Adrienne Shelly Dead
Initially Thought To Be Suicide,
Construction Worker Confesses
To Killing After She Complained
Of Noise He Was Making

Shelly, Indie Star, Director and Writer, Was Married With a Three-Year Old Daughter
BeansTalk were big fans of the actress. It's such a horrible, sad story.

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Adrienne Shelly (June 16, 1966 or June 30, 1966– November 1, 2006), sometimes credited as Adrienne Shelley and by her birth name, Adrienne Levine, was an American actress, director and screenwriter.

Of Russian Jewish extraction, Adrienne Shelly was born in Queens, New York and raised on Long Island. She began performing "when I was about 10"[4] at a performing arts camp. She made her professional debut in a summer stock production of the musical Annie[3] while a student Jericho High School in Jericho, New York. She went on to Boston University, majoring in film production, but dropped out after her junior year and moved to Manhattan. Shelly's career breakthrough came in her starring roles in independent filmmaker Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth (1989) and Trust (1990), the latter of which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, where Hartley's script tied for the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.

She appeared in a number of films during the 1990s, and as she segued toward a behind-the-camera career she wrote and directed others, including 1999's I'll Take You There, in which she appeared along with Ally Sheedy. She she won a U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Film Discovery Jury Award in 2000 for direction of the film, which itself won the Prize of the City of Setúbal: Special Mention, at the Festróia (Tróia International Film Festival) held in Setúbal, Portugal.

She also guest-starred in a number of television series including Law & Order, Oz and Homicide: Life on the Street. She played major roles in over two dozen Off Broadway plays, often at Manhattan's Workhouse Theater.[1] In 2005 she co-starred in the film Factotum with Matt Dillon. Her last known work was writing and directing the film Waitress, starring Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion, [10] which she had submitted to the Sundance Film Festival for consideration.

Shelly, who took her professional surname after that of her late father, was married to Andy Ostroy, the chairman and CEO of the marketing firm Belardi/Ostroy ALC. They had a daughter, Sophie, who was three years old at the time of her death.

At about 5:45 p.m on Nov. 1, 2006, Shelly's husband found her hanging by a bedsheet from a shower rod in the bathtub of an Abingdon Square apartment in the West Village section of Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Shelley, who lived in Tribeca, used the apartment as an office and sublet it as a domicile to a friend. Ostrow had dropped her off at between 10 and 10:30 a.m. that day, and as the building's doorman told journalists, "He hadn't heard from her and he said it was odd not to hear from her, so he was nervous. And he asked me to go up to the apartment with him, so we went to the front door, and it was unlocked”

An autopsy was performed the following day. Although an apparent suicide, no note was found and the New York City Police Department were suspicious of shoe prints in the bathtub that did not match Shelly's shoes. Shelly's husband also indicated that there was money missing from Shelly's wallet.

Press reports on Nov. 6 said police had arrested a construction worker who had allegedly confessed to killing her after she complained about the noise he was making in the building.