Shirley Knight | ||
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Date of birth July 5, 1936 | ||
Place of birth Goessel, Kansas | ||
Date of death April 22, 2020 | ||
Place of death San Marcos, Texas | ||
IMDb profile |
Shirley Knight was an actress who played three different characters on Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She was nominated for the 1992 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Melanie Cullen in the Law & Order episode "The Wages of Love". She also starred in the film Grandma's Boy (with Doris Roberts).
Knight's daughter is Kaitlin Hopkins, an actress who guest-starred in several episodes of the Law & Order franchise.
Knight died on April 22, 2020, of natural causes.
Appearances[]
Melanie Cullen | Dr. Wharton | Rose Granville |
L&O: "The Wages of Love" | SVU: "Repression" | SVU: "Tragedy" |