Shelly Hack

Shelly Marie Hack (born July 6, 1947) is an American former actress and model.

Hack was born in Grenwich Connecticut. She graduated from Greenwich Academy and Smith College. She began her career as a teen fashion model and became the face of Revlon’s Charlie perfume in the mid 1970s, which gave her national exposure on television. Hack ranked among the top models of her day, widely known to the public and able to negotiate previously unheard-of deals with cosmetics companies of the time. In October 1981, Life magazine proclaimed her one of the million-dollar faces in the beauty industry.

Her feature film debut was in Woody Allen’s award winning film Annie Hall (1977), as “Street Stranger.” She is perhaps best known for her role as Tiffany Welles in the television series Charlie’s Angels for one season (1979-80). Following this, she went on to play a variety of minor roles, such as in Martin Scorsese’s film The King of Comedy (1982). She also had a role in the cult horror film The Stepfather. She had several guest appearances in film and television up until 1997, when she retired from acting.

In January 2008, Hack made an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The episode, “Classic Americana”, featured Hack as the Charlie perfume model in this famous 1976 television ad with Bobby Short at the piano. “It was a time when women were changing” Hack stated to Oprah Winfrey. “Women looked at [the ad] and said, ‘I want to be like that.’” Referring to the later Revlon commercials and Charlie’s Angels, Hack stated “I was lucky. There were two things I was in that were about making women feel a little more empowered”.

Hack is married to Harry Winer, with whom she has one daughter.