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Shelley Alexis Duvall (born July 7, 1949) 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.

Duvall was born in Houston, Texas and graduated from Waltrip High School. 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). 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 (1980). Jack Nicholson states in the documentary Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures that Kubrick was great to work with, but that he was "a different director" with Duvall.

From 1982-1987, Duvall produced and acted in a children's television series for Showtime called Faerie Tale Theatre. The one hour episodes re-told popular fairy tales.

Filmography

• 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 (1987) (TV)
• Roxanne (1987)
• Booker (1984) (TV)
• Frankenweenie (1984)
• Time Bandits (1981)
• Popeye (1980)
• Faerie Tale Theatre (1982-1987)(TV)
• 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)
• Thieves Like Us (1974)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
• Brewster McCloud (1970)

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