Cindi Knight

Actress (1953)

Cindi Knight is a famous American actress. She is best known for Matt Houston (1982) and Murder in Coweta County. She did not continue her career after playing for a few years. Cindi has been living a happy life with her family.

Cindi Knight was born on May 2, 1953, in Jacksonville, Florida. She belongs to Caucasian ancestry. Cindi is the daughter of Bobby Knight and his wife, Muriel Knight. Nothing much about her parent's profession is known to the media. She is yet to disclose the details on her educational background.

Relationship Status of Cindi Knight

Cindi is living a happy life along with her children. She is single as of 2020. She is better known as the widow of American actor, comedian, television producer, southern gospel singer, and writer, Andy Griffith.

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Image: Cindi along with her husband, Andy in their early life
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Cindi and Andy had been dating for some time before tying their wedding knot. They married on his North Carolina estate on April 12, 1983. She first met Griffith in 1978 at a volleyball game attended by "The Lost Colony" cast members. She became friends with Griffith, who had a summer home there.

A month after the wedding, she helped nurse him through Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a viral nerve infection accompanied by pain and paralysis in his legs that gradually receded. During his illness, she gave up her acting pursuits to assist him with his career.

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Image: Cindi Knight and her husband, Andy
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This Happy marriage ended on July 3, 2012, after the death of Andy at the age of eight-six. The love birds had an age difference of twenty-nine. In front of love, this age difference did not have any meaning.

Andy's Failed Marriage's

Although This may be the only marriage of Cindi, her husband, Andy, was married twice before this. Andy was first married to Barbara Bray Edwards in 1949. They remained married for more than two decades. They adopted two children: a son named Andy Samuel Griffith Jr. and a daughter named Dixie Nann Griffith.

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Image: Andy along with his wife and his children 
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They divorced in 1972. After separating with Barbara, Andy remained single for some time and then married to Solica Cassuto, a Greek actress in 1973. Like that of his first marriage, this also ended in 1981. 

Net Worth And Earnings

Cindi Knight has an estimated net worth of more than $100,000. She has accumulated most of the net worth through her short career of working as a actress. She must have been living a happy life through her husband's successful career. Rebecca Claire Miller is a wife of a well-known American politician, Sean Spicer

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Image: Cindi along with her husband, Andy attending a event 
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Cindi's husband, Andy, had an estimated net worth of more than $60 Million. He gained recognition for his role in the 1957 file A Face in the Crowd, Griffith became more widely known in the '60s for his lead role in the situation comedy The Andy Griffith Show. 

Andy was awarded several awards for his acting career. He was inducted into Television Hall of Fame in 1991. Andy opened a 2,500-square-foot facility which houses the world's largest collection of Griffith memorabilia on September 26, 2009, in Mount Airy, North Carolina.

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