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Shirley Knight at an event for Les divins secrets (2002)

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Shirley Knight

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  • Won Broadway's 1976 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Kennedy's Children". She was also nominated in 1997 as Best Actress (Play) for "The Young Man from Atlanta".
  • She and her daughter Kaitlin Hopkins both made guest appearances on New York - Police judiciaire (1990).
  • She was nominated for a 1977 Joseph Jefferson Award for Guest Artist for her performance in the play, "The Landscape of the Body", at the Academy Festival Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
  • She received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in the British film Dutchman (1966).
  • She was the daughter of Virginia (Webster) and Noel Johnson Knight, an oil company executive. She was raised in Mitchell, Kansas, and Lyons, KS.
  • Was 6 months pregnant with her daughter Sophie C. Hopkins when she completed filming on Les gens de la pluie (1969).
  • Appeared in the L.A. stage and British film version of Dutchman (1966), a racial drama, which was produced by her then-husband Eugene Persson. She won the Venice Film Festival award for her cinematic performance.
  • Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Sophie C. Hopkins to perform in the Broadway play "The Watering Place".
  • Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Kaitlin Hopkins to perform in the Broadway play "The Three Sisters".
  • She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village, New York City.
  • Has two daughters: Kaitlin Hopkins and Sophie C. Hopkins. Ex-mother-in-law of Daniel Passer.
  • 1959 Deb Star.
  • She was a lifelong liberal Democrat.
  • The runaway story of her character Natalie Ravenna in Les gens de la pluie (1969) inspired the character Dolors (Montse Caminal) in the short film Silenci (2007).
  • Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes returned to her family.

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