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Adrienne Shelly

Adrienne Shelly on the DVD cover of The Unbelievable Truth
Born June 24, 1966
Queens, New York, USA
Died November 1, 2006 (aged 40)
homicide
Manhattan, New York, USA

Adrienne Shelly (June 24, 1966[1] or June 30, 1966[2] – November 1, 2006), sometimes credited as Adrienne Shelley and by her birth name, Adrienne Levine, was an American actress, director, and screenwriter. Shelly was murdered in her office.[3] Image File history File links The_Unbelievable_Truth. ... June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 190 days remaining. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Queens is one of the five boroughs of New York City, USA. Geographically the largest borough in the city, Queens is home to many immigrants and the two major airports. ... NY redirects here. ... November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... NY redirects here. ... June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 190 days remaining. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ...

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Biography

Early Life

Of Russian Jewish descent,[4] Shelly was born in Queens, New York, to Sheldon M. Levine and Elaine Langbaum. She had two brothers, Jeff and Mark, and was raised on Long Island. She began performing when she was about 10[5] at a performing arts camp. She made her professional debut in a summer stock production of the musical Annie[4] while a student at Jericho High School[6] 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.[1] // Early History Tradition places Jews in southern Russia, Armenia, and Georgia since before the days of the First Temple, and records exist from the fourth century showing that there were Armenian cities possessing Jewish populations ranging from 10,000 to 30,000 along with substantial Jewish settlements in the Crimea. ... Queens is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States, and the most ethnically diverse county in the U.S. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island. ... NY redirects here. ... Map showing Long Island; to the north is Connecticut and to the west are New York City and New Jersey. ... The performing arts are those forms of art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artists own body, face and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some... Summer camp is a supervised program for children and teenagers conducted during the summer months in many countries. ... Summer Stock is an MGM musical made in 1950. ... Annie is a musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. ... Jericho High School is an American high school in the hamlet of Jericho in Nassau County, New York. ... Jericho is a hamlet (and census-designated place) located in Nassau County, New York. ... For similarly-named academic institutions, see Boston (disambiguation). ... Film production on location in Newark, New Jersey. ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. ...


Career

Shelly's career breakthrough came in her starring roles in independent filmmaker Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990),[7][8] 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.[9] An independent film, or indie film, is usually a low-budget film that is produced by a small movie studio. ... Hal Hartley (b. ... The Unbelievable Truth is a 1989 indie comedy-drama film written and directed by Hal Hartley starring Adrienne Shelly and Robert John Burke. ... Starring Adrienne Shelly and Martin Donovan, Trust is a dry, bleak comedy written and directed by Hal Hartley. ... A prize is an award given to a person or a group of people to recognise and reward actions or achievements. ... The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks alongside the Cannes, France, Venice, Italy, Berlin, Germany, and Toronto, Canada festivals as one of the most prestigious in the world. ... Waldo Pressman Salt (October 18, 1914 – March 7, 1987) was an American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. ...


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.[10] [8] Alexandra Elizabeth Ally Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American screen and stage actress, possibly best known for her roles in the Brat Pack films The Breakfast Club and St. ... US Comedy Arts Festival is a comedy festival held each year in Aspen, Colorado. ... Location    - Country Portugal    - Region Lisboa  - Subregion Península de Setúbal  - District or A.R. Setúbal Mayor Maria das Dores Meira  - Party CDU Area 171. ...


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.[1] In 2005 she co-starred in the film Factotum with Matt Dillon. Her last known work was writing and directing the film Waitress, starring Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion, [11] which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. [12] Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... Oz was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by HBO. The show, which aired for six seasons (1997-2003), was created by Tom Fontana and produced by Barry Levinson. ... Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... Factotum is a film directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the novel by Charles Bukowski. ... Matthew Raymond Matt Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Waitress is a movie starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Jeremy Sisto, and Andy Griffith. ... Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is a Golden Globe-winning American actress and dancer. ... Nathan Fillion (born March 27, 1971) is a Canadian actor. ... The 2007 Sundance Film Festival will be held from January 18 to January 28, 2007. ...


