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18 Facts About Shelley Hack

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Shelley Marie Hack was born on July 6,1947 and is an American actress, model, producer, and political activist.

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Shelley Hack is best known as the face of Revlon's Charlie perfume from the mid-1970s until the early 1980s, and for her role as Tiffany Welles in the fourth season of Charlie's Angels.

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Shelley Hack's father was a Wall Street financial analyst, and her mother was a former Conover model.

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Shelley Hack graduated from Greenwich Academy and Smith College, where she spent her junior year studying archeology at the University of Sydney.

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Shelley Hack began her career as a teen fashion model whose first job put her on the cover of Glamour magazine.

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Shelley Hack beat out many competitors for the role, including Michelle Pfeiffer and Barbara Bach.

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Shelley Hack starred with Annette O'Toole and Meredith Baxter Birney in Vanities, a television production of the comedy-drama stage play about the lives, loves and friendship of three Texas cheerleaders starting from high school to post-college graduation; it aired as a part of Standing Room Only, a series on the premium-television channel HBO.

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Shelley Hack received positive reviews for her portrayal of Cathy Long in Martin Scorsese's film The King of Comedy.

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Shelley Hack had leading roles in two cult films: the comedy-horror film, Troll and the horror film The Stepfather.

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Shelley Hack was a regular on two short-lived TV series of the 1980s, Cutter to Houston and Jack and Mike.

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In 1984, Shelley Hack was hired to replace Paula Kelly and portray new public defender Christine Sullivan - who was going to be romantically involved with Judge Harry Stone - on the sitcom Night Court, But when the series started shooting, Shelley Hack and producer Reinhold Weege realized there was a problem.

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Shelley Hack completed a master's degree in business administration from New York Institute of Technology and shortly afterward retired from acting.

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In October 2000, appearing as herself, Shelley Hack returned to the Charlie's Angels Townsend Agency office as a guest host on Biography, which featured profiles of several Charlie's Angels stars during '"Hello Angels Week".

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In January 2008, Shelley Hack appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in the episode, "Classic Americana", that highlighted Shelley Hack as Revlon's Charlie perfume model in a 1976 television ad with Bobby Short at the piano.

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Shelley Hack became a voting registration and polling station supervisor in the 1997 elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina and produced the first-ever televised presidential debates there as well.

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Shelley Hack produced the debates in Sarajevo, Mostar, and the two in Banja Luka.

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Shelley Hack established herself as a media consultant for pre- and post-conflict countries.

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Shelley Hack has been married to film director and university professor Harry Winer since 1990.