Adrienne Shelly
Biography
Adrienne Shelly was an American actress, director and screenwriter whose breakthrough came in independent film, playing the lead in Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990), which earned a Grand Jury Prize nomination at Sundance. Born in Queens and raised on Long Island, she began performing as a child and studied film production at Boston University before leaving for Manhattan. She guest-starred on television series including Law & Order, Oz and Homicide: Life on the Street, appeared in more than two dozen off-Broadway plays, often at the Workhouse Theater, and acted in Factotum (2005). In the 1990s she moved behind the camera, writing and directing I'll Take You There, for which she won a jury award for direction at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in 2000. Her final film, Waitress (2007), which she wrote, directed and appeared in, premiered at Sundance after her death in 2006.
40years old at death
- Born Queens
- Died Manhattan
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- Also credited as Adrienne Levine
Movie Career
- Films
- 11
- Career span
- 32 years1989 to 2021
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Early training
Shelly began performing at about 10 years old at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center, where she took part in its performing arts training.
First role
Shelly's first professional role came in a summer stock staging of the musical Annie, which she performed while still a student at Jericho High School in Jericho, New York.
Big break
Shelly got her breakthrough when independent filmmaker Hal Hartley cast her as the lead in The Unbelievable Truth in 1989 and Trust in 1990.
Behind the camera
Shelly wrote and directed I'll Take You There in 1999 and appeared in it with Ally Sheedy. In 2000 she won a U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Film Discovery Jury Award for directing the film.
Behind the camera
Shelly wrote, directed, acted in and helped design sets and costumes for Waitress, her last film. Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion starred in it, and it first showed at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Adrienne Shelly movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Hal Hartley directed two of these films. Fourteen actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by Hal Hartley
Also two films together8 more actors
- Keri RussellAdrienne (2021) and Waitress (2007)
- Nathan FillionAdrienne (2021) and Waitress (2007)
- Cheryl HinesAdrienne (2021) and Waitress (2007)
- Tom ThonTrust (1990) and The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
- Chris CookeTrust (1990) and The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
- Jeff HowardTrust (1990) and The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
- Adelaide MillerSleep with Me (1994) and Lonely in America (1990)
- Mark Chandler BaileyTrust (1990) and The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.