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.
Filmography Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
Self
Details The Missing Girl
2015
Mrs. Colvins
Details Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
2015
Mom
Details Our Idiot Brother
2011
Ilene Rochlin
Details Listen to Your Heart
2010
Grandma Sam
Details The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009
Dot Nadeau
Details Paul Blart: Mall Cop
2009
Mom
Details The Other Side of the Tracks
2008
Helen
Details Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
2006
Self
Details A House on a Hill
2003
Mercedes Mayfield
Details Mrs. Ashboro's Cat
2003
Mrs. Ashboro
Details Fly Cherry
2003
Miss Christina
Details Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002
Necie Kelleher
Details P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
2002
Aunt Claire
Details The Salton Sea
2002
Nancy Plummer
Details Angel Eyes
2001
Elanora Davis
Details My Louisiana Sky
2001
Jewel Ramsey
Details 75 Degrees in July
2000
Jo Beth Anderson
Details A Marriage of Convenience
1998
Harriet Winslow
Details A Father for Brittany
1998
Donna Minkowitz
Details The Wedding
1998
Gram (Miss Caroline)
Details As Good as It Gets
1997
Beverly Connelly
Details Little Boy Blue
1997
Doris Knight
Details Somebody Is Waiting
1996
Irma
Details Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story
1996
Joan Hart
Details If These Walls Could Talk
1996
Mary Donnelly
Details Diabolique
1996
Edie Danziger
Details A Promise to Carolyn
1996
Jolene Maggart
Details Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
1996
Sally Ann
Details Indictment: The McMartin Trial
1995
Peggy Buckey
Details Stuart Saves His Family
1995
Mom
Details Dad, the Angel & Me
1995
Betty
Details Death in Venice, CA
1994
Mona Dickens
Details Color of Night
1994
Edith Niedelmeyer
Details A Part of the Family
1994
Martha
Details The Yarn Princess
1994
Esther
Details The Secret Life of Houses
1994
Aunt Fergie
Details A Mother's Revenge
1993
Bess Warden
Details When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn
1993
Edna Larson
Details To Save a Child
1991
Rinda Larson
Details Shadow of a Doubt
1991
Helen Potter
Details Bump in the Night
1991
Katie Leonard
Details The Sweet Scent of Death
1984
Ann Fairfax Denver
Details With Intent to Kill
1984
Edna Reinecker
Details Kennedy's Children
1982
Carla
Details Playing for Time
1980
Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
Details Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
Hannah Meredith
Details Champions: A Love Story
1979
Barbara Harlich
Details The Defection of Simas Kudirka
1978
Genna Kudirka
Details 21 Hours at Munich
1976
Anneliese Graes
Details Return to Earth
1976
Joan Aldrin
Details Medical Story
1975
Phyllis Lenahan
Details Friendly Persuasion
1975
Eliza Birdwell
Details Please Stand by for Murder
1975
Character TBA
Details Juggernaut
1974
Barbara Banister
Details The Country Girl
1974
Georgie Elgin
Details The Rain People
1969
Natalie Ravenna
Details Filmmaker
1968
Self (uncredited)
Details The Counterfeit Killer
1968
Angie Peterson
Details Shadow Over Elveron
1968
Joanne Tregaskis
Details The Outsider
1967
Peggy Leydon
Details Flight from Ashiya
1964
Caroline Gordon / Stevenson
Details House of Women
1962
Erica Hayden
Details Sweet Bird of Youth
1962
Heavenly Finley
Details The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960
Reenie Flood
Details Ice Palace
1960
Grace Kennedy
Details Five Gates to Hell
1959
Sister Maria
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