Shirley Knight

from Goessel, Kansas, USA

Artwork for As Good as It GetsImage of Shirley Knight

Biography

Shirley Enola Knight 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.

Timeline

2021Aged 85

  • Poster for Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

    Self

2018Aged 82

  • Poster for Periphery

    Leanne Cross

2015Aged 79

  • Poster for Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

    Mom

  • Poster for The Missing Girl

    Mrs. Colvins

2014Aged 78

  • Poster for Mercy

    Mercy

2013Aged 77

  • Poster for Elevator

    Jane Redding

  • Poster for Redwood Highway

    Marie

2011Aged 75

  • Poster for Our Idiot Brother

    Ilene Rochlin

2010Aged 74

  • Poster for Listen to Your Heart

    Grandma Sam

2009Aged 73

  • Poster for Paul Blart: Mall Cop

    Mom

  • Poster for The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

    Dot Nadeau

2008Aged 72

2006Aged 70

2005Aged 69

  • Poster for Sexual Life

    Joanne

2004Aged 68

  • Poster for Sudbury

    Aunt Jet

2003Aged 67

  • Poster for Fly Cherry

    Miss Christina

  • Poster for Mrs. Ashboro's Cat

    Mrs. Ashboro

  • Poster for A House on a Hill

    Mercedes Mayfield

2002Aged 66

  • Poster for The Salton Sea

    Nancy Plummer

  • Poster for P.S. Your Cat is Dead!

    Aunt Claire

  • Poster for Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

    Necie

  • Poster for Shadow Realm

    Mrs. Finch

2001Aged 65

  • Poster for My Louisiana Sky

    Jewel Ramsey

  • Poster for Angel Eyes

    Elanora Davis

2000Aged 64

  • Poster for 75 Degrees in July

    Jo Beth Anderson

1998Aged 62

  • Poster for The Wedding

    Gram (Miss Caroline)

  • Poster for A Father for Brittany

    Donna Minkowitz

  • Poster for A Marriage of Convenience

    Harriet Winslow

1997Aged 61

  • Poster for Little Boy Blue

    Doris Knight

  • Poster for Convictions

    Margaret

  • Poster for As Good as It Gets

    Beverly Connelly

1996Aged 60

  • Poster for Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden

    Sally Ann

  • Poster for A Promise to Carolyn

    Jolene Maggart

  • Poster for Diabolique

    Edie Danziger

  • Poster for If These Walls Could Talk

    Mary Donnelly

  • Poster for The Uninvited

    Delia

  • Poster for Mary & Tim

    Esther

  • Poster for Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story

    Joan Hart

  • Poster for Somebody Is Waiting

    Irma

1995Aged 59

  • Poster for Dad, the Angel & Me

    Betty

  • Poster for Stuart Saves His Family

    Mom

  • Poster for Indictment: The McMartin Trial

    Peggy Buckey

1994Aged 58

1993Aged 57

  • Poster for When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn

    Edna Larson

  • Poster for A Mother's Revenge

    Bess Warden

1991Aged 55

  • Poster for Bump in the Night

    Katie Leonard

  • Poster for Shadow of a Doubt

    Helen Potter

  • Poster for To Save a Child

    Rinda Larson

1984Aged 48

  • Poster for With Intent to Kill

    Edna Reinecker

  • Poster for The Sweet Scent of Death

    Ann Fairfax Denver

1982Aged 46

  • Poster for Kennedy's Children

    Carla

  • Poster for The Sender

    Jerolyn

1981Aged 45

  • Poster for Endless Love

    Ann

1980Aged 44

  • Poster for Playing for Time

    Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel

1979Aged 43

  • Poster for Champions: A Love Story

    Barbara Harlich

  • Poster for Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

    Hannah Meredith

1978Aged 42

  • Poster for The Defection of Simas Kudirka

    Genna Kudirka

1976Aged 40

  • Poster for Return to Earth

    Joan Aldrin

  • Poster for 21 Hours at Munich

    Anneliese Graes

1975Aged 39

  • Poster for Please Stand by for Murder

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Friendly Persuasion

    Eliza Birdwell

  • Poster for Medical Story

    Phyllis Lenahan

1974Aged 38

  • Poster for The Country Girl

    Georgie Elgin

  • Poster for Juggernaut

    Barbara Banister

1973Aged 37

  • Poster for The Lie

    Anna

1972Aged 36

1971Aged 35

  • Poster for Secrets

    Beatrice

1969Aged 33

  • Poster for The Rain People

    Natalie Ravenna

1968Aged 32

  • Poster for Shadow Over Elveron

    Joanne Tregaskis

  • Poster for The Counterfeit Killer

    Angie Peterson

  • Poster for Petulia

    Polo

  • Poster for Filmmaker

    Self (uncredited)

1967Aged 31

  • Poster for The Outsider

    Peggy Leydon

1966Aged 30

  • Poster for The Group

    Polly

  • Poster for Dutchman

    Lula

1964Aged 28

  • Poster for Flight from Ashiya

    Caroline Gordon / Stevenson

1962Aged 26

  • Poster for The Couch

    Terry Ames

  • Poster for Sweet Bird of Youth

    Heavenly Finley

  • Poster for House of Women

    Erica Hayden

1960Aged 24

1959Aged 23

  • Poster for Five Gates to Hell

    Sister Maria

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