 The American actress Shelley Duvall has died at her home in Texas. She was 75. She was best known for playing opposite an axe-wielding Jack Nicholson in the horror film The Shining. Lisa Mazimba reports. The Texas-born actress was known for playing distinctive and often eccentric characters, ranging from a spaced-out groupie in Robert Altman's Nashville to a magazine journalist in Woody Allen's Annie Hall.