Shirley Knight, a two-time Oscar nominee and Emmy-winning actress, died at her daughter’s home in Texas. She was 83.
Knight died of natural causes, her actress daughter Kaitlin Hopkins announced in a note mourning her mother she posted on Facebook. The Kansas native died on Wednesday.
“Early this morning April 22nd you passed away, and your sweet soul left us for a better place. I was at your side and you went peacefully. To me, you were ‘just mom”’ to some you were ‘Miss Knight’, ‘Miss Shirley’, ‘Mama Shirley’ (to my students), ‘Shirl the Girl’ (to your friends), and ‘Shirley Knight’ to your fans,...
Knight died of natural causes, her actress daughter Kaitlin Hopkins announced in a note mourning her mother she posted on Facebook. The Kansas native died on Wednesday.
“Early this morning April 22nd you passed away, and your sweet soul left us for a better place. I was at your side and you went peacefully. To me, you were ‘just mom”’ to some you were ‘Miss Knight’, ‘Miss Shirley’, ‘Mama Shirley’ (to my students), ‘Shirl the Girl’ (to your friends), and ‘Shirley Knight’ to your fans,...
- 4/22/2020
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
Shirley Knight, a Tony- and Emmy Award-winning actress whose long and varied career included Oscar-nominated performances in 1960’s The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and 1962’s Sweet Bird of Youth, died today of natural causes at the home of her daughter Kaitlin Hopkins, in San Marcos, TX. She was 83.
In a memorial tribute addressed to Knight and posted on Facebook, Hopkins, an actress, wrote: “Early this morning April 22nd you passed away, and your sweet soul left us for a better place. I was at your side and you went peacefully. To me, you were ‘just mom’, to some you were ‘Miss Knight’, ‘Miss Shirley’, ‘Mama Shirley’ (to my students), ‘Shirl the Girl’ (to your friends), and ‘Shirley Knight’ to your fans.”
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In a memorial tribute addressed to Knight and posted on Facebook, Hopkins, an actress, wrote: “Early this morning April 22nd you passed away, and your sweet soul left us for a better place. I was at your side and you went peacefully. To me, you were ‘just mom’, to some you were ‘Miss Knight’, ‘Miss Shirley’, ‘Mama Shirley’ (to my students), ‘Shirl the Girl’ (to your friends), and ‘Shirley Knight’ to your fans.”
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- 4/22/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Actress Shirley Knight, star of “Sweet Bird of Youth,” and “As Good As It Gets” has died, her daughter actress Kaitlin Hopkins announced in a facebook post. She was 83.
Knight received two Oscar nominations for her work in her third and fourth films, “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” and “Sweet Bird of Youth, and appeared in numerous movies such as “Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” and television shows such as “Thirtysomething” and “NYPD Blue.”
A native from Kansas, Knight received a Tony Award in 1976 for her portrayal as an alcoholic actress in “Kennedy’s Children,” and received a second nomination again in 1997 in Horton Foote’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Young Man From Atlanta.” Knight won two Emmys in 1995 and a Golden Globe, the first Emmy was for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie in the the television movie “The McMartin Trial,” where she starred as Peggy Buckley,...
Knight received two Oscar nominations for her work in her third and fourth films, “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” and “Sweet Bird of Youth, and appeared in numerous movies such as “Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” and television shows such as “Thirtysomething” and “NYPD Blue.”
A native from Kansas, Knight received a Tony Award in 1976 for her portrayal as an alcoholic actress in “Kennedy’s Children,” and received a second nomination again in 1997 in Horton Foote’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Young Man From Atlanta.” Knight won two Emmys in 1995 and a Golden Globe, the first Emmy was for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie in the the television movie “The McMartin Trial,” where she starred as Peggy Buckley,...
- 4/22/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Shirley Knight, who was twice Oscar nominated for best supporting actress, for “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” (1960) and “Sweet Bird of Youth” (1962), and won a Tony and three Emmys, died on Wednesday of natural causes in San Marcos, Texas. She was 83.
Her daughter, actress Kaitlin Hopkins, paid tribute to Knight in a lengthy Facebook post.
Knight continued to work as she approached 80, reprising her role as Mom in “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” in 2015 after appearing in the 2009 original.
