Biography
Patricia Louisianna Knop was a producer and writer, known for 9½ Weeks (1986), Wild Orchid (1989) and Siesta (1987) and The Red Shoe Diaries television series. She was married to writer-director-actor Zalman King for 46 years, until he died from cancer at the age of 70.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Beaches of Agnès
2008
as Self
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with t...
Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass
1995
Executive Producer
Evan, a beautiful bounty hunter after a seductively handsome and charming con man who makes his living using his looks and wit to defraud women of the...
Delta of Venus
1995
Screenplay
A struggling American writer and a fellow American expatriate begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of ...
Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
1994
Story, Executive Producer
A sultry Italian maid unlocks a couple's secret chamber and unleashes a private fantasy. An architect is lured by a mysterious beauty into a torrid ga...
Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
1993
Executive Producer
Just Like That: A receptionist in a large firm cheats on her voyeuristic lover with a delivery boy who has a crush on her. Another Woman's Lipstick: A...
Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare
1993
Producer
A cab ride with a dangerously seductive stranger ignites a steamy, purely sexual affair for a woman torn between her hunger for lust and her passion f...
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
Screenplay, Executive Producer
A man grieving the loss of his fiancée discovers a diary she kept that details a side of her he never knew. In an effort to understand, he reaches out...
Wild Orchid
1989
Screenplay
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
Siesta
1987
Screenplay
American Claire wakes up blood-soaked and bruised at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state, she has flashbacks from the ...
Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986
Screenplay
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life,...
Silence of the North
1981
Screenplay
Director Allan King's 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman struggling to survive with her family in the Cana...
Lady Oscar
1979
Adaptation, Screenplay
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at...
The Passover Plot
1976
Screenplay
Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to strengthen his political position against the Roman occupati...