Shelley Duvall, the Hollywood actress famous for her roles in ‘The Shining’, ‘Annie Hall’, and ‘Nashville’, has passed on.
Dan Gilroy, the filmmaker and a longtime friend of Duvall, confirmed her demise to The Hollywood Reporter.
The actress died on Thursday at the age of 75.
“My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley,” Gilroy said.
Gilroy said the film star died in her sleep at home in Blanco, Texas. The cause of death was complications from diabetes, said Gary Springer, her friend and publicist.
Duvall was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on July 7, 1949. She was famous for her work with director Robert Altman, starring in seven of his movies including ‘McCabe + Mrs Miller’, ‘Nashville’, ‘Buffalo Bill and the ‘Indians’ and ‘3 Women’.
She, however, took a lengthy break from acting and set up her own production company Think Entertainment in 1987.
Her acting roles also started to reduce in the 1990s to 2002.
In 2022 — about six years after admitting she was “very sick” with mental health problems — the movie star returned to the screen with a role in ‘The Forest Hills’.
The New York Times attributed her apparent disappearance to the impact of a 1994 earthquake that damaged her Los Angeles home, and the stress of her brother having cancer.
Speaking about her decade-long hiatus in May, Duvall said “It was violence”.
Issues surrounding her health status were raised when she appeared on the TV talk show by Dr Phil in 2016.
She revealed then that she was struggling with her sleep due to a pain in her spinal cord, and some of her internal organs.
“I need help getting back to my house that I should not have left because it is my home state. In spite of whoever lived there before me, it became my house when I purchased it. If I say I am healthy, first thing they would do is hurt me,” she said.
“They compromised my spinal cord…”
Reacting, Gilroy told the New York Times that she had become “paranoid and just kind of delusional”.
Duvall received several accolades including nominations for a British Academy Film Award and two Primetime Emmys.
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