In 1997’s “As Good as It Gets,” starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt, Knight played the mother of Hunt’s character; the New York Times called her performance “tenderly funny.”
Other film credits of recent vintage include Luis Mandoki’s “Angel Eyes” (2001), starring Jennifer Lopez; thriller “The Salton Sea” (2002); “Grandma’s Boy” (2006); Rebecca Miller’s “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” (2009), with Robin Wright; “Our Idiot Brother” (2011), toplined by...
Her daughter, actress Kaitlin Hopkins, paid tribute to Knight in a lengthy Facebook post.
Knight continued to work as she approached 80, reprising her role as Mom in “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” in 2015 after appearing in the 2009 original.
In 1997’s “As Good as It Gets,” starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt, Knight played the mother of Hunt’s character; the New York Times called her performance “tenderly funny.”
Other film credits of recent vintage include Luis Mandoki’s “Angel Eyes” (2001), starring Jennifer Lopez; thriller “The Salton Sea” (2002); “Grandma’s Boy” (2006); Rebecca Miller’s “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” (2009), with Robin Wright; “Our Idiot Brother” (2011), toplined by...
- 4/22/2020
- by Carmel Dagan
- Variety Film + TV
Shirley Knight, the daring actress and darling of Tennessee Williams who received Oscar nominations for her work in her third and fourth films, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and Sweet Bird of Youth, has died. She was 83.
Knight died Wednesday of natural causes at the home of her daughter, actress Kaitlin Hopkins, in San Marcos, Texas.
Knight was known for taking bold chances during her career — as when she portrayed a promiscuous woman who confronts a young black male (Al Freeman Jr.) on the New York subway in the incendiary 1966 independent film Dutchman ...
Knight died Wednesday of natural causes at the home of her daughter, actress Kaitlin Hopkins, in San Marcos, Texas.
Knight was known for taking bold chances during her career — as when she portrayed a promiscuous woman who confronts a young black male (Al Freeman Jr.) on the New York subway in the incendiary 1966 independent film Dutchman ...
- 4/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Shirley Knight, the daring actress and darling of Tennessee Williams who received Oscar nominations for her work in her third and fourth films, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and Sweet Bird of Youth, has died. She was 83.
Knight died Wednesday of natural causes at the home of her daughter, actress Kaitlin Hopkins, in San Marcos, Texas.
Knight was known for taking bold chances during her career — as when she portrayed a promiscuous woman who confronts a young black male (Al Freeman Jr.) on the New York subway in the incendiary 1966 independent film Dutchman ...
Knight died Wednesday of natural causes at the home of her daughter, actress Kaitlin Hopkins, in San Marcos, Texas.
Knight was known for taking bold chances during her career — as when she portrayed a promiscuous woman who confronts a young black male (Al Freeman Jr.) on the New York subway in the incendiary 1966 independent film Dutchman ...
- 4/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
1954: CBS daytime soap opera The Secret Storm premiered.
1980: CBS aired the final episode of Love of Life.
1980: The Edge of Night's Nola admitted she was Mrs. Corey.
1994: As the World Turns' Holden and Lily reunited in the bell tower."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into d ifferent and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1954: The Secret Storm premiered on CBS. The daytime soap opera was created by Roy Winsor. Read "Remembering Woodbridge: A History of the Late, Great 'Secret Storm'" here.
After 20 years, CBS canceled the show with the final episode...
1980: CBS aired the final episode of Love of Life.
1980: The Edge of Night's Nola admitted she was Mrs. Corey.
1994: As the World Turns' Holden and Lily reunited in the bell tower."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into d ifferent and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1954: The Secret Storm premiered on CBS. The daytime soap opera was created by Roy Winsor. Read "Remembering Woodbridge: A History of the Late, Great 'Secret Storm'" here.
After 20 years, CBS canceled the show with the final episode...
- 2/1/2019
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
1954: CBS daytime soap opera The Secret Storm premiered.
1980: CBS aired the final episode of Love of Life.
1980: The Edge of Night's Nola admitted she was Mrs. Corey.
1994: As the World Turns' Holden and Lily reunited."Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results."
― Machiavelli
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1954: The Secret Storm premiered on CBS. The daytime soap opera was created by Roy Winsor.
