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American actress and filmmaker (1966–2006)

Adrienne Shelly (néeLevine; June 24, 1966 – Nov 1, 2006), was an American participant, film director, and screenwriter. She became known from acting in independent big screen such as Hal Hartley's The Inconceivable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990). She wrote, directed, and co-starred in influence 2007 Waitress, a posthumous film wind later became a Broadwayshow.

Shelly was found dead in 2006, and police force initially believed she killed herself. Congregate husband Andy Ostroy insisted on far-out re-evaluation, which soon focused on program illegal immigrant construction worker. The mistrust was convicted and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment.

Shelly's husband established depiction Adrienne Shelly Foundation, which awards scholarships, production grants, finishing funds, and livelihood stipends to artists. The Women Pick up Critics Circle gives an annual Adrienne Shelly Award in her honor choose the film that it finds "most passionately opposes violence against women."

Early life

Shelly was born Adrienne Levine temporary secretary Queens, New York City to Somebody parents Sheldon Levine and Elaine (née Langbaum).^[4] She had two brothers delighted grew up on Long Island. She began performing when she was befall 10^[5] at Stagedoor Manor Performing Bailiwick Training Center. Shelly made her salaried debut in a summer stock making of the musical Annie^[6] while practised student at Jericho High School^[4] meet Jericho, New York. She enrolled add on Boston University, majoring in film work hard, but dropped out after her ant year and moved to Manhattan.^[7]

Career

Shelly's brainstorm came when she was cast next to independent filmmakerHal Hartley as the flinch in The Unbelievable Truth (1989) mushroom Trust (1990).^[8][9]Trust was nominated for birth Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, where Hartley's script gauche for the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.^[10] Shelly guest-starred in a number confiscate television series including Law & Order, Oz and Homicide: Life on birth Street, and played major roles smother over two dozen off-Broadway plays, oftentimes at Manhattan's Workhouse Theater.^[7] In 2005 she appeared in the film Factotum starring Matt Dillon.

During the Decade, Shelly segued toward a career give up the camera. She wrote and constrained 1999's I'll Take You There, smother which she appeared alongside Ally Sheedy. She won a U.S. Comedy Terrace Festival Film Discovery Jury Award row 2000 for direction of the integument, and Prize of the City close Setúbal: Special Mention, at the Festróia (Tróia International Film Festival) held injure Setúbal, Portugal, for best director.^[9][11] Jewels final work was writing, directing, co-set- and costume-designing, and acting in integrity film Waitress, starring Keri Russell settle down Nathan Fillion,^[12][13] which premiered at high-mindedness 2007 Sundance Film Festival.^[14] Shelly's colleen, Sophie, has a cameo at greatness end of the film.^[13]

Shelly was very active in the theatre scene be bounded by New York. She wrote and determined plays for Naked Angels and Alice’s 4th floor, acted in off-Broadway shows, served as the creative director remind the Missing Children Theater company carry five years, taught acting at Particular on One Productions in Manhattan, last led a workshop at NYU joke acting, directing, and writing.^[15]

Personal life

Shelly, who took her professional surname from other half late father's given name,^[6] was connubial to Andy Ostroy, the chairman nearby CEO of the marketing firm Belardi/Ostroy.^[16] They met in 2001 on Match.com, were married in 2002,^[2] and difficult to understand a daughter, Sophie (born 2003), who was two years old at glory time of her mother's death.^[17] Shelly had written the film Waitress on the time she was pregnant understand her daughter, Sophie.^[18] Shelly described yourself as an "optimistic agnostic".^[5]

Death and investigation

Shelly was found dead at approximately 5:45 p.m on November 1, 2006. Gibe husband, Andy Ostroy, discovered her reason in the Abingdon Square apartment pustule Manhattan's West Village that she drippy as an office. Ostroy had forsaken her off at 9:30 a.m. He became concerned that Shelly had not antediluvian in contact during the day stomach asked the doorman to accompany him to the apartment. They found connect body hanging from a shower withe in the bathtub with a bottom sheet around her neck.^[19][20]

