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Shelley 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). The actress and director would openly argue on set, and it is said that the perfectionist Kubrick once demanded she perform 127 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 (Fairie Tale Theatre). She still occasionally works in television and film and most recently appears in Dark Water (2005).

 Manna from Heaven (2002) .... Detective Dubrinski
Big Monster on Campus (2000) .... Mrs. Stein
... aka Boltneck (USA: video title)
... aka Teen Monster
Dreams in the Attic (2000) .... Nellie

"The Hughleys"
- Storm o' the Century (1999) TV Episode .... Mrs. Crump
The 4th Floor (1999) .... Martha Stewart
"Maggie Winters"
- Dinner at Rachel's (1998) TV Episode .... Muriel
Home Fries (1998) .... Mrs. Jackson
Casper Meets Wendy (1998) (TV) .... Gabby
Tale of the Mummy (1998) .... Edith Butros
... aka Talos the Mummy (Europe: English title) (UK: video title) (USA: working title)
... aka Russell Mulcahy's Tale of the Mummy (USA: complete title)
Alone (1997) (TV) .... Estelle
... aka Horton Foote's Alone (USA: complete title)
Rocket Man (1997) (uncredited) .... Mrs. Randall
... aka RocketMan
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997) .... Amelia Glahn
Changing Habits (1997) .... Sister Agatha
Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework (1997) .... Mrs. Fink
"The Adventures of Shirley Holmes"
- The Case of the Wannabe Witch (1997) TV Episode .... Alice Flitt
The Portrait of a Lady (1996) .... Countess Gemini
"Frasier"
- Dark Victory (1995) TV Episode (voice) .... Caroline
Underneath (1995) .... Nurse
... aka The Underneath (USA: promotional title)
"Aaahh!!! Real Monsters" (1994) TV Series (voice) .... Ocra
"Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle"
- Episode dated 5 July 1994 (1994) TV Episode
"L.A. Law"
- Tunnel of Love (1994) TV Episode .... Margo Stanton
"The Ray Bradbury Theater"
... aka Monde fantastique de Ray Bradbury, Le (Canada: French title)
... aka Mystery Theatre (UK: rerun title)
... aka Ray Bradbury présente (France)
... aka The Bradbury Trilogy (UK: rerun title)
... aka The Ray Bradbury Theatre (UK)
- The Tombstone (1992) TV Episode .... Leota Bean
"Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories" (1992) TV Series .... Host
Suburban Commando (1991) .... Jenny Wilcox
Frogs! (1991) (TV) .... Annie
... aka Frogs (USA: video box title)
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990) (TV) .... Little Bo Peep

Roxanne (1987) .... Dixie
Frog (1987) (TV) .... Mrs. Anderson
Shelley Duvall Presents: American Tall Tales and Legends: John Henry (1987) (TV) .... Narrator
"The Twilight Zone"
- A Saucer of Loneliness (1986) TV Episode .... Margaret
"Faerie Tale Theatre" .... Host, Narrator, various
... aka Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre (USA)
- Puss in Boots (1985) TV Episode .... Narrator
- The Princess and the Pea (1984) TV Episode .... Host, Narrator, various
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1984) TV Episode .... Host/Narrator/Various
- Rapunzel (1983) TV Episode .... Marie/Rapunzel
- Rumpelstiltskin (1982) TV Episode .... The Miller's Daughter
"Tall Tales and Legends"
... aka Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends (USA: complete title)
- My Darlin' Clementine (1985) TV Episode .... Clementine
Frankenweenie (1984) .... Susan Frankenstein
Booker (1984) (TV) .... Laura
"Twilight Theater"
... aka Steve Martin's Twilight Theater (USA: complete title)
- Episode #1.1 (1982) TV Episode
Time Bandits (1981) .... Dame Pansy/Pansy
Popeye (1980) .... Olive Oyl
The Shining (1980) .... Wendy Torrance
... aka Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'

3 Women (1977) .... Mildred "Millie" Lammoreaux
... aka Robert Altman's 3 Women (USA: complete title)
... aka Three Women (USA)
"Saturday Night Live"
... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: original title)
... aka SNL
... aka SNL 25 (USA: new title)
... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: new title)
- Episode #2.22 (1977) TV Episode .... Host
Annie Hall (1977) .... Pam
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976) (TV) .... Bernice
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) .... Mrs. Cleveland
... aka Buffalo Bill and the Indians
"Baretta"
- Aggie (1976) TV Episode .... Aggie
Nashville (1975) .... Marthe aka "L. A. Joan"
Thieves Like Us (1974) .... Keechie Mobley
"Love, American Style"
- Love and the Mind Reader/Love and the Mr. and Mrs./Love and the Soap Opera (1973) TV Episode .... (segment "Love and the Mr. and Mrs.")
"Cannon"
- The Seventh Grave (1973) TV Episode .... Liz Christie
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) .... Ida Coyle
Brewster McCloud (1970) .... Suzanne Davis