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Gladys Knight

Acting

Born May 28, 1944 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Also known as Gladys Maria Knight

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Awards & recognition

  • National Medal of Arts · 2023
  • Kennedy Center Honors · 2022
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Filmography37 titles

The First Family

as Grandma Carolyn

Star

2016as Gladys Knight

The Muppet Show

1976as Self - Special Guest Star

Black Woodstock

1969as Self

Hawaii Five-0

2010as Lou's mother

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

2021as Self - Musician

The Masked Singer

2019as Self - Bee

30 Rock

2006as Gladys Knight

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962as Self

New York Undercover

1994as Natalie

The Jeffersons

1975

Hot in Cleveland

2010as Miss Shonda

Empire

2015as Gladys Knight

Las Vegas

2003as Gladys Knight

A Different World

1987as Herself

The Jamie Foxx Show

1996as Janice King

The Dick Cavett Show

1968as Self - Guest

Ally McBeal

1997as Gladys Knight

The Apollo

2019as Self (archive footage)

Licence to Kill

1989Theme Song Performance

A Little Women's Christmas

2024as Bertie Henderson

Coming 2 America

2021as Gladys Knight

I Can Do Bad All by Myself

2009as Wilma

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

as Chocolate (voice)

Cobra

1986Songs

Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan

2025as Self (archive footage)

Dancing with the Stars

2005as Self - Contestant

Almost Christmas

2016as Dorothy

Baywatch

1989

I'm Glad It's Christmas

2022as Cora Ross

Twenty Bucks

1993as Mrs. McCormac

Hollywood Homicide

2003as Olivia Robidoux

American Idol

2002as Self

Unbeatable Harold

2006as Phyllis

The View

1997as Self

By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem

as Self

A Motown Christmas

2024as Self