Personal life

Shelly, who took her professional surname after her late father's given name,[4] was married to Andrew Ostroy, the chairman and CEO of the marketing firm Belardi/Ostroy ALC.[13] They had a daughter, Sophie, who was two years old at the time of Shelly's death.[14] A family name, or surname, is that part of a persons name that indicates to what family he or she belongs. ... Look up Appendix:Most popular given names by country in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


Death

At about 5:45 p.m on November 1, 2006, Shelly's husband found her hanging by a bedsheet[15] from a shower rod in the bathtub [13] of an Abingdon Square apartment in the West Village section of Manhattan's Greenwich Village, in what at first appeared to be a suicide.[15] Shelly, who lived in Tribeca,[13] used the apartment as an office.[13] Ostroy had dropped her off at 9:30 a.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".[13] November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Abingdon Square Park is located in the New York City borough of Manhattan in Greenwich Village. ... // The West Village is part of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in the New York City Bourough of Manhattan, bounded by the Hudson River and roughly 6th Avenue, extending from 14th Street down to Houston Street. ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Hudson Street in TriBeCa. ... A doorman (more commonly referred to as a bouncer) is a term for a person who deals with the general security of a bar, pub or nightclub. ...


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 vigorously denied allegations that she could have committed suicide.[16] Post-mortem, postmortem and post mortem redirect here. ... The New York City Police Department is the largest municipal police force in the world, and has the primary responsibility for law enforcement and investigation within the five boroughs of New York City. ... Footprints in the sand of a beach. ...


Press reports on November 6, 2006 stated that police had arrested construction worker Diego Pillco, a 19-year-old illegal immigrant who confessed to killing Shelly after she complained about the noise he was making in the apartment below hers. Pillco said that he "was having a bad day."[17] Police said Pillco had made videos implicating himself in the murder, and as of November 7 was being held without bail for her murder.[18][19] November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Construction on the North Bytown Bridge in Ottawa, Canada. ... A confession is where a suspect in a crime admits their guilt to the crime. ... November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 54 days remaining. ... The word bail as a legal term means: Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that persons appearance for trial. ...


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.[20] [21]


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.[22][23] 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.[24] NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... The following is a list of Law & Order episodes from the series seventeenth season (2006-2007):[1] // Jesse L. Martin – Detective Ed Green Milena Govich – Detective Nina Cassady S. Epatha Merkerson – Lieutenant Anita Van Buren Sam Waterston – Jack McCoy Alana de la Garza – Connie Rubirosa Fred Dalton Thompson – Arthur Branch... The following is a list of Law & Order episodes from the series tenth season (1999-2000). ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (138th in leap years). ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Shelly died before learning her film, Waitress, had been accepted into the Sundance film festival. It currently has a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and has had rising box office takes each week. It is currently at #5 in the US.


Filmography

Acting

The Unbelievable Truth is a 1989 indie comedy-drama film written and directed by Hal Hartley starring Adrienne Shelly and Robert John Burke. ... Starring Adrienne Shelly and Martin Donovan, Trust is a dry, bleak comedy written and directed by Hal Hartley. ... Big Girls Dont Cry. ... HeXeD , adj. ... For the song see Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me is the fifth studio solo album released by American singer Gloria Estefan, but is the seventeenth overall, released in 1994. ... Mountain road with hairpin turns in the French Alps For other uses, see Road (disambiguation). ... Sleep With Me 1994 film starring Meg Tilly, Eric Stoltz and Craig Scheffer, good friends who become involved in a love triangle. ... Types of grind: a)axe b)saber c)flat d)hollow e)chisel The grind of an edge refers to the angle and curvature of that blades cross section. ... Ill Take You There is a number-one single recorded by soul/gospel family band The Staple Singers, released on Stax Records in 1972 (see 1972 in music). ... Rock The Boat is the second single from Aaliyahs third album Aaliyah. ... The storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789 during the French Revolution. ... The Sea may refer to: The Sea, a Booker Prize winning novel by John Banville. ... Factotum is a film directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the novel by Charles Bukowski. ... Waitress is a movie starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Jeremy Sisto, and Andy Griffith. ...

