She played Nurse Mendenhall in a 1979 episode of M*A*S*H. In 1981, she played the role of Tala in Caveman. The film about social unrest at Harvard University during the 1960s enjoyed a level of critical success. In 1980 she appeared in her first feature film role in A Small Circle of Friends.
That same year she guest starred on Family and Trapper John, M.D.
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In 1979, Long appeared in the television movie The Cracker Factory as a psychiatric inmate. In 1978 she appeared in a vignette on The Love Boat. Long also appeared in the 1970s in VO5 shampoo print advertisements and in commercials for Homemakers Furniture and Camay soap. In 1975, she began writing, producing, and co-hosting the television program Sorting It Out on WMAQ-TV, and went on to win three Regional Emmys for her work on the show. In Chicago, she joined The Second City comedy troupe. Her first break as an actress occurred when she began doing local commercials for Homemakers furniture store in the Chicago area. Īfter graduating from South Side High School in Fort Wayne, she studied drama at Northwestern University, but left before graduating to pursue a career in acting and modeling.
In 1967, she won the National Forensic League's National Championship in Original Oratory. She was active on her high school speech team, competing in the Indiana High School Forensic Association. She is the daughter of Ivadine, a school teacher, and Leland Long, who worked in the rubber industry before becoming a teacher. Shelley Long was born on August 23, 1949, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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