Kelly McGillis
Kelly McGillis was born in Newport Beach, California, United States on July 9th, 1957 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 67, Kelly McGillis biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Kelly Ann McGillis (born July 9, 1957) is an American actress best known for her appearance in Witness (1985) with Harrison Ford; her role as Charlie in Top Gun (1986) with Tom Cruise; and her appearance as Kathryn Murphy in The Accused (1988) with Jodie Foster.
Early life
McGillis was born on July 9, 1957, in the southern California suburb of Newport Beach, the eldest of three daughters born to Virginia Joan (née Snell), a homemaker, and Donald Manson McGillis, a physician. Her paternal ancestry is Scots-Irish, and her maternal ancestry is German; she also has Welsh roots; she has Welsh roots; She attended Newport Harbor High School.
McGillis was born in Los Angeles and attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California. After dropping out of high school in 1975, she came to New York City to study acting at the Juilliard School, where she graduated in 1983, Group 12.
Personal life
In 1979, McGillis married fellow Juilliard student Boyd Black; the pair divorced in 1981. Kelsey and Sonora were born in 1989, and they have two children, Fred Tillman and Sonora. In 2002, the couple divorced.
McGillis was assaulted by two guys in her New York apartment in 1982. Leroy Johnson, a 15-year-old prisoner at the time, was sentenced to three years in jail, but the other assassination charges were dismissed due to a lack of corroborative evidence.
McGillis and her partner Fred Tillman's "The Centurion," a 110-foot schooner, was destroyed by fire in April 1996 at a marina in Dania, Florida. On a Dania Cutoff Canal, the fire started on a nearby boat and stoked the schooner. Tillman had retrieved the boat from the couple's house in Key West in the hopes of selling it at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show.
During an interview with SheWired, McGillis came out as a lesbian in 2009. Melanie Leis, a Philadelphia sales executive, and she entered into a civil union in 2010. She and McGillis first met in 2000 when she was a bartender at Kelly's Caribbean Bar Grill & Brewery in Key West, Florida, which McGillis owned with her then-husband Fred Tillman. The following year, the couple's union was dissolving.
McGillis, a drug rehabilitation center in Bridgeton, New Jersey, worked full-time with heroin addicts and alcoholics when she and Leis shared a house in Collingswood.
McGillis lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina. She has worked at Stage and Screen NYS3 in Asheville, North Carolina, since 2013.
After being assaulted by a woman who broke into her North Carolina home on June 17, 2016, McGillis was left scratched and bruised. The attack, as well as others she had experienced in the past, prompted her to apply for a concealed carry firearms permit to shield herself. Laurence Marie Dorn, a 38-year-old woman, was charged with second-degree burglary, misdemeanor larceny, misdemeanor stalking, assault, and battery, as well as interference with emergency communications. Dorn was found guilty of misdemeanor breaking and entering and was sentenced to probation.
Career
McGillis' breakthrough role in Witness (1985), which earned her Golden Globe and BAFTA award nominations after making her film debut in Reuben, Reuben, Reuben, Reuben, 1983, was that of an Amish mother in Witness (1985). In the 1986 fighter-pilot film Top Gun, Charlotte Blackwood (call sign "Charlie") was her next high-profile role.
McGillis appeared in Made in Heaven, directed by Alan Rudolph, which was produced by Lorimar Productions in 1987.
In 1988's The House on Carroll Street, McGillis appeared as Miss Venable (Jessica Tandy)'s caretaker, which also starred Jeff Daniels. She hears a tense conversation in the house next door that leads to accusations that she has stumbled on a plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the country.
She appeared in Cat Chaser with Peter Weller, a film she disliked and that barred her from pursueing an acting career after 1988's The Accused. McGillis appeared on hundreds of television and film roles in the 1990s before taking a break from acting for a few years.
In The Babe (1992), McGillis appeared as Claire Merritt Ruth, Babe Ruth's second wife. McGillis appeared in Winter People (1989) and North (1994), her second Amish role in television or film, as well as several made-for-TV films, from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.
McGillis co-starred with Val Kilmer (who plays Virgil, a blind man) in At First Sight in 1999 as his overprotective sister.
In The Monkey's Mask, an international lesbian cult film starring Susie Porter, she was the perpetrator in the abduction of a young woman. The film is based on Dorothy Porter's verse book.
McGillis' early television appearances included appearances on the daytime soap One Life to Live in 1984.
She appeared in the 1984 television film Sweet Revenge (also known as Bittersweet Revenge) with Alec Baldwin.
Private Sessions in 1985 and as a narrator in Santabear's First Christmas were among other television films during the 1980s. In 1995, she narrated PBS' Out of Ireland.
She appeared in William Congreve's Love for Love, directed by John Bletchley, while at Juilliard. During the 1980s in New York City, she appeared in a few off-broadway and Broadway theater productions.
McGillis was a featured actress at the prestigious Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, during the late-1980s and the mid-2000s. She appeared in "The Duchess of Malfi," John Webber's staged performance at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., in 2002.
Mrs. Robinson, a woman from New York, appeared in the stage play The Graduate in 2004. McGillis appeared in Lillian Hellman's Pasadena Playhouse stage production The Little Foxes in May 2009 co-starring Julia Duffy.
Don Juan (1982), The Sea Gull (1985), Peccadillo (1990), The Merchant of Venice (1989), The Martial Dream (1991), Mourning Becomes Electra (1999), Mourning Becomes Electra (1990), The Merchant of Venice (1989), Twelfth Night (1990), and The Winter's Tale (1999), Mourning Becomes Electra (1994), The Merchant of Venice (1989),
She appeared in a film by Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, which toured the United Kingdom in 2010.
She began working in television in 2006 and then appeared on Showtime's The L Word for its fifth season in 2007.
She appeared in Jim Mickle's 2010 vampire film Stake Land, starring Nick Damici, Connor Paolo, and Danielle Harris.
McGillis appeared in a breast cancer docu-drama called 1 a Minute, which was released in 2010.
In 2013, she appeared in Ti West's 2011 thriller The Innkeepers, We Are What We Are, and Tio Papi, as well as an episode of Sisters of Mercy.
On the Hallmark Channel, McGillis' fourth Amish themed film was An Uncommon Grace. As Rose Lewis, she appeared in Mother of All Secrets (filmed in Bermuda) in 2017.
In Annie Cook's biographical film, McGillis appears in the lead role.