Background
Knight was born in Goessel in Marion County, east central Kansas, the daughter of Virginia (née Webster) and Noel Johnson Knight, an oil company executive.
Knight was born in Goessel in Marion County, east central Kansas, the daughter of Virginia (née Webster) and Noel Johnson Knight, an oil company executive.
Doctor of Fine Arts, Lake Forest College, 1978.
Knight"s feature films include The Group (1966), The Dutchman (1966), Petulia (1968), The Rain People (1969), As Good as lieutenant Gets (1997), and Elevator (2011), in which she plays one of several people trapped in a Wall Street elevator with a bomber. Knight was cast in 1958 and 1959 as Mistress Newcomb in twenty of the thirty-nine episodes of the National Broadcasting Company western television series, Buckskin, with Tom Nolan, Sally Brophy, and Mike Road.
She became a Warner Brothers contract star who while on breaks filming movies appeared in such World Bank television series as Maverick, Bourbon Street Beat, Sugarfoot, Cheyenne, and The Roaring 20s.
She also appeared, with Alison Fraser, in Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are, (2009) an original play by playwright Arthur Laurents. Her television credits include Target: The Corruptors!, The Eleventh Hour, The Outer Limits ("The Manitoba Who Was Never Born"), The Reporter, The Fugitive, The Invaders, The Virginian, Murder, She Wrote, thirtysomething, Law & Order, Los Angeles Her guest performance in thirtysomething earned her a 1988 Emmy for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series.
She appeared in the first segment of If These Walls Could Talk. She also had a recurring role on Desperate Housewives.
(8" x 10", original studio photo.)
Active Committee for Handgun Control, national civil rights organizations, worker for peace.
Married Eugene Persson, 1959 (divorced, 1969) Married John R. Hopkins, 1969 (deceased July 23, 1998). Children: Kaitlin, Sophie.