Adrienne Shelly (née Levine; June 24, 1966 – November 1, 2006) was an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She became known from acting in independent films such as Hal Hartley 's The Unbelievable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990).

Dec 21, 2021 · Adrienne Shelly was a rising screenwriter, filmmaker and a mom when she was killed by a robber. Here is her tragic murder explained.

Dec 1, 2021 · In a heartbreaking scene from “Adrienne,” the documentary — premiering Wednesday on HBO — Ostroy directed about his late wife, actress Adrienne Shelly, he shows some of those pictures to the...

Adrienne Shelly. Actress: Waitress. The late Adrienne Shelly was born in Queens, New York, to Elaine Langbaum and Sheldon Levine. After graduating Jericho High School in Jericho, New York, she enrolled at Boston University and majored in film production.

May 5, 2016 · On Nov.1, 2006, Ostroy found Shelly, 40, hanging from a shower rod in the Manhattan apartment where she worked and wrote her scripts. Five days later, police arrested Diego Pillco, a...

Nov 30, 2022 · Adrienne Shelly was a small woman — a dynamo, you might say — who set out to be an actress and a director, and achieved both before dying tragically at age 40. Poised on the brink of a promising directing career, she hadn’t yet received word that her film Waitress had been accepted into the 2007 Sundance Film Festival when she was killed.

Feb 22, 2022 · On Halloween night in 2006, Adrienne Shelly – one of the most recognizable faces of 1990s independent cinema – was throwing a party for her three-year-old daughter.

Nov 30, 2021 · Fifteen years after Adrienne Shelly’s life was cut short, the actress and filmmaker is getting another moment in the spotlight, thanks to an HBO documentary directed by her husband, Andy Ostroy.

Dec 11, 2021 · It’s an early scene in “Adrienne,” a new HBO documentary directed by Ostroy that explores the life of his wife and Sophie’s mother, Adrienne Shelly — the actor and filmmaker best known for...

Adrienne’s film career launched in 1988 with her starring role in director Hal Hartley’s acclaimed The Unbelievable Truth, followed by the classic Trust two years later. She appeared in over twenty other films, including 2005’s Factotum with Matt Dillon.