1980: CBS aired the final episode of Love of Life.
1980: The Edge of Night's Nola admitted she was Mrs. Corey.
1994: As the World Turns' Holden and Lily reunited."Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results."
― Machiavelli
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1954: The Secret Storm premiered on CBS. The daytime soap opera was created by Roy Winsor.
- 2/2/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Award-winning Broadway composer Andrew Lippa, who was the 2010-2011 Composer in Residence at Texas State, will return to Texas State to perform a concert of music from his shows along side students from the musical theater program and Broadway veteran Kaitlin Hopkins Bat Boy, Bare at the Performing Arts Center on the campus of Texas State University on October 17th at 730pm. There will also be a silent auction in the lobby of signed Film, TV and TheatreMemorabilia including scripts, photos and posters.All proceeds from the concert will go to scholarships for students in the Department of Theatre and Dance. Tickets are available at www.txstatepresents.com.
- 9/1/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Sosie Bacon may only be 21, but she has a lot going for her. On top of being 2014's Miss Golden Globe, through her father Kevin Bacon, she is connected to nearly everyone in Hollywood - including every other previous Miss Golden Globe, most of whom are also the daughters (or sons) of industry power players. And while some have a connection through their famous parents, others, such as Laura Dern (who happens to have famous parents), are also connected through their own work. Don't believe us? Here's how you get from young Ms. Bacon to all of her famous predecessors,...
- 1/11/2014
- by Nate Jones
- PEOPLE.com
On Friday, August 9, 2013 The Broadway Dreams Foundation presented the first annual Women in the Performing Arts Symposium, a celebration of the vibrant, creative women who share their passion through artistic expression. Sponsored by Bernstein Global Wealth Management, this first symposium focused on women who make a difference through their efforts to create, sustain, and grow performing arts education and featuring an expert panel of women taking a closer look at the current financial state of the educational and professional arts environment. Moderated by acclaimed playwright Theresa Rebeck, the panel included Anne Bucciarelli Bernstein Global Wealth Management, Victoria Bussert Baldwin-Wallace University, Mariann Cook Rider University, Kaitlin Hopkins Texas State, Barbara Mackenzie-Wood Carnegie Mellon, Catherine McNeela Elon University and Amy RogersPace.
- 8/26/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Composer-in-Residence Andrew Lippa and the head of the Musical Theatre department (and Broadway alum) Kaitlin Hopkins took some time to speak to BroadwayWorld about their upcoming collaboration. In addition to Lippa's presence at Texas State next week (during which he will be working on his new musical, The Man In The Ceiling), Tsu's Musical Theatre students will be doing a production of Lippa's The Wild Party in Spring 2011. Read on to see what Lippa and Hopkins had to say about this exciting venture!
- 10/14/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
Other than Woody Allen films, comedies about curmudgeons are few and far between. Audiences tend to see little reason to sympathize with a perpetually disgruntled fussbudget who lashes out at everyone in his life. But screenwriter-director Michael Kalesniko has managed to pull off such a comedy with "How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog," and he succeeds for two reasons: His protagonist is played by a rumpled yet robust Kenneth Branagh, who brings surprising warmth to the role of a playwright beset by problems on many fronts, and Kalesniko's script lets us understand immediately what's really bugging his hero — the dreaded writer's block.
Movies about writers usually don't set boxoffice records, but this Millennium Films release has an unusually high ratio of laughs per minute.
Crises come at Peter McGowan (Branagh) from many angles. There is, of course, dilemma No. 1: After a run of boxoffice successes as the angry young playwright of Los Angeles, McGowan has hit a wall. Three successive flops have devastated his self- confidence, so he decides to workshop an incomplete drama with a hotshot director (David Krumholtz) who is addicted to Petula Clark songs and two flighty actors (Jonathan Schaech and Kaitlin Hopkins). But the idea is not working.
Meanwhile, wife Melanie Robin Wright Penn), a children's dance instructor, wants a child of her own; his mother-in-law (Lynn Redgrave) battles Alzheimer's; a stalker (Jared Harris) insists he's the real Peter McGowan; and the mutt next door barks all night.
