Born and raised in Texas, Duvall got her start when she was discovered by director Robert Altman In the seventies. She appeared in films like 1971 McCabe and Mrs. Miller, 1974 Thieves like usand 1975 Nashvillebut her most famous role came then Stanley Kubrick cast her as Jack Torrance’s tormented wife.
She was infamously terrorized both off-screen and on-screen, with Kubrick deliberately isolating and antagonizing her during the making of The shining and forcing her to perform the baseball bat sequence 127 times – a Guinness World Record for most takes of a scene with dialogue.
Kubrick made her “cry twelve hours a day for weeks,” she revealed in 1981. interview with people. “I will never give that much again. If you want to suffer pain and call it art, go ahead, but not with me.
