A versatile and actress of film and theatre who won several awards, Shirley Knight passes away at the age of 83
Actress Shirley Knight holds the two Emmys she received for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries for her role in"Indictment: The McMartin Trial" September 10 at the 47th Annual Emmy Awards in Pasadena, California.
Knight’s first Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress came in just her second screen role, as an Oklahoman in love with a Jewish man in the 1960 film version of William Inges’ play “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.” For a time, she lived in New York, where she studied with Lee Strasberg. She turned down an offer to play Ophelia to Richard Burton’s Hamlet, preferring to appear on Broadway in 1964 with Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley in Anton Chekhov's “The Three Sisters,” a play directed by Strasberg.
Over the next few years, she raised her daughters and did needlework. But “I decided that acting is what I do best,” she said. The family moved back to the U.S. and she returned to films in “Beyond the Poseidon Adventure.”
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