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Biography: Shirley Knight

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 were appearing in a production of Look Back in Anger. Her performance netted her an agent who in turn helped her get her first film role in Five Gates to Hell (1959). Knight's first real break came with a supporting role in Delbert Mann's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960). Her portrayal of a young woman whose anguished lover commits suicide garnered Knight her first Oscar nomination. The second was for playing Paul Newman's first love in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). In the early '60s, Knight began appearing occasionally on television, making a memorable debut in the sci-fi anthology series Outer Limits, in the episode "The Man Who Was Never Born" opposite Martin Landau. By mid-decade, Knight was well on her way to becoming a major film star. But Knight was discontent with having money and fame. To her acting was an art and she an aspiring artist. To meet her goals, Knight decided that the only way to become a real actress was to gain experience on the New York stage, and so, she left the film industry to study and work back East. Her Broadway career was successful and in 1966, Knight flew to England to try her luck in British theater. During her "theatrical period," Knight did occasionally appear in feature films, including Sidney Lumet's The Group (1967) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969). Knight returned to Broadway in the mid-'70s. But by then, Knight was in her forties, an awkward age for actresses who can be considered too old to play ingénues but too young for character roles. This did not stop Knight from working in television and films. Eventually, Knight successfully traversed the middle-aged hump and attained a new, busy career playing supporting and maternal character roles. Knight has been married to British playwright John Hopkins since 1970 and occasionally bills herself as Shirley Knight Hopkins. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide less

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)
Tags: Action Comedy Comedy
Length: 87min
A New Jersey rent-a-cop gets his moment to shine as the holidays approach and Santa's little helpers stage a coup at the local shopping mall in this comedy starring King of Queens' Kevin James. Paul Blart (James) is a single suburban dad attempting to...
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Grandma's Boy (2006)
Cast: Shirley Jones
Tags: Stoner Comedy Gross-Out Comedy Comedy
Length: 94min
Can the world's oldest adolescent maintain his cool while living with his grandmother? Alex (Allen Covert) is a 35-year-old video-game fanatic who gave up a career in accounting to take a job testing games for Brainasium, the company behind the wildly...
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Open Window (2005)
Cast: Elliott Gould
Tags: Marriage Drama Drama
Length: 97min
Mia Goldman's psychological drama Open Window stars Joel Edgerton and Robbin Tunney as a husband and wife who have intense professional lives, but are able to rely on each other during their time together at home. One night the wife is raped, sending...
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
Cast: Ashley Judd Maggie Smith James Garner Ellen Burstyn Sandra Bullock Callie Khouri
Tags: Ensemble Film Family Drama Comedy Drama Americana
Length: 116min
Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of a pair of popular novels by author Rebecca Wells, -Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and -Little Altars Everywhere. Sandra Bullock stars as Sidda Lee Walker, a New...
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P.S. Your Cat is Dead! (2003)
Tags: Black Comedy Gay & Lesbian Films Comedy
Length: 92min
Jimmy Zoole (Steve Guttenberg, also making his directing debut) has been having bad, bad day. Not only has his one-man version of Hamlet (performed with hand puppets) just tanked, his girlfriend has left him, his cat is gravely ill, and his unfinished...
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My Louisiana Sky (2001)
Cast: Shirley Knight Adam Arkin Juliette Lewis
Tags: Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 100min
A young girl learns a difficult lesson about the bonds of family in this drama based on the novel for young adults by Kimberly Willis Holt. Tiger Ann Parker (Kelsey Keel) is a girl growing up in the small rural community of Saitter, LA, and she's not...
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A House on a Hill (2001)
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 90min
A retired architect returns to work at the behest of unlikely patrons in this low-key drama. Richard and Kate Banks (Jack Conley and Rebecca Staab) are a well-to-do couple who want to buy a home in Southern California. While house-hunting, Kate...
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75 Degrees (2000)
Cast: Karen Sillas Harris Yulin
Tags: Family Drama Drama Reunion Films
Length: 86min
The reunion of a dysfunctional Texas family provides the setting for this somber drama from first-time writer/director Hyatt Bass. Letty (Karen Sillas), a successful artist, returns home for the first time in several years. The ostensible purpose of...
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A Marriage of Convenience (1998)
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Family Drama
Length: min
This romantic made-for-television drama is based on a novel by Georgia Brockoven and tells the story of a boy who dreams of having a complete set of parents and the two very-different adults who love him enough to grant his wish. The child's mother...
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As Good As It Gets (1997)
Cast: Jack Nicholson Helen Hunt James L. Brooks Harold Ramis
Tags: Comedy Drama Romance Slice of Life Romantic Comedy
Length: 139min
James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News) directed this 50 million-plus romantic comedy, set in Manhattan. Dysfunctional, acid-tongued romance novelist Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), who suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder,...
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