Acting
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.
Highest rated appearances
as Peggy Buckey
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
as Mom
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
as Dot Nadeau
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
as Mom
Not Fade Away
as Diane
The Other Side of the Tracks
as Helen
Open Window
as Ann
Love and Debate
as Lea
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
as Self
Grandma's Boy
as Bea
Sexual Life
as Joanne
Sudbury
as Aunt Jet
A House on a Hill
as Mercedes Mayfield
Mrs. Ashboro's Cat
as Mrs. Ashboro
Fly Cherry
as Miss Christina
Shadow Realm
as Mrs. Finch
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
as Necie
P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
as Aunt Claire
The Salton Sea
as Nancy Plummer
Angel Eyes
as Elanora Davis
My Louisiana Sky
as Jewel Ramsey
75 Degrees in July
as Jo Beth Anderson
A Marriage of Convenience
as Harriet Winslow
Little Boy Blue
as Doris Knight
A Father for Brittany
as Donna Minkowitz
The Wedding
as Gram (Miss Caroline)
As Good as It Gets
as Beverly Connelly
Convictions
as Margaret
Somebody Is Waiting
as Irma
Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story
as Joan Hart
Mary & Tim
as Esther
The Uninvited
as Delia
If These Walls Could Talk
as Mary Donnelly
Diabolique
as Edie Danziger
A Promise to Carolyn
as Jolene Maggart
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
as Sally Ann
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
as Peggy Buckey
Stuart Saves His Family
as Mom
Dad, the Angel & Me
as Betty
Death in Venice, CA
as Mona Dickens
Color of Night
as Edith Niedelmeyer
A Part of the Family
as Martha
The Yarn Princess
as Esther
Baby Brokers
as Sylvia
Benders
as Donna
The Secret Life of Houses
as Aunt Fergie
Hoggs' Heaven
as Mom
A Mother's Revenge
as Bess Warden
When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn
as Edna Larson
To Save a Child
as Rinda Larson
Shadow of a Doubt
as Helen Potter
Bump in the Night
as Katie Leonard
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
as Hannah Meredith
Champions: A Love Story
as Barbara Harlich
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
as Genna Kudirka
21 Hours at Munich
as Anneliese Graes
Return to Earth
as Joan Aldrin
Medical Story
as Phyllis Lenahan
Friendly Persuasion
as Eliza Birdwell
Please Stand by for Murder
Juggernaut
as Barbara Banister
The Country Girl
as Georgie Elgin
The Lie
as Anna
That Quiet Earth
as The Woman
Secrets
as Beatrice
The Rain People
as Natalie Ravenna
Filmmaker
as Self (uncredited)
Petulia
as Polo
The Counterfeit Killer
as Angie Peterson
Shadow Over Elveron
as Joanne Tregaskis
The Outsider
as Peggy Leydon
Dutchman
as Lula
The Group
as Polly
Flight from Ashiya
as Caroline Gordon / Stevenson
House of Women
as Erica Hayden
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Heavenly Finley
The Couch
as Terry Ames
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
as Reenie Flood
The Shape of the River
as Susy Clemens
Ice Palace
as Grace Kennedy
