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Shelley Lee Long (born August 23, 1949) is an American actress, singer, and comedian. Long portrayed
Diane Chambers Diane Chambers is a fictional character in the American television situation comedy show '' Cheers'', portrayed by Shelley Long and created by Glen and Les Charles. After her fiancé Sumner Sloan abandons her in the Cheers bar in the pilot ep ...
on the hit sitcom ''
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'' and received five
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nominations, winning in 1983 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She won two
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for the role. Long reprised her role as Diane Chambers in three episodes of the spin-off ''
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'', for which she received an additional guest star Emmy nomination. In 2009, she began playing a recurring role as DeDe Pritchett on the ABC comedy series ''
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''. Long has also starred in several films including '' Night Shift'' (1982), ''
Irreconcilable Differences ''Irreconcilable Differences'' is a 1984 American comedy-drama film starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, and Drew Barrymore. The film was a minor box-office success, making over $12 million. For their performances, both Long and Barrymore were no ...
'' (1984), ''
The Money Pit ''The Money Pit'' is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long as a couple who attempt to renovate a recently purchased house. The film is a remake of the 1948 Cary Grant comedy film '' Mr ...
'' (1986), '' Outrageous Fortune'' (1987), '' Hello Again'' (1987), ''
Troop Beverly Hills ''Troop Beverly Hills'' is a 1989 American comedy film. It is produced by the Weintraub Entertainment Group and directed by Jeff Kanew, starring Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson, Betty Thomas, Mary Gross, Stephanie Beacham and introducing Jenny Lewi ...
'' (1989), ''
The Brady Bunch Movie ''The Brady Bunch Movie'' is a 1995 American comedy film that parodies the 1969–1974 television series ''The Brady Bunch''. The film was directed by Betty Thomas, with a screenplay by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, and Bonnie and Terry Turner, an ...
'' (1995), ''
A Very Brady Sequel ''A Very Brady Sequel'' is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Arlene Sanford (in her feature film directorial debut), with a screenplay by Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, James Berg and Stan Zimmerman, and starring Shelley Long, Gary Cole an ...
'' (1996), and '' Dr. T & the Women'' (2000).


Early life

Shelley Long was born on August 23, 1949, in Indian Village,
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. She is the daughter and only child of Ivadine (née Williams), a school teacher, and Leland Long who worked in the rubber industry before becoming a teacher. She grew up
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. She was active on her high school speech team, competing in the Indiana High School Forensic Association. In 1967, she won the
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's National Championship in Original Oratory. After graduating from
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in Fort Wayne, she studied drama at
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but left before graduating to pursue a career in acting and modeling. Her first job was at the university as a meal plan checker. She got her initial break as an actress when she began doing local commercials for Homemakers furniture store in the
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area.


Career


Early roles

In Chicago Long joined
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comedy troupe. In 1975, she began writing, producing, and co-hosting the television program ''Sorting It Out'' on
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and went on to win three
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for her work on the show. She also appeared in the 1970s in VO5 shampoo print advertisements and in commercials for
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soap as well as more Homemakers furniture commercials. In 1978 she appeared in a vignette on ''
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''. In 1979, Long appeared in the television movie ''
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'' as a psychiatric inmate. In the same year she guest starred on ''
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'' and ''
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'' In 1980 she appeared in her first feature film role in '' A Small Circle of Friends''. The film about social unrest at
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during the 1960s enjoyed a level of critical success. In 1981, she played the role of Tala in ''
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''. She played Nurse Mendenhall in a 1979 episode of ''
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''. In 1982, she starred as Belinda, the good-natured prostitute neighbor of the character portrayed by
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in
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's comedy '' Night Shift'' (also co-starring
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), and starred with
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in ''
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'' (1983). She was offered the role of Mary, the mother in
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's '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'', but turned it down because she had already signed on to appear in ''Night Shift''.


''Cheers''

Although she had already been in feature films, Long became famous for her role in the long-running television sitcom ''
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'' as the character
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, who has a tempestuous on-and-off relationship with
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. The show was slow to capture an audience but eventually became one of the more popular on the air. Amid some controversy, Long left ''Cheers'' after season five in 1987. In the ''Cheers'' biography documentary, co-star
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admitted there was tension between them but "never at a personal level and always at a work level" due to their different modes of working. He also stated that Long was much more similar to her TV character than she might have liked to admit, but also said that her performances often "carried the show." Long said in later interviews that it did not occur to her, when deciding to leave, that she was going to "sabotage a show" and she felt confident that the rest of the cast could continue without her. In a 2003 interview with ''
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'', Long said she left for a variety of reasons, the most important of which was her desire to spend more time with her toddler daughter. In a 2007 interview on Australian television, Long said Danson was "a delight to work with" and talked of her love for co-star
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("Coach"), who was "one of my closest friends on set". She said she left the show because she "didn't want to keep doing the same episode over and over again and the same story. I didn't want it to become old and stale." She went on to say that "working at ''Cheers'' was a dream come true...it was one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. So, yes, I missed it, but I never regretted that decision."


