SHIRLEY KNIGHT (Lily Dale Kidder) made her Broadway debut in 1964 in the Lee Strasberg production of The Three Sisters with Kim Stanley and Geraldine Page. Favorite theatre roles include A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur at the Hudson Guild Theater, a play written for her by Tennessee Williams; Kennedy's Children at the Golden Theatre (Tony Award): John Guare's Landscape of the Body at the Public Theater (Joseph Jefferson Award, New York Drama Desk nomination); and Losing Time at the Manhattan Theater Club, by her husband, John Hopkins. Miss Knight's film career began in 1960 with her role in Dark at the Top of the Stairs, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Film highlights include Sweet Bird of Youth, (Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe Award); Dutchman, which she also produced, garnered her the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Critics Prize, and the Evening Standard Award; and The Rain People, a film directed and written for her by Francis Ford Coppola. In 1995 Miss Knight won an unprecedented two Emmy Awards for her roles in "NYPD Blue" and "Indictment: The McMartin Trial," for which she also won the Golden Globe Award. She has two daughters, Kaitlin and Sophie.