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AWARDS
Tony Award
Venice Film Festival Best Actress
Cannes Film Festival Critics Prize
Three Emmy's
Two Golden Globe's
Joseph Jefferson Award
The Evening Standard Award
New Jersey Drama Critics Award

NOMINATIONS
Two Academy Award Nominations
Ten Emmy Award Nominations
Three Golden Globe Award Nominations
Two Tony Award Nominations
Two Drama Desk Nominations
British Academy Award
Helen Hayes

FILM: (Short List)
ELEVATOR - Directed by Stig Svendsen
OUR IDIOT BROTHER - Directed by Jesse Peretz
PAUL BLART: MALL COP- Directed by Steve Carr
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE -Directed by Rebecca Miller
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS -Directed by A.D. Calvo
GRANDMA’S BOY-Directed by Nicholaus Goossen
DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD-Directed by Callie Khouri
AS GOOD AS IT GETS-Directed by James Brooks
THE SALTON SEA-Directed by J.D. Caruso
STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY-Directed by Harold Ramis
DIABOLIQUE-Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik
THE COLOR OF NIGHT-Directed by Richard Rush
SEVENTY-FIVE DEGREES IN JULY-Directed by Hyatt Bass
LITTLE BOY BLUE-Directed by Antonio Tibaldi
THE HOUSE ON THE HILL
ANGEL EYES-Directed by Luis Mandoki.
THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS-Directed by Delbert Mann(Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe nomination)
SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH-Directed by Richard Brooks (Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe nomination)
PETULIA-Directed by Richard Lester
DUTCHMAN- Directed by Anthony Harvey (Best Actress Venice, Jury Prize Cannes)
THE GROUP-Directed by Sidney Lumet
THE RAIN PEOPLE-Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
ENDLESS LOVE-Directed by Franco Zefferelli

TELEVISION: (Short List)
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES (Recurring; Emmy nomination)
HOUSE
LAW AND ORDER (Emmy nomination)
INDICTMENT: THE McMARTIN TRIAL (Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award)
N.Y.P.D. (Emmy award)
MY LOUISIANA SKY-Showtime MOW
THE WEDDING-ABC MOW
THIRTY SOMETHING (Emmy award)
PLAYING FOR TIME (Emmy nomination)
E.R.
Ingmar Bergman's THE LIE
THE COUNTRY GIRL
MISS JULIE

THEATRE: (Short List)
IN MASKS OUTRAGEOUS and AUSTERE by Tennesse Williams
THE OLD MASTERS by Simon Gray
COME BACK, COME BACK, WHEREVER YOU ARE by Arthur Laurents
THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA by Horton Foote-Directed by Robert Falls
(Tony and Drama Desk nominations)
KENNEDY’S CHILDREN (Tony Award, Drama Desk nomination)
THE THREE SISTERS-directed by Lee Strasberg
OFF BROADWAY: (Short List)
SWIMMING UPSTREAM- New Orleans and Atlanta
LOSING TIME- Manhattan Theatre Club (written for her by John Hopkins)
THE LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY- The Public Theatre (Drama Desk nomination, Joseph Jefferson award)
A LOVELY SUNDAY FOR CREVE COEUR-The Hudson Guild Theatre (written for her by Tennessee Williams)
NECESSARY TARGETS by Eve Ensler (Off Broadway)
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES by Eve Ensler (various venues)
COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA-The Roundabout Theatre
THE CHERRY ORCHARD- The Arena Stage- Directed by Lucien Pintile
THE GLASS MENAGERIE- The McCarter Theatre- Directed by Emily Mann)
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE- The McCarter Theatre
THE MARRIAGE PLAY- The McCarter Theatre (written by Edward Albee)
ABSENT FOREVER- Great Lakes Theatre, Cleveland (written for her by John Hopkins)
ECONOMIC NECESSITY (written for her by John Hopkins)
HAMLET- Great Lakes Theatre, Cleveland

 

OTHER: Miss Knight holds a Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Lake Forest College


 

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