Shelley as Jackie Shea in Jack and Mike, 1986
Shelley's big break in Hollywood came via Charlie's Angels. It opened doors for her and brought her to international attention. She became a superstar but she wanted to be known as an actress, just like her idol fellow Connecticut-bred actress Katherine Hepburn. After Angels, she immersed herself into stage acting via the plays Vanities, Close Ties and Born Yesterday - all for which she received glowing reviews. Having been a successful Supermodel, she could afford to be picky with the roles she accepted - on both the small and big screen. She appeared in the Martin Scorsese film The King of Comedy with Robert de Niro and Jerry Lewis, in the TV movie Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer with George Segal and the TV movie Single Bars, Single Women with Paul Michael Glaser, Christine Lahti and Tony Danza. She also did had a short-lived TV series Cutter to Houston with Alec Baldwin. In 1986, she was the lead in another TV series Jack and Mike, playing Jackie Shea.
a writeup about Shelley from 1987
