Acting heaven opens the doors for 75-year-old Shelley Duvall, known from Nashville or the film adaptation of Enlightenment by Stanley Kubrick.
The actress, who was scared to death by Jack Nicholson from a chain during the filming of Enlightenment, died today following long-term health complications related to diabetes. Born in 1949 in Houston, Texas, she first got into acting in 1970, when director Robert Altman noticed her and cast her in one of the supporting roles in the film Brewster McCloud.
(A legendary scene with even more legendary performances, Photo: Warner Bros.)
She worked with the director repeatedly in the following years. She even won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in France in 1977 for her performance in the film Three Women, but without a doubt her most famous, if you will, “most troubled” role, she played in the aforementioned Enlightenment in 1980. In the new millennium, she withdrew into seclusion and returned to acting only in 2023, when she appeared in the horror film The Forest Hills, which thus remains her last role. Honor to her memory and sincere condolences to the bereaved.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter