Kennedy's Children Playbill, Biography, December, 1975

Who's Who in the Cast

SHIRLEY KNIGHT (Carla) currently divides her time between America and England. Since making her Broadway debut in 1964 in the Actors Studio production of The Three Sisters, in which she costarred with Kim Stanley and Geraldine Page, she has been seen in the Hugh Wheeler adaption of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Lyle Kessler's The Watering Place. Off Broadway she has appeared in Roger O. Hinson's Journey to the Day and Stanley Mann's Room, and in England in A Touch of the Poet, Antigone and John Hopkins' Economic Necessity. Her more than 20 films include The Group, Petulia, The Rain People and Juggernaut. Her performances in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and Sweet Bird of Youth earned her Academy Award nominations and for Dutchman she won the Venice Film Festival Best Actress Award. Active in television on both sides of the Atlantic, she has been in Ingmar Bergman's The Lie, The Country Girl, Friendly Persuasion, Miss Julie, Some Distant Shadow, That Quiet Earth and Walk into the Dark (the last three written by her playwright husband, John Hopkins). Her future plans include appearance in both Mr. Hopkins play, Losing Time, and film, I'm Not Susie Dillion. She has two daughters, Kaitlin and Sophie, and is a member of the Actors Studio.

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