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| Birth Name(s) : Shelley Lee Long |
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Bruce Tyson (1981-2004) |
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Full Shelley Long Biography
Shelley Lee Long (born August 23, 1949) is an Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award-winning American film, stage and television dramatic and comedic actress.
Long was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana to Evandine, a school teacher, and Leland Long, who worked in the rubber industry before becoming a teacher. She was active on her high school speech team, and won the National Championship in Original Oratory. She delivered a speech on the need for sex education in high school. After graduating from South Side High School in Fort Wayne, she studied drama at Northwestern University, but left before graduating to pursue a career in acting and modelling.
In 1979, while pursuing her acting career, Long met securities broker Bruce Tyson on a blind date, whom she married in October 1981. This was her second marriage.She gave birth to her only child, her daughter Juliana on March 27, 1985. In 2004, after 23 years of marriage, Bruce Tyson filed for divorce.
Although she had starred in successful feature films, Shelly Long became a household name and famous as the character Diane Chambers in the long running and successful television show Cheers. The show was slow to capture an audience but eventually became one of the most popular shows on television and she became a most sought after actress. In 1984, Long was nominated for a Best Leading Actress Golden Globe for her performance in Irreconcilable Differences. She then appeared in a series of comedies, such as The Money Pit, starring Tom Hanks, 1986, Outrageous Fortune with Bette Midler and Peter Coyote, 1987 and Hello Again with Corbin Bernsen, 1987.Long in The Brady Bunch Movie
Amidst much public controversy and public disappointment but what appeared to be a very personal choice, she left Cheers after Season 5 in 1987. Producers begged her to stay, offering her $400,000, but Long refused. Reports said that she left because did not have good relations with her costars (who allegedly found her overbearing), and that she wanted to leave television roles for a film career. In a 2003 interview on The Graham Norton Show, Long said that she left for a variety of reasons, the most important of which was her desire to spend more time with her newborn daughter. Her first post-Cheers project was Troop Beverly Hills, where she played a housewife who starts a "Wilderness Girl" troop as a distraction from her divorce proceedings.Long in Troop Beverly Hills
Long took several roles in films, such as, Don't Tell Her It's Me and Frozen Assets, that turned out to be commercially unsuccessful. In 1993, she returned to Cheers for its series finale and starred in the short lived sitcom Good Advice with Treat Williams and Teri Garr, but the show was cancelled after two seasons. In 1995, she re-appeared as Diane Chambers in an episode of Frasier
Long achieved success when she appeared as Carol Brady in the hit film The Brady Bunch Movie, a campy take on the television show The Brady Bunch. In 1996, she reprised her role as Carol Brady in A Very Brady Sequel, which had more modest success.
A series of ventures followed such as the made for TV remake of Freaky Friday, and the family sitcom Kelly Kelly, which, only lasted for a few episodes on The WB Television Network.
She has also had guest starring roles in many Television shows. In 1997, she played the Wicked Witch of the Beanstalk in the Second Season Sabrina, the Teenage Witch episode Sabrina and the Beanstalk. |
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