Adrienne Shelly

Born: 1966-06-24

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Adrienne Shelly (June 24, 1966 – November 1, 2006), sometimes credited as Adrienne Shelley, was an American actress, director and screenwriter. Making her name in independent films such as 1989's The Unbelievable Truth and 1990's Trust, Shelly transitioned to a writing and directing career in subsequent years. She wrote, co-starred in, and directed the 2007 film Waitress, which won five awards, including the Jury Prize at the Sarasota Film Festival for narrative feature, and the Audience and Feature Film awards at the Newport Beach Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adrienne Shelly, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Waitress

as Dawn
Released: 2007-05-25

Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her...

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Factotum

as Jerry
Released: 2005-04-25

This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles...

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Sleep with Me

as Pamela
Released: 1994-09-23

Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and...

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Trust

as Maria Coughlin
Released: 1990-09-09

After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly...

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The Road Killers

as Red
Released: 1994-05-07

After a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation...

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The Unbelievable Truth

as Audry
Released: 1990-07-20

After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo....

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Hexed

as Gloria O'Connor
Released: 1993-01-22

Lowly hotel clerk Matthew Welch stumbles unto a chance to go on a date with supermodel Hexina by...

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Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even

as Stephanie
Released: 1992-05-08

A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to...

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Searching for Debra Winger

as Self
Released: 2002-07-13

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in...

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Adrienne

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2021-11-14

As the muse of Hal Hartley’s indie classics and as writer/director of the critically acclaimed...

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Grind

as Janey
Released: 1997-04-11

When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive...

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Sudden Manhattan

as Donna
Released: 1996-10-11

Twenty-something Donna is jobless, single and broke. On a fateful day, reality turns itself...

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Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me

as Dannie
Released: 1992-05-21

Eli is a burglar who is caught in the act by Twinkle, an heiress who coerces him into a sexual...

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The Atlantis Conspiracy

as Samantha
Released: 2001-01-01

Lauren Marcus (Amanda Donohoe) reluctantly moves back to New York City and is forced to decide...

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Teresa's Tattoo

as Teresa / Gloria
Released: 1994-03-15

Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who...

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Wrestling with Alligators

as Mary
Released: 1998-01-18

All that Maddy Hawkins has ever wanted was a family she could call her own. Even in 1959, the...

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Opera No. 1

as Fairy #2
Released: 1994-01-02

Short film by Hal Hartley with Parker Posey and Adrienne Shelley.

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Revolution #9

as Kim Kelly
Released: 2002-11-15

A handsome and successful young man with a lovely fiancée, James Jackson seems to have...

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I'll Take You There

as Lucy
Released: 1999-09-03

Still nursing wounds from a breakup, a woman is forced by her sister into a blind date that...

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Lonely in America

as Woman in Laundromat
Released: 1990-09-30

An East Indian native immigrates to New York City and stumbles his way onto the corporate...

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Tiger: His Fall & Rise

as Terry
Released: 2004-05-11

A small rubber frog named Tiger becomes a major singing star overnight and has to cope with the...

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Upon Reflection: The Making of Trust

as Self
Released: 2005-01-01

An 18-minute documentary made in 2005 by perennial Hartley actor D.J. Mendel, reunites the...

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Homicide: Life on the Street

as Tanya Quinn
First aired: 1993-01-31

An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore...

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Law & Order

as Wendy Alston
First aired: 1990-09-13

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...

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Oz

as Sarah
First aired: 1997-07-12

The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum...

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Early Edition

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-09-28

Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives...

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