Shirley Knight, the daring actress and darling of Tennessee Williams who received Oscar nominations for her work in her third and fourth films,The Dark at the Top of the StairsandSweet Bird of Youth, has died.
She was 83. Knight died Wednesday of natural causes at the home of her daughter, actress Kaitlin Hopkins, in San Marcos, Texas.
Knight was known for taking bold chances during her career — as when she portrayed a promiscuous woman who confronts a young black male (Al Freeman Jr.) on the New York subway in the incendiary 1966 independent filmDutchman(1966) or when she played a pregnant Long Island housewife who gets involved with an ex-football player (James Caan) inThe Rain People(1969), a film Francis Ford Coppola wrote just for her..
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