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Shelley Duvall is an award winning American film
and television actress who began her career in the
1970s playing quirky and waif-like characters in
the movies of Robert Altman, and eventually
starred in movies by Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick,
Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton.  

Born July 7, 1949 in Houston, Texas, Duvall was
working as a cosmetics saleswoman at a Houston
Foley's when she was discovered at a party by
production scouts for Altman's Brewster McCloud
(1970). After a tough interview with Altman, she
later won the lead role of Suzanne, the
free-spirited love interest to Bud Cort's
reclusive Brewster.  Altman was impressed enough
with Duvall's work to cast the young actress in
his next films, including McCabe & Mrs. Miller
(1971), Thieves Like Us (1974), and Nashville
(1975 movie)|Nashville (1975).  In 1977 Duvall was
named Best Actress by the Cannes Film Festival and
the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her
portrayal of the delusional Millie Lammoreaux in
Altman's 3 Women.  

That same year Duvall appeared in Annie Hall
playing Woody Allen's one-night stand.  Her next
role would be Wendy opposite Jack Nicholson in
Kubrick's The Shining (film)|The Shining (1980). 
The actress and director would openly argue on
set, and it is said that the Perfectionism
(psychology)|perfectionist Kubrick once demanded
she perform 127 take|takes for a single scene. 

Starting in the early 1980s Duvall began to act in
and produce television shows for children, often
based on popular fairy tales.  She still
occasionally works in television and film and most
recently appears in Dark Water (2005 film)|Dark
Water (2005). 

==Filmography==

*Dark Water (2005 film)|Dark Water (2005)
*Under the Mimosa (2001) 
*Manna from Heaven (film) (2001) 
*Dreams in the Attic (2000) 
*The 4th Floor (1999) 
*Boltneck (2000) 
*Home Fries (1998) 
*Casper Meets Wendy (1998) (TV) 
*Tale of the Mummy (1998) 
*Changing Habits (1997) 
*My Teacher Ate My Homework (1997) 
*Horton Foote's Alone (1997) 
*Rocket Man (1997) 
*Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997) 
*The Portrait of a Lady (1996) 
*Underneath (1995) 
*Frogs! (1991) 
*Suburban Commando (1991) 
*Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990)(TV) 

*Frog (film)|Frog (1987) (TV) 
*Roxanne (movie)|Roxanne (1987) 
*Booker (TV movie)|Booker (1984) (TV) 
*Frankenweenie (1984)
*Rapunzel (1981 movie)|Rapunzel (1981)(TV) 
*Time Bandits (1981) 
*Popeye (1980) 
*Rumpelstiltskin (1980)|Rumpelstiltskin (1980)(TV)

*The Shining (film)|The Shining (1980) 
*3 Women (1977) 
*Annie Hall (1977) 
*Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976) (TV) 
*Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's
History Lesson (1976) 
*Nashville (1975 movie)|Nashville (1975) 
*Thieves Like Us (1974) 
*McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) 
*Brewster McCloud (1970)



==External links==
*http://www.geocities.com/shelleyduvall/ Shelley
Duvall fansite
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