Highest Rated: 97% Annie Hall (1977)
Lowest Rated: 15% Suburban Commando (1991)
Birthday: Jul 7, 1949
Birthplace: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Director Robert Altman discovered the gifted Shelley Duvall while she was attending college in Houston, TX and promptly cast her in her debut film "Brewster McCloud" (1970). She went on to make seven movies in all with Altman, from the sublimely brilliant "Nashville" (1975) and "3 Women" (1977), for which she won both a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award and an L.A. Film Critic's Association Award, to "Popeye" (1980), in which she starred as Olive Oyl opposite Robin Williams. Duvall showed herself particularly adept at playing kooky waifs and characters for whom everything goes wrong, like the trusting wife of Jack Nicholson's deteriorating writer in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" (1980). Among her many fine performances for television was her role in Joan Micklin Silver's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" for PBS' "Great American Short Story" series, considered by many the best adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald to the screen.
Highest rated movies
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Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Forest Hills | Mama (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 22% | | Manna From Heaven | Detective Dubrinski (Character) | $505.7K | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dreams in the Attic | Nellie (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | | The 4th Floor | Martha Stewart (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jingle Bells | Unknown (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | | Boltneck | Mrs. Stein (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 17% | | Casper Meets Wendy | Gabby (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 17% | | Tale of the Mummy | Edith Butros (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 31% | | Home Fries | Mrs. Jackson (Character) | $10.5M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | | Alone | Estelle (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | | Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework | Mrs. Fink (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight | Self | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | | Changing Habits | Sister Agatha (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 67% | | Twilight of the Ice Nymphs | Amelia Glahn (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 47% | | The Portrait of a Lady | Countess Gemini (Character) | $3.7M | 1996 |
| 62% | | The Underneath | Nurse (Character) | $386.9K | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Frogs! | Annie (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | | Backfield in Motion | Executive Producer | - | 1991 |
| 15% | | Suburban Commando | Jenny Wilcox (Character) | $6.6M | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | | Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme | Unknown (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 88% | | Roxanne | Dixie (Character) | $34.8M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Frog | Mrs. Anderson (Character), Executive Producer | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | | Frankenweenie | Susan Frankenstein (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | | Faerie Tale Theatre | Unknown (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 91% | | Time Bandits | Pansy (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 58% | | Popeye | Olive Oyl (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 83% | | The Shining | Winifred "Wendy" Torrance (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 85% | | 3 Women | Millie Lammoreaux (Character) | - | 1977 |
| 97% | | Annie Hall | Pam (Character) | - | 1977 |
| 65% | | Buffalo Bill and the Indians | The First Lady / | - | 1976 |
| 89% | | Nashville | L. A. Joan (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 84% | | Thieves Like Us | Keechie Mobley (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 85% | | Ida Coyle (Character) | - | 1971 | |
| 86% | | Brewster McCloud | Suzanne Davis (Character) | - | 1970 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hughleys | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| 40% | No Score Yet | Maggie Winters | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| 95% | 94% | Frasier | Caroline (Guest Voice) | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ray Bradbury Theater | Leota Bea (Character) | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Liz Christie (Guest Star) | 1973 |
