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Shirley Knight

Shirley Knight

Highest Rated:
91% Petulia (1968)
Lowest Rated:
12% Diabolique (1996)
Birthday:
Jul 5, 1936
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
An accomplished actress of stage, screen, and television, Shirley Knight has specialized in playing contemporary women with psychological problems. Knight was discovered while studying drama with Jeff Corey when she and her classmates Jack Nicholson, Robert Blake, Dean Stockwell, and Sally Kellerman…

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Highest Rated Movies

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Range of Movie T-meters: 12% - 91%
Number of Movies: 66
Box Office Since 2001: $271.0M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 68% Our Idiot Brother
  • Ilene
$24.8M
2011 Elevator
  • Actor
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2010 Listen To Your Heart
  • Actor
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2009 33% Paul Blart: Mall Cop
  • Mom
$146.3M
2009 67% The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
  • Dot
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2008 The Other Side of the Tracks
  • Actor
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2008 Not Fade Away
  • Actor
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2006 18% Grandma's Boy
  • Bea
$5.9M
2005 20% Open Window
  • Actor
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2005 Thanks to Gravity
  • Lea
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2005 Girls on Film 2
  • Actor
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2004 Sexual Life
  • Actor
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2003 86% Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion
  • Actor
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2003 24% P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
  • Aunt Claire
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2003 Ghost Cat
  • Mrs. Ashboro
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2002 62% The Salton Sea
  • Nancy Plummer
$0.6M
2002 44% Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
  • Necie
$69.5M
2002 Dad, the Angel and Me
  • Actor
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2001 34% The Center of the World
  • Actor
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2001 My Louisiana Sky
  • Actor
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2001 75% House on a Hill
  • Mercedes
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2001 33% Angel Eyes
  • Elanora
$23.8M
2000 75 Degrees in July
  • Jo Beth Anderson
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2000 Best of Boys in Love
  • Actor
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1998 Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding
  • Actor
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1998 A Father for Brittany (A Change of Heart)
  • Donna Minkowitz
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1998 A Marriage of Convenience (Un mariage de convenance)
  • Actor
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1997 25% Little Boy Blue
  • Doris Knight
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1997 86% As Good As It Gets
  • Beverly
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1996 Mary & Tim
  • Esther Melville
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1996 Somebody Is Waiting
  • Irma Gill
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1996 Victim of the Haunt
  • Delia
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1996 88% If These Walls Could Talk
  • Mary
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1996 A Promise to Carolyn
  • Actor
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1996 12% Diabolique
  • Edie Danziger
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1995 27% Stuart Saves His Family
  • Stuart's Mom
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1995 Indictment: The McMartin Trial
  • Actor
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1995 A Good Day To Die (Children of the Dust)
  • Aunt Bertha
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1994 The Yarn Princess (More Than a Miracle)
  • Esther
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1994 22% Color of Night
  • Edith Niedelmeyer
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1993 A Mother's Revenge (Desperate Justice)
  • Actor
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1992 Hard Promises
  • Actor
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1991 Shadow of a Doubt
  • Mrs. Potter
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1989 Sweet Bird of Youth
  • Actor
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1987 Billionaire Boys Club
  • Actor
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1985 Panther Squad
  • Actor
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1984 Urge to Kill
  • Actor
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1982 The Sender
  • Jerolyn
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1981 23% Endless Love
  • Anne
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1980 Playing for Time
  • Frau Lagerfuhrerin Maria Mandel
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1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
  • Hannah Meredith
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1979 Mondo Cannibale (Barbarian Goddess) (El Caníbal) (The Cannibals) (White Cannibal Queen)
  • Actor
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1976 21 Hours at Munich
  • Annaliese Graese
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1974 Juggernaut
  • Barbara Banister
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1971 Secrets
  • Beatrice
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1969 82% The Rain People
  • Natalie
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1968 91% Petulia
  • Polo
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1968 Crackshot
  • Angie Peterson
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1966 Dutchman
  • Director
  • Lula
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1966 The Group
  • Polly Andrews
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1964 Flight from Ashiya
  • Caoline Carroll
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1963 Outer Limits - "The Man Who Was Never Born"
  • Actor
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1962 House of Women
  • Erica
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1962 75% Sweet Bird of Youth
  • Heavenly Finley
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1960 Ice Palace
  • Grace at 16
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1960 The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
  • Reenie Flood
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    1. Carol Connelly: Why can't I have a normal boyfriend? Just a regular boyfriend, one that doesn't go nuts on me!
    2. Beverly: Everybody wants that, dear. It doesn't exist.
    From As Good As It Gets. Submitted by Rebekah H (11 months ago)

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