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Shelley Duvall
Birth at
7 July 1949
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American actress Shelley Alexis Duvall was born in Houston on July 7, 1949. Her mother worked as a real estate broker and her father was a lawyer. In addition to her, three other brothers grew up in the family. After graduating from high school, Shelley was engaged in the distribution of cosmetics, earning a living. But everything changed when in 1970 the twenty-year-old girl was noticed by director Robert Altman, inviting Susanne Davis to the role in his comedy Brewster McCloud. The play of the
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American actress Shelley Alexis Duvall was born in Houston on July 7, 1949. Her mother worked as a real estate broker and her father was a lawyer. In addition to her, three other brothers grew up in the family. After graduating from high school, Shelley was engaged in the distribution of cosmetics, earning a living.
But everything changed when in 1970 the twenty-year-old girl was noticed by director Robert Altman, inviting Susanne Davis to the role in his comedy Brewster McCloud. The play of the non-professional actress so impressed and charmed Robert that he without hesitation began to shoot Shelley in his subsequent films McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us, Nashville.
In 1977, Altman shot the drama “Three Women”, where the main role of Millie Lammoureux was played again by his favorite Shelly Duval. It was a serious work, for which the actress was nominated for the prestigious British BAFTA award, and also received the prize for Best Actress at the Cannes Festival.
In the same year, another film with Duval was released - Woody Allen's Oscar-winning comedy Annie Hall.
The most significant work in the career of the actress is the role of Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining, based on the novel by Stephen King in 1980. Shelley played a duet with Jack Nicholson. Critics reacted quite harshly to this work of the actress, but, nevertheless, the picture was a great success.
In the eighties – nineties, fans of Shelley could see her in the films “One”, “Portrait of a Lady”, “Roxanne”, “Frankenweeney”,
"Fourth floor" , "Manna of Heaven", etc.
Since 2002, the actress left the big movie. Seven years (from 1970 to 1977) her husband was producer Bernard Sampson, after the divorce Shelley lived for two years with composer and musician Paul Simon.