American actress Shelley Duvall has died at the age of 75. She appeared in dozens of feature films, often playing a distant and somewhat eccentric woman. Duvall died in her sleep at her home in Texas from diabetes, her husband said.

“We have left my beloved and beautiful friend and life partner,” said her husband Dan Gilroy, with whom she had been together since 1989. “She has been through so much lately, and now she is free. Fly away, beautiful Shelly.”

Duvall is best known for her role in the psychological horror film the shiningStanley Kubrick’s classic film from 1980. She plays Wendy Torrance, who, with her husband Jack, played by Jack Nicholson, takes care of a remote and completely abandoned hotel. In the film, Nicholson slowly loses his mind and turns on his wife and son.

A memorable scene from the movie is when Jack chases Wendy with an axe. She locks herself in the bathroom and Jack tries to break in.

Later, Duvall said the shooting was traumatic for her. Interview She told People Magazine in 1981 that director Kubrick made her cry 12 hours a day for weeks. “I would never give that kind of money for any role again,” she said at the time. “If you want to take pain and call it art, go ahead, but not with me.”

In 2021, she recalled that time to The Hollywood Reporter. To get into the role, she listened to sad songs or thought about a bad event in her life. “But after a while, your body starts to defend itself. It says, ‘Stop doing this to yourself. I don’t want to cry every day.’”

According to her, it was devastating to wake up early in the morning knowing that she would have to cry all day because it was planned in the recordings. “I don’t know how I managed to do it.” According to her, she had to replay the painful scene 175 times before it was approved for recording.

Duvall was discovered by director Robert Altman and starred in a number of his films, including NashvilleShe also played a supporting role in the 1977 film Annie Halldirected by Woody Allen.

Another well-known role for Duvall was in Popeye From 1980. She played the titular character Olive Oyl alongside lead actor Robin Williams.

She has been out of the spotlight for years since the 1990s. In 2016, she appeared on Dr. Phil’s TV show, where she said she had suffered from depression for a long time.

Her first role in over twenty years was in 2022, when she briefly appeared in the horror film forest hills From director Scott Goldberg.

Duvall was born on July 7, 1949, in Fort Worth, Texas. She was the eldest of four children. She initially received a science education and was interested in nutrition. At the age of 20, she was offered a role in a film.

She initially declined. But as she was repeatedly approached for screen testing, she decided to change her mind. “Maybe I’m an actress,” she said at the time.