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Shelley Duvall, ‘The Shining’ and ‘Popeye’ Actress, Dead at 75
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.
A protege of director Robert Altman, Duvall also appeared in films like Annie Hall and Time Bandits in addition to Emmy-nominated success as a children's television host Following Brewster McCloud, Duvall next co-starred in the filmmaker’s 1971 Western McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 1974’s Thieves Like Us, 1975’s country music epic Nashville, 1976’s Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History, and one of titular 3 Women in that 1977 psychological drama. Three years later, however, Duvall would land her most enduring role, co-starring alongside Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic The Shining, where she played tormented (both on-screen, and off-camera) wife Wendy Torrance in the Stephen King adaptation.
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