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Shelley Duvall
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Executive Producer, Actor Born: July 7, 1949 in Houston, TX Biography:Wide-eyed, toothy, pencil-thin leading lady "Shelley Duvall" is the daughter of prominent Houston attorney Robert Duvall (not to be confused with "Robert Duvall", the actor). While attending a party in 1970, Duvall was spotted by director "Robert Altman", who cast her as a Superdome tour guide in his Texas-filmed "Brewster McCloud" (1970). She went on to play eccentric secondary roles in "Altman"'s "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" (1971) and "Nashville" (1975), and co-starred opposite another "Altman" "regular," "Keith Carradine", in "Thieves Like Us" (1974). She earned the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her portrayal of a garrulous, self-involved senior-citizen-center worker in "3 Women" (1977), then wrapped up the "Altman" phase of her career as Olive Oyl (a role she was surely born to play) in "Popeye" (1980). Of her non-"Altman" film assignments, her best included Kubrick's "The... Full Biography
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