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

• 2018Periphery — Leanne Cross
• 2015Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 — Mom
• 2015The Missing Girl — Mrs. Colvins
• 2014Mercy — Mercy
• 2013Elevator — Jane Redding
• 2013Redwood Highway — Marie
• 2011Our Idiot Brother — Ilene Rochlin
• Hot in Cleveland — Loretta
• 2010Listen to Your Heart — Grandma Sam
• Drop Dead Diva — Millie Carlson
• 2009Paul Blart: Mall Cop — Mom
• 2009The Private Lives of Pippa Lee — Dot Nadeau
• 2008Not Fade Away — Diane
• 2008The Other Side of the Tracks — Helen
• 2006Grandma's Boy — Bea
• 2006Love and Debate — Lea
• 2006Open Window — Ann
• The Unit — Mrs. Gaffney
• 2005Sexual Life — Joanne
• Desperate Housewives — Phyllis Van De Kamp
• House — Georgia Adams
• 2004Sudbury — Aunt Jet
• 2003A House on a Hill — Mercedes Mayfield
• Cold Case — Dottie
• 2003Fly Cherry — Miss Christina
• 2003Mrs. Ashboro's Cat — Mrs. Ashboro
• 2002Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood — Necie
• 2002P.S. Your Cat is Dead! — Aunt Claire
• 2002Shadow Realm — Mrs. Finch
• 2002The Salton Sea — Nancy Plummer
• 2001Angel Eyes — Elanora Davis
• Crossing Jordan — Frances Littleton
• 2001My Louisiana Sky — Jewel Ramsey
• 200075 Degrees in July — Jo Beth Anderson
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Dr. Wharton, Rose Granville
• 1998A Father for Brittany — Donna Minkowitz
• 1998A Marriage of Convenience — Harriet Winslow
• 1998Little Boy Blue — Doris Knight
• Maggie Winters — Estelle Winters
• Significant Others
• 1998The Wedding — Gram (Miss Caroline)
• Ally McBeal — Helen Apple
• 1997As Good as It Gets — Beverly Connelly
• 1997Convictions — Margaret
• 1996A Promise to Carolyn — Jolene Maggart
• 1996Diabolique — Edie Danziger
• 1996Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story — Joan Hart
• 1996If These Walls Could Talk — Mary Donnelly
• 1996Mary & Tim — Esther
• 1996Somebody Is Waiting — Irma
• 1996Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden — Sally Ann
• 1996The Uninvited — Delia
• Children of the Dust — Aunt Bertha
• Cybill — Loretta Bennett
• 1995Dad, the Angel & Me — Betty
• 1995Indictment: The McMartin Trial — Peggy Buckey
• 1995Stuart Saves His Family — Mom
• VR.5 — Dr. Hearst
• 1994A Part of the Family — Martha
• 1994Baby Brokers — Sylvia
• 1994Benders — Donna
• 1994Color of Night — Edith Niedelmeyer
• 1994Death in Venice, CA — Mona Dickens
• ER — Mrs. Burke
• 1994Hoggs' Heaven — Mom
• 1994The Secret Life of Houses — Aunt Fergie
• 1994The Yarn Princess — Esther
• 1993A Mother's Revenge — Bess Warden
• Angel Falls — Edie Wren Cox
• NYPD Blue — Agnes Cantwell
• 1993When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn — Edna Larson
• 1991Bump in the Night — Katie Leonard
• 1991Shadow of a Doubt — Helen Potter
• 1991To Save a Child — Rinda Larson
• Law & Order — Melanie Cullen
• thirtysomething
• L.A. Law — Belinda Collins
• Matlock — Phyllis Todd
• The Equalizer — Kay
• Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense — Ann Denver
• Murder, She Wrote — Grace Fenton
• 1984The Sweet Scent of Death — Ann Fairfax Denver
• 1984With Intent to Kill — Edna Reinecker
• 1982Kennedy's Children — Carla
• 1982The Sender — Jerolyn
• 1981Endless Love — Ann
• Nurse — Sylvia Dennis
• 1980Playing for Time — Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
• 1979Beyond the Poseidon Adventure — Hannah Meredith
• 1979Champions: A Love Story — Barbara Harlich
• Tales of the Unexpected — Elizabeth Bourdon
• 1978The Defection of Simas Kudirka — Genna Kudirka
• 197621 Hours at Munich — Anneliese Graes
• 1976Return to Earth — Joan Aldrin
• 1975Friendly Persuasion — Eliza Birdwell
• 1975Medical Story — Phyllis Lenahan
• Medical Story — Phyllis Lenahan
• 1975Please Stand by for Murder
• 1974Juggernaut — Barbara Banister
• 1974The Country Girl — Georgie Elgin
• The Manhunter
• Barnaby Jones — Kay Lewiston
• Orson Welles' Great Mysteries — Margot Brenner
• 1973The Lie — Anna
• Ghost Story — Beth
• 1972That Quiet Earth — The Woman
• The Streets of San Francisco
• Alias Smith and Jones
• 1971Secrets — Beatrice
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Barbara
• Medical Center
• The Bold Ones: The New Doctors — Marci Boyle
• 1969The Rain People — Natalie Ravenna
• 1968Petulia — Polo
• 1968Shadow Over Elveron — Joanne Tregaskis
• 1968The Counterfeit Killer — Angie Peterson
• The Jazz Age — Emily Castleton
• The Invaders — Margaret Cook
• 1967The Outsider — Peggy Leydon
• 1966Dutchman — Lula
• 1966The Group — Polly
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — The Woman - Joyce
• 1964Flight from Ashiya — Caroline Gordon / Stevenson
• Arrest and Trial — Rhoda Waggner
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
• The Fugitive — Jane Washburn, Mona Ross, Janice Pruitt
• The Outer Limits — Noelle Anderson
• 1962House of Women — Erica Hayden
• 1962Sweet Bird of Youth — Heavenly Finley
• 1962The Couch — Terry Ames
• The Virginian — Susan Morrow, Clara Malone
• Target: The Corruptors!
• The Defenders — Bethany Windell
• 1960Ice Palace — Grace Kennedy
• Surfside 6
• 1960The Dark at the Top of the Stairs — Reenie Flood
• The Roaring 20's
• 1960The Shape of the River — Susy Clemens
• Bourbon Street Beat
• 1959Five Gates to Hell — Sister Maria
• Hawaiian Eye
• Johnny Staccato
• Rawhide — Jennie Cooper
• 77 Sunset Strip — Mari Ellen Taylor
• Bronco — Molly Durrock
• Buckskin — Mrs. Newcomb
• Lawman — Tendis Weston
• Naked City — Kathy Meigs
• The Texan
• Maverick — Nancy Powers
• The Restless Gun — Heide Ritter
• Matinee Theater
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Georgie Elgin, Mrs. Potter

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self
• 2006Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time — Self
• 1968Filmmaker — Self (uncredited)
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Winner, Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee
• The Oscars — Self
• The Bob Hope Show — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee