Adrienne Shelly's Death

The movie actress Adrienne Shelly died at the age of 40. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Actress, director and screenwriter who became known for her work in films such as The Unbelievable Truth and Trust.

She was married to Andrew Ostroy and they had a daughter named Sophie in 2003.

When Adrienne Shelly, an actress, was found dead in her Greenwich Village office last week, the police suspected suicide. Her body, with a sheet tied around her neck, was hanging from the shower curtain rod in the office bathroom.

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I’ve worked with a lot of directors who really don’t have a sense of what the hell they want.

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Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

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I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don’t see them as chess pieces.

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I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy – the kind of kid who ran into a corner and cried on parents’ visiting day.

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The way I see it is that love can put an end to this bureaucracy people go through in their relationships. But it can’t blind you to the fact that maybe there are bombs, there are problems and the ozone layer is depleting.