Shelley Duvall, the intrepid, Texas-born film star whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay within the movies of Robert Altman and who co-starred with Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, has died. She was 75.

Duvall died Thursday in her sleep at her dwelling in Blanco, Texas, her longtime companion, Dan Gilroy, introduced. The trigger was problems of diabetes, stated her buddy the publicist Gary Springer.

“My expensive, candy, fantastic life, companion and buddy left us final evening,” Gilroy stated in an announcement. “An excessive amount of struggling currently.  Now, she’s free. Fly away stunning Shelley.”

Duvall was attending junior faculty in Texas when Altman’s employees, getting ready to movie Brewster McCloud, encountered her as at a celebration in Houston in 1970.

She would go on to develop into an Altman common for the following decade, showing in his Western opus McCabe & Mrs. Miller, the sprawling, critically acclaimed Nashville, the Paul Newman automobile Buffalo Invoice and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s Historical past Lesson and the movement image model of Popeye alongside Robin Williams.

Emmy-nominated kids’s reveals

Duvall additionally appeared in a small function in Woody Allen’s Oscar-winning Annie Corridor, in addition to in Time Bandits and the Steve Martin comedy Roxanne.

Within the Nineteen Eighties, she helped create and star within the kids’s tv sequence Faerie Story Theatre in addition to its folklore followup, Shelley Duvall’s Tall Tales and Legends. The latter present in addition to the 1992 animated quick Shelley Duvall’s Bedtime Tales earned Emmy nominations.

In later years, Duvall encountered bodily and psychological well being challenges, showing on a controversial 2016 episode of Dr. Phil. Some tv viewers and critics took purpose on the present’s host for what they stated was an exploitative phase.