‘The Shining’ Actress Shelley Duvall Dead At 75

BLANCO, TX – Shelley Duvall best known for her role as Wendy Torrance in ‘The Shining’ has died at 75.

Reports say Duvall died in her sleep of complication from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas.

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FILE – Shelley Duvall is shown on Oct. 27, 1983, in Los Angeles. Duvall, whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” has died. She was 75. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac, File)

“My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley,’ Dan Gilroy, her life partner since 1989 said in a statement.