Adrienne Shelly

Quick Facts

Full Name	Adrienne Shelly
Occupation	Movie Actress
Date Of Birth	Jun 24, 1966(1966-06-24)
Age	58
Date Of Death	November 1, 2006, Greenwich Village, New York, NY
Birthplace	Queens
Country	United States
Birth City	New York State
Horoscope	Cancer

Adrienne Shelly Biography

Adrienne Shelly is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actress who was born on June 24, 1966 in Queens, New York State, United States. Actress, director and screenwriter who became known for her work in films such as The Unbelievable Truth and Trust.

She wrote, directed, and appeared with Ally Sheedy in a 1999 film called I’ll Take You There.

Shelly’s career breakthrough as an actress came when she was cast by independent filmmaker Hal Hartley as the lead in The Unbelievable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990). Trust was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, where Hartley’s script tied for the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Shelly also guest-starred in a number of television series including Law & Order, Oz and Homicide: Life on the Street, and played major roles in over two dozen off-Broadway plays, often at Manhattan’s Workhouse Theater. In 2005 she appeared in the film Factotum starring Matt Dillon.

During the 1990s, Shelly had segued toward a behind-the-camera career. She wrote and directed 1999’s I’ll Take You There, in which she appeared along with Ally Sheedy. She won a U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Film Discovery Jury Award in 2000 for direction of the film, and Prize of the City of Setúbal: Special Mention, at the Festróia (Tróia International Film Festival) held in Setúbal, Portugal, for best director. Her final work was writing, directing, co-set- and costume-designing, and acting in the film Waitress, starring Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Shelly’s daughter, Sophie, has a cameo at the end of the film.

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

Adrienne Shelly Net Worth

Adrienne Shelly is one of the richest Movie Actress from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Adrienne Shelly 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was raised on Long Island and started performing at age 10 at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center.

She attended Boston University as a film production major but dropped out her junior year and moved to New York.

Adrienne Levine (June 24, 1966 – November 1, 2006), better known by the stage name Adrienne Shelly (sometimes credited as Adrienne Shelley), was an American actress, film director and screenwriter. She became known for roles in independent films such as 1989’s The Unbelievable Truth and 1990’s Trust. She wrote, co-starred in, and directed the 2007 posthumously-released film Waitress.

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Who is Adrienne Shelly Dating?

According to our records, Adrienne Shelly married to Andy Ostroy. As of December 1, 2023, Adrienne Shelly’s is not dating anyone.

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Shelly’s film, Waitress, had been accepted into the 2007 Sundance Film Festival before her murder. The film, starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith and Shelly herself, was bought during the festival by Fox Searchlight Pictures for an amount between $4 million and $5 million (news accounts on the actual amount vary), and the film realized a final box-office draw of more than $19 million. Waitress maintains a 90% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Facts & Trivia

Adrienne Ranked on the list of most popular Movie Actress. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Adrienne Shelly celebrates birthday on June 24 of every year.

Following his wife’s death, Ostroy established the Adrienne Shelly Foundation, a non-profit organization that awards scholarships, production grants, finishing funds and living stipends through its partnerships with academic and filmmaking institutions NYU, Columbia University, Women in Film, IFP, AFI, Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute and the Nantucket Film Festival. One of its grant recipients, Cynthia Wade, won an Academy Award in 2008 for Freeheld, a short-subject documentary which the Foundation helped fund. As part of its annual awards, the Women Film Critics Circle gives the Adrienne Shelly Award to the film that “most passionately opposes violence against women”.

What happen to Adrienne Shelly?

They found her body hanging from a shower rod in the bathtub with a bed sheet around her neck. Although the door was unlocked and money was reportedly missing from her wallet, the NYPD apparently believed Shelly had taken her own life. An autopsy found she had died as a result of neck compression.

Is Waitress a true story?

The Heartbreaking True Story of Murdered Actress Adrienne Shelly – and How Her Legacy Lives on with Hit Broadway Musical Waitress.

Is Adrienne Shelly dead?

November 1, 2006

Was Adrienne Shelly famous?

Adrienne Shelly was a renowned actor and director. She starred in over twenty films, including Hal Hartley’s indie classics The Unbelievable Truth and Trust. She also wrote and directed several short and feature films, including the critically acclaimed Waitress. Adrienne was a devoted young mother and a doting wife.

Who really killed Adrienne Shelly?

The invitation from the Sundance Film Festival to showcase Waitress arrived on the same day that the police arrested Shelly’s killer: Diego Pilco , an undocumented 19-year-old Ecuadorian who had been doing construction work in the building.