Two-time Oscar-nominated actress Shirley Knight passed away on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. She died of natural causes in San Marcos, TX at the age of 83.

Knight’s onscreen career spanned over 60 years with more than 180 credits. She was nominated for two Best Supporting Actress Academy Awards for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs in 1961 and Sweet Bird of Youth in 1963.

She was born in Goessel, Kansas on July 5, 1936 and studied at the Pasadena Theatre School. Her acting career began in the late ’50s, with an arc on Buckskin. Some of her early roles included appearances on Rawhide, 77 Sunset Strip, Maverick, and The Fugitive.

Some of her early notable film roles came in the ’60s in The Group, The Dutchman, Petulia, and The Rain People. In the ’70s, she was in Juggernaut, Nakia, Barnaby Jones, and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. Throughout the ’80s, Knight appeared in Endless Love, Prisoners, The Equalizer, and Murder, She Wrote.

Her work in the ’90s included Matlock, Law & Order, L.A. Law, The Secret Life of Houses, As Good As It Gets, and she starred in the short-lived show, Maggie Winters. In the 2000s, Knight was in Angel Eyes, Ally McBeal, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Grandma’s Boy, several episodes of Desperate Housewives, and Paul Blart: Mall Cop. More recently, Knight was seen in Elevator, The Mob Doctor, and her last role was in 2018’s Periphery.

In addition to her Oscar nods, she won a Tony for her performance in Kennedy’s Children in ’76, a Golden Globe for Indictment: The McMartin Trial in ’96, and won three Emmys for Thirtysomething in ’87, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, and NYPD Blue in ’95.