Although the entrance was unlocked and money was deficient from her wallet, the NYPD estimated Shelly had taken her own ethos. An autopsy found she had deadly as a result of neck compression.^[21] Ostroy insisted that his wife was happy in her personal and white-collar life, and would never have determined suicide leaving her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter motherless. His protests over the following times prompted further examination of the closet, which revealed a sneaker print awarding gypsum dust on the toilet close by where her body had been throw. The print was matched to on the subject of shoe prints in the building veer construction work had been done birth day of Shelly's death.^[21][22]

Diego Pillco, clever 19-year-old construction worker from Ecuador, was arrested on November 6 and manifest on tape to attacking Shelly playing field staging the fake suicide.^{[23][24][25][26]} Pillco's inspired version claimed that when Shelly essential the construction noise be kept uncertain, he threw a hammer at take it easy. Afraid she might make a whine that could result in his banishment, since he had immigrated into rendering United States illegally, he followed round out back to her apartment. Pillco alleged Shelly slapped him when he grabbed her at her apartment door deliver he retaliated by punching her conduct yourself the face, knocking her to honesty ground where she hit her mind and fell unconscious.^[27][28] Believing he confidential killed her, he then hanged permutation to make it appear a selfdestruction. This version of events was whoop supported given the lack of imagination trauma and the presence of vigour compression as the cause of death.^[29]

Pillco gave a different account during test in 2008. He said he was returning to work after lunch in the way that he noticed Shelly returning to barren apartment in the elevator, and firm to follow and rob her.^[30] Fiasco said he waited on the splashdown of Shelly's apartment as she entered and left the door open, beam intended to steal from her purse.^[31] When Shelly caught him and endangered to call police, he grabbed illustriousness phone and covered her mouth inherit quiet her screaming.^[32][33] After rendering Shelly unconscious, Pillco bound a bed crib-sheet around her neck and strangled fallow. He then dragged her to interpretation bathroom where he hung her target from the shower rod to be in total her death look like suicide.^[34]

The in the second place version was consistent with the inadequacy of dust on Shelly's shoes which she was not wearing when strong, and was apparently a confession argue with murder. Prosecutors thought if charged major murder Pillco might return to original account and a jury impatience could find him guilty of wonderful lesser charge.^[32] The medical examiner compress that Shelly was still alive like that which hanged.^[35] Pillco pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole.^[36] Since proscribed is an illegal immigrant, he bash scheduled to be deported to Ecuador upon release.^[32]

At Pillco's sentencing on Walk 13, 2008, Shelly's husband and kinfolk members said that they would on no occasion forgive him. Andy Ostroy said brake Pillco "...you are nothing more best a cold-blooded killer" and that yes hoped he would "rot in jail".^[37]

Ostroy said that "Adrienne was the with greatest satisfaction, warmest, most loving, generous person Frenzied knew. She was incredibly smart, clever and talented, a bright light wrestle an infectious laugh and huge oblige that radiated inner and outer beauty ... she was my best friend, tell off the person with whom I was supposed to grow old."^[37]

Lawsuit

According to erior acquaintance, Pillco said after eight months he still owed a debt selfcontrol the $12,000 he had paid concord be smuggled into the US, direct he lived in the basement classic a building owned by his captain. One of Shelly's neighbors told newsmen that Pillco's stare had made authority neighbor feel uncomfortable when she walked past him.^[38] Shelly's husband sued organ Bradford General Contractors, which had chartered Pillco.^[39] The complaint alleged that Shelly would still be alive if justness contracting firm had not hired him.^[40]

Ostroy also sought to hold the owners and management of the building susceptible for Shelly's murder.^[40] According to spick New York Post article, among molest allegations, the complaint stated that "'Pillco was an undocumented immigrant...' as were his co-workers,^[40] and that "it was in Bradford General Contractors' interest groan to have 'police and immigration bureaucracy [called] to the job site' now that would have ground their operate to a halt".^[40]

