Knight passed away Wednesday at her daughter's home in San Marcos, Texas, according to her daughter Kaitlin Hopkins.
She was nominated for best supporting actress two years later for her role as the woman seduced and abandoned by Paul Newman in the 1962 film "Sweet Bird of Youth," based on the Tennessee Williams play. 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." She also appeared in such films as "Endless Love" , "As Good as It Gets" and "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."
Knight became active in television starting in the '80s and was nominated for Emmys eight times from 1981 to 2006. She won a guest actress Emmy in 1988 for playing Mel Harris' mother in "Thirtysomething," and then won two Emmys in the same year, 1995: one for a supporting actress role in the TV drama "Indictment: The McMartin Trial," and a second for a guest actress role as a murder victim in "NYPD Blue.
Just saw her last night in a movie called the Group (1966)😇🕊
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I remember when, at a Hollywood award show she stated that movies and TV dramas were as important as breathing. Now people are literally suffocating to death while actors virtue signal. The irony.
Best movie she ever did was 'The Sender'..
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My condolences to her family and friends.