Known for:	As Good as It Gets, Grandma's Boy, If These Walls Could Talk
Birth name:	Shirley Enola Knight
Birthday:	5 July 1936, Goessel, Kansas, USA

Two daughters: Kaitlin Hopkins and Sophie C. Hopkins A lovely, talented, highly promising film ingenue in the early 60s, Shirley was very vocal about her dissatisfaction with the Hollywood scene and abandoned potential film stardom for Broadway roles. She later moved to England and thrived on the London stage for a number of years before returning to Hollywood as a plus-sized character support. Appeared in the L.A. stage and British film version of Dutchman, a racial drama, which was produced by her then-husband Eugene Persson. She won the Venice Film Festival award for her cinematic performance. She refused the play "Kennedy's Children" by Robert Patrick in London, but accepted it in New York. At first rehearsal she began to read the role she'd been offered in England (a drab schoolteacher), and was astonished to learn that she was instead wanted for another lead (a glamorous actress), for which she won a "Tony" award. Mother-in-law of Daniel Passer. Won Broadway's 1976 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Kennedy's Children." She was also nominated in 1997 as Best Actress (Play) for "The Young Man from Atlanta."

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