1. Shirley Knight Hopkins was an American actress who appeared in more than 50 feature films, television films, television series, and Broadway and Off-Broadway productions in her career, playing leading and character roles.
17 Facts About Shirley Knight
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Shirley Knight received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in the British film Dutchman.
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In 1976, Shirley Knight won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Kennedy's Children, a play by Robert Patrick.
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Shirley Knight was born in Goessel, Kansas, the daughter of Virginia and Noel Johnson Shirley Knight, an oil company executive.
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Shirley Knight spent her young life in Mitchell, Kansas, and later lived in Lyons, Kansas, where she graduated from high school.
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Shirley Knight began studying to be an opera singer at age 11.
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Shirley Knight then went to New York and began her theatre career.
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Shirley Knight trained in acting with Jeff Corey, Erwin Piscator, Lee Strasberg, and Uta Hagen at HB Studio.
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Shirley Knight was cast in 1958 and 1959 as Mrs Newcomb in 20 of the 29 episodes of the television series Buckskin, with Tom Nolan, Sally Brophy, and Mike Road.
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Shirley Knight became a Warner Brothers Television contract star who while on breaks from filming feature films appeared in television series such as Maverick, Bourbon Street Beat, Sugarfoot, Cheyenne, and The Roaring 20s.
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Shirley Knight 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 another Tony nomination.
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Shirley Knight appeared in Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are, an original play by Arthur Laurents.
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Shirley Knight appeared in various television films, including Playing For Time and Indictment: The McMartin Trial.
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Shirley Knight won an Emmy in 1995 for her guest performance in the NYPD Blue episode "Large Mouth Bass".
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Shirley Knight appeared in the first segment of If These Walls Could Talk.
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Shirley Knight was married to American actor and producer Gene Persson from 1959 until their divorce in 1969.
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Shirley Knight died of natural causes on April 22,2020, at age 83, at her daughter Kaitlin Hopkins's home in San Marcos, Texas.