Biographie

Wore a wig on the set of Cheers (1982) because she didn't want the hot set lights to damage her hair.

Shelley's part in Divorce à Hollywood (1984) was loosely inspired by Polly Platt, the Academy-Award nominated production designer. The movie dealt with a director (played by Ryan O'Neal) leaving his wife (played by Shelley) for a starlet (played by Sharon Stone). In real life, director Peter Bogdanovich divorced Platt to be with starlet Cybill Shepherd. When Platt was asked about Divorce à Hollywood (1984), her answer was: "They got more right than wrong".

Was eight months pregnant with her daughter, Juliana Long Tyson, when she completed filming the third season of Cheers (1982).

Originally cast to play the lead character, Tess McGill, in Working Girl (1988). It would go to Melanie Griffith, who received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for the film.

Shortly before starting work on Cheers (1982), she made an unsold sitcom pilot called "Ghost of a Chance", in which she was a newlywed haunted by the ghost of her first husband.

I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game.

If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.

Did you know that, if you visualize, you can actually hug on the phone?

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.