Shelley Alexis Duvall was born on July 7,1949 and is an American actress and producer who is known for her portrayals of distinct, often eccentric characters.
32 Facts About Shelley Duvall
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Shelley Duvall is the recipient of several accolades, including a Cannes Film Festival Award and a Peabody Award, and nominations for a British Academy Film Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Shelley Duvall's breakthrough came with Altman's cult film Nashville, and she earned widespread acclaim with the drama 3 Women, directed by Altman, for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and earned a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
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Shelley Duvall appeared in Terry Gilliam's fantasy film Time Bandits, the short comedy horror film Frankenweenie and the comedy Roxanne.
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Shelley Duvall sporadically worked in acting throughout the 1990s, notably playing supporting roles in Steven Soderbergh's thriller The Underneath and the Henry James adaptation The Portrait of a Lady, directed by Jane Campion.
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Shelley Alexis Duvall was born on July 7,1949, in Fort Worth, Texas, the first child of Bobbie Ruth Crawford, a real estate broker, and Robert Richardson "Bobby" Duvall, a cattle auctioneer-turned-lawyer.
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Shelley Duvall spent her first years living in various locations throughout Texas due to her father's work, before the family settled in Houston when she was five years old.
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Shelley Duvall was an artistic and energetic young child, eventually earning the nickname "Manic Mouse" from her mother.
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Shelley Duvall became interested in science at a young age, and as a teenager aspired to become a scientist.
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Shelley Duvall flew to Hollywood and subsequently appeared in the film as the free-spirited love interest to Bud Cort's reclusive Brewster.
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Shelley Duvall appeared as a spaced-out groupie in Altman's ensemble comedy Nashville, which was a critical and commercial success, and a sympathetic Wild West woman in Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson.
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In 1977, Shelley Duvall starred as Mildred "Millie" Lammoreaux in Robert Altman's psychological thriller 3 Women, portraying a woman living in a dreary California desert town.
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In spite of the film not being a major box-office success, it received critical acclaim, and Shelley Duvall's performance was lauded by critics.
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Texas Monthly critics Marie Brenner and Jesse Kornbluth praised Shelley Duvall for giving an "extraordinary performance".
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Shelley Duvall's performance garnered the award for Best Actress at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival and the LAFCA Award for Best Actress, as well as a BAFTA nomination.
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Shelley Duvall next appeared in a minor role in Woody Allen's Annie Hall.
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Kubrick intentionally isolated Shelley Duvall, and went through exhausting shoots, such as the baseball bat scene, which she had performed 127 times.
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Shelley Duvall looks and sounds like almost nobody else, and if it is true that she was born to play the character Olive Oyl, it is true that she has possibly played more really different kinds of characters than almost any other young actress of the 1970s.
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In 1982, Shelley Duvall narrated, hosted and was executive producer of the children's television program Faerie Tale Theatre.
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Since the program's first episode "The Frog Prince", which starred Robin Williams and Teri Garr, Shelley Duvall produced 27 hour-long episodes of the program.
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Shelley Duvall landed roles in films and television series: the mother of a boy whose dog is struck by car in Tim Burton's short film Frankenweenie, and as Laura Burroughs in Booker, a biographical television short based on the life of Booker T Washington, directed by Stan Lathan.
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In 1988, Shelley Duvall founded a new production company called Think Entertainment to develop programs and television movies for cable channels.
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Shelley Duvall created Nightmare Classics, a third Showtime anthology series that featured adaptations of well-known horror stories by authors including Edgar Allan Poe.
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In 1991, Shelley Duvall portrayed Jenny Wilcox, the wife of Charlie Wilcox in the Hulk Hogan action-adventure film Suburban Commando.
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Shelley Duvall produced a fifth series for Showtime, Mrs Piggle Wiggle, before selling Think Entertainment in 1993 and retiring as a producer.
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Shelley Duvall continued to make film and television appearances throughout the late-1990s.
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However, their marriage disintegrated as Shelley Duvall's acting career accelerated, leading to their divorce in 1974.
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Shelley Duvall has been in a relationship with musician and former Breakfast Club lead vocalist Dan Gilroy since 1989.
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Shelley Duvall stated that when she returned to her home state of Texas in 1994 to shoot the Steven Soderbergh film The Underneath, she made the decision to move back to the state.
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In November 2016, Shelley Duvall agreed to be interviewed by Phil McGraw on his daytime talk show Dr Phil.
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The segment received significant criticism from the public, with many suggesting that Shelley Duvall was being exploited.
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Anjelica Huston, who was dating Jack Nicholson at the time, believed that Shelley Duvall was fully committed to the role and had even rented a small apartment in order to be close to the set.