Shirley Enola Knight
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.
Movies
(94 total)
As Good as It Gets
as Beverly Connelly
Our Idiot Brother
as Ilene Rochlin
Grandma's Boy
as Bea
Color of Night
as Edith Niedelmeyer
Angel Eyes
as Elanora Davis
The Salton Sea
as Nancy Plummer
Diabolique
as Edie Danziger
Mercy
as Mercy
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
as Necie Kelleher
Endless Love
as Ann
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
as Dot Nadeau
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
as Hannah Meredith
Juggernaut
as Barbara Banister
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Heavenly Finley
Elevator
as Jane Redding
Listen to Your Heart
as Grandma Sam
If These Walls Could Talk
as Mary Donnelly
The Rain People
as Natalie Ravenna
TV Shows
(68 total)
House
as Georgia Adams
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Dr. Wharton
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Rose Granville
Desperate Housewives
as Phyllis Van De Kamp
ER
as Mrs. Burke
Law & Order
as Melanie Cullen
Cold Case
as Dottie
Murder, She Wrote
as Grace Fenton
Ally McBeal
as Helen Apple
Drop Dead Diva
as Millie Carlson
NYPD Blue
as Agnes Cantwell
Crossing Jordan
as Frances Littleton
The Outer Limits
as Noelle Anderson
Matlock
as Phyllis Todd
Hot in Cleveland
as Loretta
The Oscars
as Self
L.A. Law
as Belinda Collins