In 1964, she left Hollywood to study at New York’s prestigious Actors Studio.
I felt like theres something they knew that I didn’t know," Knight said ina 2014 interview.
So I did."
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“I was absolutely born to play that role.
Tennessee came backstage and said, ‘Finally, I have my Blanche.
My perfect Blanche,'” Knight said ina 2010 interview.
Knight married actor and producer Gene Persson in 1959.
They had one child together, Kaitlin Hopkins, before divorcing in 1969.
She remarried, to British playwright John Hopkins, with whom she had another daughter, Sophie.
The couple remained married until Hopkins’ death in 1998.
