What is the name of the character played by Shelley Duvall in The Shining?

Shelley Duvall played Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

Wendy is the wife of Jack Torrance and the mother of Danny Torrance. She travels with her family to the isolated Overlook Hotel, where Jack works as the winter caretaker. As the hotel’s supernatural influence and Jack’s violence intensify, Wendy becomes the story’s principal survivor and protector.

The film adapts Stephen King’s 1977 novel, although Kubrick and co-writer Diane Johnson changed several elements, including aspects of Wendy’s characterization and the ending. Duvall’s performance is marked by fear, exhaustion, and determination, especially during the film’s increasingly claustrophobic final act.

Viewers sometimes confuse Wendy with Danny because both are endangered by the hotel, or with Jack because the family surname is Torrance. Wendy is the mother, Jack is the father, and Danny is their young son, who possesses the psychic ability called “the shining.”