Shelley Duvall played Wendy Torrance in the horror classic “The Shining”, was one of director Robert Altman’s favorites and had a minor role in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall”. She has now passed away at the age of 75.
Shelley Duvall was best known for her role in Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel “The Shining” as Wendy, the wife of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), who is slowly losing her mind in an isolated hotel.
Playing the role took a toll on Duvall. In an interview from the 80s, she said that she cried for hours a day for several weeks because of Kubrick.
“I will never give so much again. If you want to inflict pain and call it art, sure. But not with me”.
Shelley Duvall has also played in several films by director Robert Altman such as “Nashville” and “Some are thieves”.
Left Hollywood
In the mid-90s, Duvall left Hollywood and the film industry and moved to his home state of Texas.
After staying out of the limelight for about 20 years, she appeared on television for an interview in Dr. Phil 2016. In the interview it is clear that Duvall suffers from mental illness and Phil McGraw was heavily criticized for lack of ethics after the show aired.
In a 2021 interview with Shelley Duvall in The Hollywood Reporter, she commented on the interview for the first time.
“I learned what kind of person he was the hard way.”
In 2022, she returned to acting one last time in the horror film “Forrest Hill”.
Shelley Duvall died in her sleep as a result of complications from her diabetes, writes the Hollywood Reporter with reference to Duvall’s partner Dan Gilroy.
