Adrienne Shelly and her daughter Sophie Ostroy (Andy Ostroy/HBO) Facebook The tragic 2006 murder of Adrienne Shelly cut short the promising career of a talented actress, writer and director.

Those are the gruesome details of Shelly’s death, and they’re not shied away from in Adrienne, a new documentary premiering on HBO on Dec. 1 following its debut at the DOC NYC festival on Nov. 14.

Adrienne Shelly with her daughter, Sophie, at the beach. Andy Ostroy/HBO "The actual fear of how your life is going to change, it's not spoken about," Shelly says in the clip.

Adrienne is partially a 100-minute affirmation of Shelly’s talents, but it’s just as much Ostroy’s attempt to come to terms with her death and, more specifically, the violent nature of that ...

Adrienne Shelly was a celebrated actor who starred in a pair of major independent films — Hal Hartley's "The Unbelievable Truth" (1989) and "Trust" (1990) — then went on to launch side careers ...

“Adrienne” HBO It’s wonderful how much footage of Shelly is included, truly making her feel like a living figure within the narrative (and only making her loss feel even more poignant).

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Notably, Adrienne took her father’s name, Shelly, as her professional surname, in tribute. He died of a heart attack when she was 12, which had a profound effect on her.

Adrienne Shelly's life ended fifteen years ago on Nov. 1, 2006, when she was murdered in her West Village office. But her story continues in Adrienne, a moving documentary portrait of the late ...

American star Adrienne Shelly was strangled to death by a construction worker in New York in 2006. Now Adrienne's husband Andy Ostry is releasing a documentary about her life.

On Nov. 1, 2006, when Shelly, 40, was murdered by Diego Pillco, a 19-year-old construction worker from Ecuador, who killed her in the Manhattan apartment where she liked to work, staging it to ...

The late Adrienne Shelly, writer-director of the 2007 Fox Searchlight hit "Waitress," left behind another screenplay before she died that her widower will develop and produce.