Writing and directing

Ill Take You There is a number-one single recorded by soul/gospel family band The Staple Singers, released on Stax Records in 1972 (see 1972 in music). ... Waitress is a movie starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Jeremy Sisto, and Andy Griffith. ...

References

  1. ^ a b c The New York Times (November 4, 2006): "Adrienne Shelly, 40, an Actress, Film Director and Screenwriter, Is Dead", by Dennis Hevesi
  2. ^ Hollywood.com, Inc. (1999-2006). Hollywood.com: Adrienne Shelly. Retrieved November 5, 2006.
  3. ^ An ‘Unbelievable’ Talent By Malcolm Jones Newsweek Web Commentary
  4. ^ a b c AOL LLC (2006). AOL Moviefone biography. Retrieved November 6, 2006.
  5. ^ MovieMaker Magazine (2006). Moviemaker interview with Shelly: "Suddenly Adrienne Shelly" by Tim Rhys, August 1996. Retrieved November 6, 2006.
  6. ^ Newsday Inc. (2006)."Remembering Talents of a Local Star". By Steven Snyder, with contribution from Rocco Parascandol. Retrieved November 5, 2006.
  7. ^ The International Herald Tribune (2006). Actress Adrienne Shelly found dead in New York City office. Retrieved November 3, 2006.
  8. ^ a b Internet Movie Database Inc. (1990-2006). Adrienne Shelly. Retrieved November 3, 2006.
  9. ^ Internet Movie Database Inc. (1990-2006). Awards for Trust. Retrieved November 5, 2006.
  10. ^ Internet Movie Database Inc. (1990-2006). Awards for I'll Take You There. Retrieved November 3, 2006.
  11. ^ CBC (2006). Actress Adrienne Shelly found dead. Retrieved November 3, 2006.
  12. ^ Sundance Film Festival 07 (2006). Sundance Film Festival Announces Films in the Premiers, Spectrum, New Frontier, Park City at Midnight and From the Sundance Collection Series (pdf). Retrieved December 18, 2006.
  13. ^ a b c d e New York Post  (November 3, 2006): "Indie-Film Star 'Suicide' Stunner" by Philip Messing, Mark Bulliet and Dan Mangan. Retrieved November 3, 2006.
  14. ^ Daily News (November 6, 2006): "Killer Staged Her 'Suicide'" by Alison Gendar, John Lauinger, Barbara Ross and Corky Siemaszko. Retrieved November 8, 2006.
  15. ^ a b Daily News (November 2, 2006): "Actress Found Hanged in Village Apartment" by Alison Gendar and Michael White. Retrieved November 3, 2006.
  16. ^ ABC Inc., WABC-TV New York (2006). "Husband: Actress-wife's death suspicious". Retrieved November 5, 2006.
  17. ^ New York Post (November 7, 2006): "Star's Suicide was Killer Cover-up", by Larry Celona, Murray Weiss and Dan Mangan. Retrieved November 13, 2006.
  18. ^ Newsday (date n.a.): "NYPD questions a person in death of actress Adrienne Shelly"
  19. ^ CBS Broadcasting Inc. (2006). WCBS-TV/Associated Press. "Brooklyn Man Charged With Murder Of Actress". Retrieved November 7, 2006.
  20. ^ Adrienne Shelly Foundation.
  21. ^ Multichannel Merchant (November 14, 2006): "Adrienne Shelly Foundation Established". Retrieved November 29, 2006.
  22. ^ New York Times Company (February 11, 2007). Murder, They Wrote by John Freeman Gill. Retrieved February 17, 2007.
  23. ^ TV Guide Online, Inc. (2007). Episode Detail: Melting Pot. Retrieved February 17, 2007.
  24. ^ CNET Networks, Inc. (2007). tv.com summary for Adrienne Shelly. Retrieved February 17, 2007.

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External links

  • Adrienne Shelly at the Internet Movie Database
  • The Adrienne Shelly Foundation
  • Biography for Adrienne Shelly at Yahoo! UK & Ireland
  • The New York Times (January 19, 2007): "Sundance Dream Most Notable for an Absence", by David Carr" (on final Shelley film)

 
 

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