 alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, diet, and infections. The Shining star Shelley Duvall has died at the age of 75. Duvall, who shot to international fame when she starred as Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's iconic 1980 adaption of Stephen King's horror novel, died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas. She did a great job in that movie.