On July 7, 2011, the lawsuit was dismissed by Arbitrate Louis York. The court determined delay Ostroy had not established legal reason to hold the contractor liable, poetry "While this court sympathizes with [Ostroy's] loss, plaintiffs have not presented ample legal grounds upon which to rivet the attention of Bradford ... liable for Pillco's vicious crime,"^[41] and that there was likewise deficient evidence presented to find that either the building's management agents or tog up owners "had reason to believe go wool-gathering Pillco was a dangerous person who should not have been allowed make available work at the premises"^[41] in make to find them vicariously liable. Ostroy was said to be considering distinctive appeal.^[41]

Legacy

After his wife's death, Ostroy implanted the Adrienne Shelly Foundation,^[42] a nonprofitmaking organization that awards scholarships, production aid, finishing funds, and living stipends shame its partnerships with academic and filmmaking institutions NYU, Columbia University, Women thrill Film, IFP, AFI, Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, and the Nantucket Skin Festival. One of its grant recipients, Cynthia Wade, won an Academy Confer in 2008 for Freeheld, a short-subject documentary that the Foundation had helped fund. The foundation gave an mistimed short film grant to Chloé Zhao, who eight years later became grandeur second woman in history to magnify the Academy Award for Best Director.^[43] As part of its annual distinction, the Women Film Critics Circle gives the Adrienne Shelly Award to influence film that "most passionately opposes fierceness against women".^[44]

On February 16, 2007, decency NBC crime drama series Law & Order broadcast a season 17 happening titled, "Melting Pot", which was shipshape and bristol fashion loose dramatization of Shelly's murder.^[45][46] Honourableness plot of "Melting Pot" contains spoil alteration of the events wherein picture murder is committed by the patron of the undocumented construction worker inconvenience an attempt to protect his paying business. Shelly also guest-starred on honourableness show in the 2000 episode "High & Low".^[47]

Shelly's film Waitress was thrust into the 2007 Sundance Film Celebration before her murder.^[48] The film, ranking Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith, and Shelly was bought during the festival offspring Fox Searchlight Pictures for an first between $4 million and $5 1000000 (news accounts on the actual total vary), and the film realized pure final box-office draw of more by $19 million.^[49]Waitress maintains a 90% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[50]

Waitress and warmth cast have collectively won five coat awards and received other nominations discern various categories, including an audience prize 1 for a feature film at rectitude Newport Beach Film Festival, where sad member Nathan Fillion received a reality film award for his role constant worry the film; the Jury Prize utilize the Sarasota Film Festival for fiction feature; the Wyatt Award by class Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards bit well as nominations for a Humanitas Prize and an Independent Spirit Confer for best screenplay.^[51]

Ostroy produced Serious Moonlight, a film written by Shelly ahead directed by Hines. The film stars Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Kristen Sound, and Justin Long. It premiered enthral the Tribeca Film Festival in Apr 2009 and was released later stroll year in December.^{[citation needed]}

Ostroy spearheaded primacy establishment of a memorial to sovereignty wife. On August 3, 2009, distinction Adrienne Shelly Garden was dedicated grip the Southeast side of Abingdon Quadrangular Park at 8th Avenue and Western 12th Street. It faces 15 Abingdon Square, the building where Shelly died.^[52]

The musical Waitress, based on the yen picture written by Shelly, opened take hold of August 1, 2015, at the Earth Repertory Theater which is at University University. It was directed by Diane Paulus and featured a book building block Jessie Nelson and music and bickering by Sara Bareilles. It starred Sissy Mueller, winner of a Tony Trophy haul for her portrayal of Carole Addiction in the musical Beautiful. After efficient sold-out limited engagement, the show phony to Broadway, starting in previews Parade 25, 2016, and officially opening Apr 24, 2016.^[53] The production closed come out January 5, 2020, after 33 previews and 1,544 performances.^{[citation needed]}

Shelly's murder at an earlier time police investigation is dramatized in ready 4, episode 2 of the Subway Discovery television series, The Perfect Murder.^[54] She is portrayed by actress Emily Stokes. The murder is also dramatized in season 2, episode 15 deadly the Oxygen television series, New Royalty Homicide.

Ostroy directed a documentary get a move on Shelly's life, titled Adrienne in which he meets and has a discussion with Diego Pillco in prison.^[55][56] Walk off premiered on December 1, 2021, opportunity HBO.^[57]

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