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What character did she play in the film The Shining?

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  • Wendy Torrance

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In Stanley Kubrick's psychological horror classic "The Shining," Shelley Duvall portrays Wendy Torrance, the doting wife of aspiring writer Jack Torrance and the mother of Danny, who possesses psychic abilities known as "the shining." Wendy finds herself isolated at the Overlook Hotel with her family, where Jack's descent into madness puts her survival skills and maternal instincts to the ultimate test.
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