Adrienne Shelly

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...
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06/29/1966
Queens, NY
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Won the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival's Film Showcase Jury Award for Best Director in 2000 for her second feature, the romantic comedy I'll Take You There.
Co-founded the nonprofit theater troupe Missing Children, for which she penned the play Verbatim.
Intermittently suffered from Bell's palsy, which first appeared when she was 15.