Trivia

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 Irreconcilable Differences (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 Irreconcilable Differences (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.

Directed by four Academy Award winners: Ron Howard, Curtis Hanson, Arthur Hiller and Robert Altman.

Returned to work four months after giving birth to her daughter, Juliana Long Tyson, to begin filming the fourth season of Cheers (1982).

Originally cast to play the lead character, Terry Dolittle, in Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986). It would go to future Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg.

Attended Northwestern University (Evanston, IL).

Shelley Long, who played Carol Brady in the '90s Brady Bunch movies, is 15 years younger than Florence Henderson. Both were born and raised in Indiana: Shelley grew up in Fort Wayne and Florence in Dale, IN.

Originally cast to play the lead character, Celeste, in My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988). It would go to future Academy Award winner Kim Basinger.

Daughter, Juliana Long Tyson (born March 27, 1985), with ex-husband Bruce Tyson.

She was awarded the 1977 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Musical for "Wellsapoppin", at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Lives in Pacific Palisades, California with her husband, Bruce Tyson. (December 2003)

She has a granddaughter, Josephine Belle Kissick, nicknamed Jo, born in 2019.

Born on August 23, 1949, the exact same day as Rick Springfield. They are Leos.

Although her birthday is on August 23rd, her star sign and Moon placement are in Leo.