She was nominated for another Tony in 1997 for Best Actress in Horton Foote’s The Young Man From Atlanta.
Shirley Knight, the actor whose work in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and Sweet Bird of Youth earned her two Oscar nominations, has died at the age of 83.
Knight became active in television starting in the Eighties and was nominated for Emmys eight times from 1981 to 2006.
Knight played, in the words of The New York Times review, “a very tart tart with an ambition of gold”.