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Shirley Enola Knight (born
July 5,
1936,
Goessel, Kansas) is an American actress who made her film debut in 1959. The following year she was nominated for an
Oscar as
Best Supporting Actress for her performance in
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and again, in 1962, for her role as
Paul Newman's sweetheart in
Sweet Bird of Youth.
She also appeared in
Sidney Lumet's
The Group (1966),
Richard Lester's
Petulia (1968) and
Francis Ford Coppola's
The Rain People (1969). Her
theatre credits include
Come Back, Little Sheba,
We Have Always Lived in the Castle,
The Three Sisters, and
The Vagina Monologues.
In the
1960s she abandoned Hollywood in favor of the
Broadway stage, but she's since returned to film as
Helen Hunt's mother in
As Good As It Gets, and to television in a number of programs, including as
Faith Ford's mother in Ford's short-lived sitcom
Maggie Winters, and on series such as
Murder, She Wrote,
Law & Order,, and
Desperate Housewives as
Bree Hodge's mother-in-law Phyllis Van De Kamp. She also made a guest appearance in
House M.D., season 1, episode 8, as an elderly patient. But perhaps her most impressive role was in the first segment of
If These Walls Could Talk with
Demi Moore, co-written and directed by
Nancy Savoca. The series about the various faces of abortion had the then highest rating of any HBO series.
She has two daughters,
Kaitlin Hopkins and
Sophie Hopkins, by two different marriages; both are actors. Sophie is daughter of the writer
John Hopkins.
Knight will once again join the recurring role as Bree's former mother in law In
Desperate Housewives in season four.
Filmography
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