Shelley Duvall, the actress who starred in several Robert Altman films and evaded an ax-swinging Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, died July 11 due to complications from diabetes. She was 75.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Duvall was discovered by Robert Altman, who cast her in his 1970 film, Brewster McCloud. The film would mark the first of seven projects that the pair would work on together over the next seven years, including 1975’s Nashville, 1977’s 3 Women, and 1980’s Popeye.