Shelley Duvall, best known for her role in The Shining, has died at the age of 75.
She died in her sleep from complications of diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas, her partner told The Hollywood Reporter.
"My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she's free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley," Dan Gilroy said.
Duvall began her career on the big screen in 1970 in Brewster McCloud, the first of seven films she went on to make with the filmmaker Robert Altman.
The star gained widespread recognition in many of his movies, including Nashville and 3 Women - with the latter earning her the best actress wward at the Cannes Film Festival - and for her portrayal of Olive Oyl in Popeye alongside Robin Williams. She also starred in Woody Allen's Annie Hall.
But it is her iconic performance as a terror-stricken wife and mother in classic 1980 horror The Shining for which she is best known, playing Wendy Torrance alongside Jack Nicholson in the Stanley Kubrick adaptation of the Stephen King novel.
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