 She was 75 years old. And while The Shining was her best-known role, NPR's Andrew Limbaugh reports she had a remarkable career, especially for someone who didn't want to be an actor in the first place. Yes, Shelley Duvall's performance as Wendy Torrance in The Shining is known for those big, expressive, horrifying scenes of her screaming and crying. And we'll get to those, but there's maybe nothing scarier than the scene early on in the movie.