Shelley Duvall, the actress who captivated moviegoers and brought wide-eyed terror to Stanley Kubrick’s 'The Shining,' has died at the age of 75.
, adding that she died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at their home in Blanco, Texas, where Duvall moved to after leaving Hollywood in the mid-Nineties.
“My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley,” Gilroy said in a statement. The Fort Worth, Texas-born Duvall stumbled into a movie career in 1970 when she met director Robert Altman while he was shootingin the Lone Star State; he subsequently cast Duvall in the supporting role of an Astrodome tour guide. That black comedy began a lengthy collaboration between the director and the actress, with Duvall appearing in seven of Altman’s films over the next decade.in that 1977 psychological drama.
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