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SHIRLEY KNIGHT has won the Tony Award, three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, The Venice Film Festival Best Actress, The Joseph Jefferson Award, and the New Jersey Drama Critics Award. She has been nominated for two academy awards, two Tony Awards, Ten Emmys, three Golden Globes, the Helen Hayes Award, and two Drama Desk Awards.
THEATRE (short list)
THE THREE SISTERS directed by Lee Strasberg (Broadway)
LOSING TIME written for her by John Hopkins, directed by Ed Sherin (Manhattan Theatre Club)
LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY by John Guare, directed by John Pasquin (Chicago, New York Public Theatre) (Drama Desk nomination, Joseph Jefferson award)
A LOVELY SUNDAY FOR CREVE COEUR written for her by Tennessee Williams (Hudson Theatre Guild)
KENNEDY’S CHILDREN by Robert Patrick (Broadway-Tony award)
ECONOMIC NECESSITY written for her by John R. Hopkins (England)
ABSENT FOREVER written for her by John R. Hopkins (Cleveland-PBS)
A TOUCH OF THE POET (England)
THE CHERRY ORCHARD directed by Lucian Pintele (Arena Stage)
THE GLASS MENAGERIE directed by Emily Mann (McCarter Theatre)
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (McCarter Theatre, Annenberg Centre, Stamford Theatre)
THE DEPOT by Eve Ensler, directed by Joanne Woodward (Kennedy Centre, national tour)
THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA by Horton Foote (Broadway, Tony and Drama Desk nominations)
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Pasadena Playhouse), BLITHE SPIRIT (Pasadena Playhouse)
CINEMA (short list)
THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS directed by Delbert Mann (Academy award nomination) (Golden Globe)
SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH directed by Richard Brooks (Academy award nomination)
PETULIA directed by Richard Lester
DUTCHMAN (Best Actress Venice Film Festival)
THE GROUP directed by Sidney Lumet
THE RAIN PEOPLE written for her and directed by Francis Ford Coppolla
AS GOOD AS IT GETS directed by James Brooks
STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY directed by Harold Ramis
DEVINE SECRETS OF THE YA=YA SISTERHOOD directed by Callie Kouri
TELEVISION (short list)
MISS JULIE by August Strindberg
CBC, THE COUNTRY GIRL by Clifford Odets- Hallmark Hall of Fame
THE LIE by Ingmar Bergman CBS
PLAYING FOR TIME by Arthur Miller,
THREE PLAYS FOR BRITISH TELEVISION written for her by John Hopkins
Indictment: The McMartin Trial HBO (Emmy and Golden globe awards)
Many television guest appearances including DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, HOUSE, NYPD BLUE, 30 SOMETHING, LAW AND ORDER, LAW AND ORDER SVU.
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