Shirley Knight
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Shirley Knight Hopkins (born July 5, 1936) is an American actress who has appeared in more than 50 feature films, made-for-television films, television series, and Broadway and Off-Broadway productions in her career as lead and character roles.
She is a member of the Actors Studio. Knight has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Dark at the top of the Stairs (1960) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962).
She appeared in several Hollywood films, including The Couch (1962), House of Women (1962), and The Rain People (1969), among other things in the 1960s.
For her work in the British film Dutchman (1966), she was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. In 1976, Knight received a Tony Award for her role in Kennedy's Children.
She appeared in several films, including Endless Love (1981), As Good as It Gets (1997), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2001), and Grandma's Boy (2006).
Knight eight times was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award (winning three times), and she has also been given a Golden Globe Award for her television appearances.
Early life
Knight was born in Goessel, Kansas, as the niece of Virginia (née Webster), 1916-1977) and Noel Johnson Knight (1913-1985), an oil company executive. She had a brother and a sister. She spent her youth in Mitchell, Kansas, and later lived in Lyons, Kansas, where she graduated from high school. At age 11, she began training to be an opera singer.
She wrote a short story that was published in a national newspaper at the age of 14. Knights later attended Phillips University and Wichita State University. She began filming in 1959 after attending the Pasadena Theatre School. She then moved to New York and began her theater career. She studied at HB Studio with Jeff Corey, Erwin Piscator, Lee Strasberg, and Uta Hagen.
Personal life and death
From 1959 to 1969, Knight was married to American actor and producer Gene Persson from 1959 to their divorce in 1969. They had one child, actress Kaitlin Hopkins (born February 1, 1964).
Her second marriage was to English writer John Hopkins from 1969 to 1998, when he died in 1998. Sophie C. Hopkins, a primary school teacher, was one of their children. Persson and Hopkins raised her daughter together, Persson and Persson.
Knight died of natural causes on April 22, 2020 at her daughter Kaitlin Hopkins' house in San Marcos, Texas. She was 83.
Career
The Group (1966), The Dutchman (1968), Petulia (1969), Secrets (1969), The Rain People (1978), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979), Mall Cop (2010), Our Idot Brother (2011), and Elevator (2011), in which she plays one of many people trapped in a Wall Street elevator with a bomber, are among Knight's feature films.
Mrs. Newcomb appeared in 20 of the 29 episodes of the television show Buckskin in 1958 and 1959, with Tom Nolan, Sally Brophy, and Mike Road. She became a Warner Brothers Television contract actress who was on breaks from filming feature films, appearing in television shows such as Maverick, Bourbon Street Beat, Sugarfoot, Cheyenne, and The Roaring 20s.
Three Sisters (1964), We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1966), Kennedy's Children (1975), which earned her the Tony Award for Best 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, for which she received a second Tony nomination. She appeared in Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are (2009), Arthur Laurents' first play.
Among other things, Target: The Corruptors, The Eleventh Hour, The Outer Limits, The Story of a Man Who Was Never Born," The Storyteller, The Invaders, The Infernal Murder, She Wrote, Law & Order, Cleveland, among other things.
She appeared in several television films, including Playing For Time and Indictment: The McMartin Trial. She was nominated for both Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Achievement by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television. She received an Emmy Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series in 1988 for her guest appearance in thirtysomething. In 1995, she received an Emmy Award for her appearance in the NYPD Blue episode "Large Mouth Bass."
She appeared in the first segment of If These Walls Could Talk. She appeared on Desperate Housewives on several occasions.