Shelley Duvall Through the Years: Then and Now

Brewster McCloud, 1970

Legendary director Robert Altman, by chance, discovered Shelley Duvall, then a 20-year-old college student, while shooting in her home state of Texas. Taken by her striking, otherworldly look and personality (those eyes! that smile! that voice!), he offered her the role of Suzanne Davis in the film, eventually convincing her to abandon her studies. “I wanted to be a great scientist, not an actress!” she told Roger Ebert in a 1980 interview. Impressed with her innate talent, Altman went on to cast her in six additional films still celebrated today.

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