|
Hot Videos
Female Celeb
Wallpapers
|
Adrienne Shelly (June 16, 1966 or June 30, 1966[2] – November 1, 2006), sometimes credited as Adrienne Shelley and by her birth name, Adrienne Levine, was an American actor, director, and screenwriter.
Personal life and career
Of Russian Jewish extraction, Adrienne Shelly was born in Queens, New York, USA and raised on Long Island. She began performing when she was about 10 at a performing arts camp. She made her professional debut in a summer stock production of the musical Annie while a student at Jericho High School in Jericho, New York. She went on to Boston University, majoring in film production, but dropped out after her junior year and moved to Manhattan. Shelly's career breakthrough came in her starring roles in independent filmmaker Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990), the latter of which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, where Hartley's script tied for the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
She appeared in a number of films during the 1990s, and as she segued toward a behind-the-camera career she wrote and directed others, including 1999's I'll Take You There, in which she appeared along with Ally Sheedy. She won a U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Film Discovery Jury Award in 2000 for direction of the film, and Prize of the City of Setúbal: Special Mention, at the Festróia (Tróia International Film Festival) held in Setúbal, Portugal for best director.
She also guest-starred in a number of television series including Law & Order, Oz, and Homicide: Life on the Street. She played major roles in over two dozen Off Broadway plays, often at Manhattan's Workhouse Theater. In 2005 she co-starred in the film Factotum with Matt Dillon. Her last known work was writing and directing the unreleased film Waitress, starring Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion, which will premier at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Shelly, who took her professional surname after her late father Shelly M. Levine's given name, was married to Andrew Ostroy, the chairman and CEO of the marketing firm Belardi/Ostroy ALC. They had a daughter, Sophie, who was two years old at the time of Shelly's death.
Death
At about 5:45 p.m on November 1, 2006, Shelly's husband found her hanging by a bedsheet from a shower rod in the bathtub of an Abingdon Square apartment in the West Village section of Manhattan's Greenwich Village, in what appeared to be a suicide. Shelly, who lived in Tribeca, used the apartment as an office. Ostroy had dropped her off at 9:30a.m. that day, and as the building's doorman told journalists, "He hadn't heard from her and he said it was odd not to hear from her, so he was nervous. And he asked me to go up to the apartment with him, so we went to the front door, and it was unlocked".
An autopsy was performed the following day. The New York City Police Department were suspicious of sneaker prints in the bathtub that did not match Shelly's shoes, who was found wearing only socks. Shelly's husband also indicated that there was money missing from Shelly's wallet. He also vigorously denied allegations that she could have committed suicide.
Press reports on November 6, 2006 stated that police had arrested construction worker Diego Pillco, a 19-year-old, who allegedly confessed to killing Shelly after she complained about the noise he was making in the apartment below hers. Police said Pillco had made videos implicating himself in the murder, and as of November 7 was being held without bail for her murder. Saying he "was having a bad day," Pillco confessed to the murder.
Post death
Following his wife's death, Ostroy established the Adrienne Shelly Foundation, a non-profit organization that will award film school scholarships and grants to women filmmakers.
Her murder inspired an episode of the US television network NBC crime drama Law & Order. Originally broadcast on 16 February 2007, the Season 17 episode entitled Melting Pot is a thinly-veiled and admitted dramatization of Shelly's murder. As noted previously, Shelly herself guest starred in a Season 10 episode of Law & Order entitled High & Low (17 May 2000), in which she portrayed the character Wendy Alston.
Partial filmography (acting)
* The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
* Trust (1990)
* Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992)
* Hexed (1993)
* Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me (1993)
* The Road Killers (1994)
* Teresa's Tattoo (1994)
* Road (1994)
* Sleep With Me (1994)
* Sudden Manhattan (1996)
* Grind (1996)
* Wrestling With Alligators (1999)
* I'll Take You There (1999)
* Dead Dog (2000)
* Rock the Boat (2000)(TV)
* Revolution #9 (2001)
* The Sea (2002)
* In the Company of Women (2004)
* Factotum (2005)
* Waitress (2006)
Filmography (writing and directing)
* Urban Legend (1994)
* Lois Lives a Little (1997)
* Sudden Manhattan (1997)
* I'll Take You There (1999)
* The Shadows of Bob and Zelda (1999)
* Waitress (2007)
| Latest news about Adrienne Shelly |
A Trailer for Adrienne Shelly's 'Serious Moonlight' - CinematicalWe're rapidly approaching the third anniversary of Adrienne Shelly's death. Although she spent almost twenty years in the business, Shelly was killed just as her career reached an inspiring new level with Waitress, the sweetly effective ... Continue reading
Basket of Kisses | Hammy lunch stuffAs you may recall from yesterday, Any is the founder of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation, which hosted the auction in which this lunch was a prize, and he is the widower of Adrienne Shelly. Andy is also a blogger and film producer, ... Continue reading
Basket of Kisses | We had lunch today with Jon HammAnd today we had lunch, the five of us–we were joined by Andy Ostroy, who is the founder of ASF and Adrienne Shelly's widower. What a charming, intelligent, lovely man he was. And seagirl!!! I cannot begin to tell you how much we liked ... Continue reading
Adrienne Shelly's Serious Moonlight Trailer with Meg Ryan ...Magnolia Pictures has debuted the official trailer for Serious Moonlight, the last screenplay written by the late Adrienne Shelly (Sudden Manhattan, Waitress) directed by her friend and actress Cheryl Hines. This comedy stars Meg Ryan, ... Continue reading
Arizona Reporter Newswire » SERIOUS MOONLIGHTIf you're thinking of what to do to bring back your lover and you have not yet seen Cheryl Hines's “Serious Moonlight,†written by the late Adrienne Shelly, consider Michael Haneke's “Funny Games,†a terrific thriller that finds two ... Continue reading
Honoring Adrienne Shelly in NYC - CinematicalThe murder of Adrienne Shelly was obviously not just a devastating loss to her friends and family, but to the people who followed her work eagerly from her early days as a star in Hal Hartley movies like The Unbelievable Truth and Trust ... Continue reading
2009 Holiday Movie Guide | Mad About Movies - OregonLive.com"Serious Moonlight" Based on a script by the late Adrienne Shelly, a marital comedy starring Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Justin Long and Kristen Bell and directed by Cheryl Hines ("Curb Your Enthusiasm"). (Dec. 4) lovelybones.JPG ... Continue reading
UL 486 Motherboard User Manual - TechFuels ForumAdrienne shelly. Junior Member. Join Date: Oct 2009. Posts: 4. iTrader: / %. Rep Power: 0 Adrienne shelly is on a distinguished road. Adrienne shelly is offline. Old 11-04-2009, 08:33 AM. UL 486 Motherboard User Manual ... Continue reading
Republicans Once Again Shamelessly Exploiting Terrorism For ...On another note, the film I produced, SERIOUS MOONLIGHT, which was written by my late wife Adrienne Shelly (WAITRESS), will have its US premiere and afterparty December 3rd in NYC. This event will also serve as the 2009 Adrienne Shelly ... Continue reading
Movie Review for Serious MoonlightOf course I'm hesitant to put any blame on the late Adrienne Shelly's screenwriting, but I am confident that if she were still here today, she'd have seen the problems and fixed them. Instead, her last piece fell into the hands of first ... Continue reading
Hollywood Actors Jessica alba Adrienne Shelly pictures and Adrienne Shelly biography
|
|
|
