Trivia

Won Broadway's 1976 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Kennedy's Children". She was also nominated in 1997 as Best Actress (Play) for "The Young Man from Atlanta".

She and her daughter Kaitlin Hopkins both made guest appearances on Law & Order (1990).

She received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in the British film Dutchman (1966).

She was the daughter of Virginia (Webster) and Noel Johnson Knight, an oil company executive. She was raised in Mitchell, Kansas, and Lyons, KS.

She was nominated for a 1977 Joseph Jefferson Award for Guest Artist for her performance in the play, "The Landscape of the Body", at the Academy Festival Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Appeared in the L.A. stage and British film version of Dutchman (1966), a racial drama, which was produced by her then-husband Eugene Persson. She won the Venice Film Festival award for her cinematic performance.

Was 6 months pregnant with her daughter Sophie C. Hopkins when she completed filming on The Rain People (1969).

Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Sophie C. Hopkins to perform in the Broadway play "The Watering Place".

She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village, New York City.

1959 Deb Star.

Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Kaitlin Hopkins to perform in the Broadway play "The Three Sisters".

Has two daughters: Kaitlin Hopkins and Sophie C. Hopkins. Ex-mother-in-law of Daniel Passer.

She was a lifelong liberal Democrat.

Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes returned to her family.

The runaway story of her character Natalie Ravenna in The Rain People (1969) inspired the character Dolors (Montse Caminal) in the short film Silenci (2007).