Kaitlin Hopkins

Kaitlin Persson Hopkins (born February 1, 1964) is an American actress and singer, the daughter of actress Shirley Knight and stage producer/director Gene Persson. Hopkins was born in New York City to actress Shirley Knight and actor producer Gene Persson. After her parents' divorce, Hopkins was raised in London by her mother and stepfather, John Hopkins, and returned to New York in 1976, at the age of 12. The following year she began her career in a summer stock production of The Children's Hour starring her mother and Joanne Woodward.[citation needed] In 1982, at the age of 18, Hopkins graduated from the Williston Northampton School, where she was a member of the Williston Widigers.[citation needed]