Also new in the neighborhood is 10-year-old Amy (Suzi Hofrichter), afflicted with a mild case of cerebral palsy. Melanie invites the girl over frequently, hoping that Peter will warm up to children. This tactic fails miserably until his play's producer (Peter Riegert) and director insist that Peter's dialogue for a 10-year-old character doesn't ring true, so Peter befriends Amy to study her speech pattern.
"How to Kill" is, in essence, about the creative process and how an artist uses life for their own purposes. It also is about the selfishness to which an artist must cling if they are to achieve their goals. But this makes the film sound heavy — which it never is.
Peter's ego-deflating situations keep him off-balance, in search of creative equilibrium. Kalesniko's writing and direction are ever on the prowl for the oddball and offbeat.
HOW TO KILL YOUR NEIGHBOR'S DOG
Millennium Films
in association with Cinerenta
South Ford Pictures
in association with Lonsdale Prods.
Producers Michael Nozik, Nancy M. Ruff, Brad Weston
Director-screenwriter Michael Kalesniko
Executive producer Robert Redford
Co-executive producers Willi Baer, Avi Lerner, Danny Dembort, Trevor Short, John Thompson
Director of photography Hubert Taczanowski
Production designer Stephen Lineweaver
Music David Robbins
Costume designer Mary Claire Hannan
Editor Pamela Martin
Color/stereo
Cast:
Peter McGowan Kenneth Branagh
Melanie McGowan Robin Wright Penn
Amy Walsh Suzi Hofrichter
Edna Lynn Redgrave
Stalker Jared Harris
Larry Peter Riegert
Brian Sellars David Krumholtz
Adam Jonathan Schaech
Victoria Kaitlin Hopkins
Running time — 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Movies about writers usually don't set boxoffice records, but this Millennium Films release has an unusually high ratio of laughs per minute.
Crises come at Peter McGowan (Branagh) from many angles. There is, of course, dilemma No. 1: After a run of boxoffice successes as the angry young playwright of Los Angeles, McGowan has hit a wall. Three successive flops have devastated his self- confidence, so he decides to workshop an incomplete drama with a hotshot director (David Krumholtz) who is addicted to Petula Clark songs and two flighty actors (Jonathan Schaech and Kaitlin Hopkins). But the idea is not working.
Meanwhile, wife Melanie Robin Wright Penn), a children's dance instructor, wants a child of her own; his mother-in-law (Lynn Redgrave) battles Alzheimer's; a stalker (Jared Harris) insists he's the real Peter McGowan; and the mutt next door barks all night.
Also new in the neighborhood is 10-year-old Amy (Suzi Hofrichter), afflicted with a mild case of cerebral palsy. Melanie invites the girl over frequently, hoping that Peter will warm up to children. This tactic fails miserably until his play's producer (Peter Riegert) and director insist that Peter's dialogue for a 10-year-old character doesn't ring true, so Peter befriends Amy to study her speech pattern.
"How to Kill" is, in essence, about the creative process and how an artist uses life for their own purposes. It also is about the selfishness to which an artist must cling if they are to achieve their goals. But this makes the film sound heavy — which it never is.
Peter's ego-deflating situations keep him off-balance, in search of creative equilibrium. Kalesniko's writing and direction are ever on the prowl for the oddball and offbeat.
HOW TO KILL YOUR NEIGHBOR'S DOG
Millennium Films
in association with Cinerenta
South Ford Pictures
in association with Lonsdale Prods.
Producers Michael Nozik, Nancy M. Ruff, Brad Weston
Director-screenwriter Michael Kalesniko
Executive producer Robert Redford
Co-executive producers Willi Baer, Avi Lerner, Danny Dembort, Trevor Short, John Thompson
Director of photography Hubert Taczanowski
Production designer Stephen Lineweaver
Music David Robbins
Costume designer Mary Claire Hannan
Editor Pamela Martin
Color/stereo
Cast:
Peter McGowan Kenneth Branagh
Melanie McGowan Robin Wright Penn
Amy Walsh Suzi Hofrichter
Edna Lynn Redgrave
Stalker Jared Harris
Larry Peter Riegert
Brian Sellars David Krumholtz
Adam Jonathan Schaech
Victoria Kaitlin Hopkins
Running time — 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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