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Adrienne Shelly: Biography

Birth Name: Adrienne Levine
Birth Place: Queens, NY
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/30/1966, Cancer
Date of Death: 11/01/2006
Profession: Actor; director; screenwriter

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In the early '90s, this alluring beauty was the princess of the indie circuit, serving as muse to the Long Island Godard Hal Hartley, who cast Shelly in her first two films: The Unbelievable Truth and Trust. Si... read more

Adrienne Shelly: TV Guide News

Adrienne Shelly's Killer Gets 25 Years, Asks for "Forgiveness" | Today's News: Our Take | 2/15/2008
Diego Pillco, the 20-year-old construction worker who in November 2006 killed actress Adrienne Shelly (Waitress) after she caught him rummaging through her purse — and then tried to make it look like a suicide — on Thursday pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and as such will serve 25 years in prison. "I just want to ask for forgiveness [from Shelly's] family," Pillco said at the sentencing. In response, Supreme Court Justice Carol Berkman said, "I doubt you'll get that, sir." read more
DVD Tuesday: Felicity's Keri Russell Lights Up Waitress | Movie News | 11/27/2007
DVD Tuesday Babies and pie and Keri Russell as a Waitress with a heart of gold and a razor-sharp tongue I dont generally make it my business to recommend movies I merely like rather than love but theres something so sweet and slyly spirited about Waitress that I find myself making an exceptionSmall-town waitress Jenna Keri Russell works at Joes Pie Diner which is where a sweetie-pie like her was bound to wind up Shes kind to persnickety Old Joe Andy Griffith the nightmare patron the other girls do their best to avoid she bucks up mousey Dawn writer-director Adrienne Shelly cracks jokes with Becky Cheryl Hines of TVs Curb Your Enthusiasm and handles cranky boss Cal Lew Temple with no-nonsense aplombJenna isnt a pushover shes got a sharp eye and a sharper tongue Shes just fundamentally decent and looks for the decency in others And she can bake a cherry pie or a spaghetti pie or any other pie you could name and many you couldnt Shes given read more be the first to leave a comment
Curb Star Gets Serious, and More Movie News | Today's News: Our Take | 10/29/2007
Curb Your Enthusiasm's Cheryl Hines will make her feature-directing debut with the indie Serious Moonlight, from a screenplay by the late Adrienne Shelly.... Also per Variety, Michelle Williams and Gael Garcia Bernal are a New York City couple in crisis in Mammoth.... From the Reporter, Mark Ruffalo and Ethan Hawke play Boston-bred thugs in the true-life crime drama Real Men Cry. Amanda Peet is Hawke's missus.... Cuba Gooding Jr. is a paramilitary operative who discovers a conspiracy in the action thriller The Way of War. read more
At the Movies: Grindhouser Reboots Barbarella | Today's News: Our Take | 5/22/2007
Robert Rodriguez has signed on to direct a new film adaptation of the sci-fi comic-book series Barbarella, previously committed to celluloid by Jane Fonda circa 1968.... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will make its international premiere June 28 in Japan. Why there? "No special reason," a studio rep tells Reuters.... To benefit The Adrienne Shelly Foundation, CharityFolks.org is hosting an auction of Waitress memorabilia, including aprons designed by the likes of Keri Russell, Cheryl Hines, Scarlett Johansson and Tori Spelling. read more
Sold at Sundance: The Scariest Film Ever Conceived | Today's News: Our Take | 1/23/2007
Lions Gate and the Weinstein Co. have joined to pick up worldwide rights to Teeth, rookie screenwriter-director Mitchell Lichtenstein's Sundance Film Festival entry about a virgin possessing incisors on her hoo-ha. Yes, Mitchell Lichtenstein has issues dating back to prom night.Fox Searchlight, meanwhile, grabbed rights to Waitress, the final film helmed by the late Adrienne Shelly and starring Keri Russell. Waitress is slated for a 2007 release. read more

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Adrienne Shelly: TV Listings

Adrienne Shelly: Credits

Title	Year	Type
Waitress (Director)	2007	Movie
Waitress (Writer)	2007	Movie
Waitress (Actor - Dawn)	2007	Movie
Factotum (Actor - Jerry)	2006	Movie
Revolution #9 (Assoc. Producer)	2002	Movie