
Shelley Alexis Duvall (July 7, 1949 – July 11, 2024) was an American actress known for her portrayal of distinctive, often eccentric characters. She was 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. Born in Texas, Duvall began acting after being discovered by director Robert Altman, who was impressed with her upbeat presence and cast her in the black comedy film Brewster McCloud (1970). Despite her hesitance towards becoming an actress, she continued to work with Altman, appearing in McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Thieves Like Us (1974). Her breakthrough came with Altman's cult film Nashville (1975), and she earned widespread acclaim with the drama 3 Women (1977), also 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. That same year, she appeared in a supporting role (as a writer for Rolling Stone) in Woody Allen's satirical romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977) and hosted Saturday Night Live. In the 1980s, Duvall became famous for her leading roles, which include Olive Oyl in Altman's live-action feature version of Popeye (1980) and Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's horror film The Shining (1980). She appeared in Terry Gilliam's fantasy film Time Bandits (1981), the short comedy horror film Frankenweenie (1984), and the comedy Roxanne (1987). She ventured into producing television programming aimed at children and youth in the latter half of the 1980s, notably creating and hosting the programs Faerie Tale Theatre (1982–1987), Tall Tales & Legends (1985–1987) (which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1988), and Nightmare Classics (1989). Duvall sporadically worked in acting throughout the 1990s, notably playing supporting roles in Steven Soderbergh's thriller The Underneath (1995) and the Henry James adaptation The Portrait of a Lady (1996), directed by Jane Campion. Her last performance was in Manna from Heaven (2002), after which she retired from acting. Duvall for many years kept out of the public media, keeping her personal life generally private; however, her health issues earned significant media coverage. After a 21-year hiatus from acting, Duvall returned to acting in the horror film The Forest Hills.

Davy Crockett

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

シャイニング

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd

Faerie Tale Theatre

The Paul Simon Special

Wishbone

ぎゃあ!!!リアル・モンスターズ

The Twilight Zone

アニー・ホール

The Princess and the Pea

そりゃないぜ!? フレイジャー

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Kubrick by Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

ナッシュビル

Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight

ギャンブラー

三人の女

Making 'The Shining'

L.A. Law

Cinderella

The Adventures of Shirley Holmes

サタデー・ナイト・ライブ

フランケンウィニー

Hansel and Gretel

The Ray Bradbury Theater

The Hughleys

バンデットQ

Sleeping Beauty

Cannon

ボウイ&キーチ

Alone

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

愛しのロクサーヌ

Beauty and the Beast

Brewster McCloud

The Little Mermaid

Little Red Riding Hood

The Tale of the Frog Prince

Thumbelina

ある貴婦人の肖像

Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle

The Dancing Princesses

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

キャスパー/マジカル・ウェンディ

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

Rumpelstiltskin

The 4th Floor

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

The Underneath

ポパイ

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Rapunzel

Fridays

Tall Tales & Legends

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

RocketMan

Home Fries

Big Monster on Campus

Puss in Boots

Jack and the Beanstalk

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme

Pinocchio

Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework

タロス・ザ・マミー/呪いの封印

Suburban Commando

Frog

The Nightingale

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Chipmunks Rockin' Through The Decades

Aliens for Breakfast

Frogs!

Mr. Bill's Real Life Adventures

Changing Habits

Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall

Johnny Appleseed

John Henry

Ponce de Leon

Pecos Bill

Twilight Theatre

Darlin' Clementine

Casey at the Bat

Annie Oakley

Manna from Heaven

Robert Altman: Giggle And Give In

The Princess Who Had Never Laughed

The Fairest of Them All

Earthquake Survival

Lily

Dreams in the Attic

The Snow Queen

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch

The Secret World of the Very Young

Spécial cinéma