Film

While appearing on ''Cheers'' Long continued to star in motion pictures. In 1984, she was nominated for a Best Leading Actress
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for her performance in ''
Irreconcilable Differences ''Irreconcilable Differences'' is a 1984 American comedy-drama film starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, and Drew Barrymore. The film was a minor box-office success, making over $12 million. For their performances, both Long and Barrymore were no ...
''. She starred in a series of comedies, such as ''
The Money Pit ''The Money Pit'' is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long as a couple who attempt to renovate a recently purchased house. The film is a remake of the 1948 Cary Grant comedy film '' Mr ...
'', '' Outrageous Fortune'', and '' Hello Again''. She was also offered lead roles in ''
Working Girl ''Working Girl'' is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, written by Kevin Wade, and starring Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, and Melanie Griffith. Its plot follows an ambitious secretary from Staten Island who t ...
'', ''
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'', and ''
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'' but did not accept those roles. On August 12, 1986, Long signed a production agreement with The Walt Disney Studios through Itsbinso Long Inc. to produce three films for the
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and Touchstone Films labels.


Post-''Cheers'' projects

Long's first post-''Cheers'' project was ''
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'', a comedy in which she plays a housewife who takes leadership of a 'Wilderness Girl' troop to bond with her daughter and to distract herself from divorce proceedings. In 1990, Long returned to television for the fact-based miniseries '' Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase''. She received critical praise for the role, which required her to portray nearly 20 personalities. This introduced her to more dramatic roles in TV films, after which she starred in several more throughout the 1990s. Major feature film roles followed such as the romantic comedy '' Don't Tell Her It's Me'' with
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and
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and '' Frozen Assets'', a comedy about a sperm bank, which reunited her with ''Hello Again'' co-star
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. In 1992, she starred in ''Fatal Memories: The Eileen Franklin Story'', a veridical television drama about a woman who remembers the childhood trauma of being raped by her father and his cronies, and witnessing him murder her childhood friend to prevent the child from "telling on him." The still-controversial " recovered memories" basis for the prosecution resulted in the conviction and sentencing of life imprisonment of George Franklin, a conviction that was later overturned. Long starred in the 1992 film ''A Message from Holly'' with
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. Long plays a workaholic who finds out that her best friend has cancer and only six months to live, then stays with her in her last months. In 1993, the actress returned to ''Cheers'' for its
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, and picked up another
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nomination for her return as Diane. She also starred in the sitcom ''
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'' with
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and
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, a show that lasted two seasons. She later resurfaced as Diane in several episodes of the
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spinoff series ''
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'', for which she was nominated for another
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.


Later work

Long appeared as Carol Brady in the 1995 hit film ''
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'' which is a
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take of the popular television show. In 1996, she reprised her role in ''
A Very Brady Sequel ''A Very Brady Sequel'' is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Arlene Sanford (in her feature film directorial debut), with a screenplay by Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, James Berg and Stan Zimmerman, and starring Shelley Long, Gary Cole an ...
'' which had modest success, and a 2002 Made for TV Movie sequel—''
The Brady Bunch in the White House ''The Brady Bunch in the White House'' is a 2002 American comedy television film and the second sequel to ''The Brady Bunch Movie'' (1995), following ''A Very Brady Sequel'' (1996). It was directed by Neal Israel and written by Lloyd J. Schwartz an ...
''. Some ventures followed including the TV remake of ''
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'' and the family sitcom ''
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'', which only lasted for a few episodes. She played the Wicked Witch of the Beanstalk in a 1998 episode of ''
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''. In 1999, she starred in another TV movie ''Vanished Without a Trace'', about a woman who refuses to accept the kidnapping of her 13-year-old daughter and relentlessly pursues the villain's capture (not to be confused with the 1993 film of the same name about the 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping.) In 2000, she appeared as one of the women in the
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film '' Dr. T & the Women'', directed by
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. She later returned for a third go-around playing Carol Brady in the TV movie ''
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''. Long guest-starred in several TV shows such as ''
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'', '' Yes Dear'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. She had a recurring role on the popular ABC sitcom ''
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'' as DeDe Pritchett, the ex-wife of
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. She starred in television movies, including ''Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door'' and '' Holiday Engagement''. In 2012, she made a guest appearance on '' Switched at Birth''. In 2016, Long produced and acted in the feature film ''Different Flowers''.


Personal life

Long's first marriage, to Ken Solomon, ended in divorce in the 1970s after only a few years. In 1979 she met her second husband, Bruce Tyson, a securities broker. They married in 1981 and had a daughter, Juliana. Long and Tyson separated in 2003 and divorced in 2004.


Filmography


Film


Television


Awards and nominations


Emmy Awards (Primetime)


Golden Globe Awards


References


External links

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