Meg Tilly

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Meg Tilly (born Margaret Elizabeth Chan, 1960) is a Canadian-American actress and novelist. She received a Golden Globe Award for her role in 1985's Agnes of God and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Psycho II (1983), The Big Chill (1983), Masquerade (1988), and Valmont (1989).

She received the 2013 Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the television series Bomb Girls (2012–13). Tilly has also written six books, including Porcupine (2005), which was a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize.

She is Jennifer Tilly's younger sister.

Early life

Tilly was born in Long Beach, California, to Patricia Ann (née Tilly), a Canadian teacher and businessman Harry Chan. Her father was Chinese-American, but her mother was of Irish and Finnish descent. She is Jennifer Tilly's younger sister.

Tilly was raised by her mother and stepfather, John Ward, on British Columbia's rural Texada Island, Canada, following her parents' divorce when she was three. Ward was later identified as a violent pedophile, according to her. Tilly started taking dance lessons, in part to avoid her stepfather's capture, and after a few years, she became a natural ballerina.

Tilly graduated from Esquimalt High School in Esquimalt, British Columbia, as well as Chief Sealth International High School in Seattle, Washington, where she is among the school's alumni. Tilly left home and moved to the United States in order to pursue a career as a professional dancer after graduating from high school. She stayed on full scholarship with Madame Darvash and Melissa Hayden in New York City. She appeared at the Connecticut Ballet Company. Despite the fact that Tilly's dance career had been halted in 1979, when a dance partner dropped her, resulting in a serious back injury, she made her film debut (somewhat ironically) as a dancer in Alan Parker's 1980 musical drama Fame.

Personal life

Tilly married Tim Zinnemann, an American film producer and uncle of film director Fred Zinnemann, in 1983. They met on the set of her first film, Tex. Emily (born 1984) and David (born 1986). In 1989, the marriage ended in divorce.

Tilly began a five-year relationship with British actor Colin Firth, whom she met during Valmont's filming. About an hour outside Vancouver near the town of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, they went from Los Angeles to a log house on five acres of mountainside property about an hour away. William Joseph Joseph, their son, was born in 1990.

Tilly married John Calley, an American film studio executive and producer who was 30 years old, in 1995. They then migrated to Los Angeles, where Calley served as president and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 2002, the couple's marriage came to an end.

Tilly married her current husband, author Don Calame, who writes fiction for adolescents in 2002. They met in Big Sur, California, at a writing workshop. She has lived in the Gulf Islands, British Columbia, since 1999.

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Career

Tilly went to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actress and studied acting under Petra Feury, who was forced to stop dancing due to issues stemming from her back injury. Elisha Cook Jr. appeared in her first role in the 1982 coming-of-age adventure film Tex with Matt Dillon, making her television debut in the 1982 half-hour drama The Trouble with Grandpa.

She appeared in Psycho II, Anthony Perkins' award-winning ensemble film The Big Chill, with Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, Tom Berenger, Jeff Goldblum, JoBeth Williams, and Mary Kay Place in 1983, after she appeared as the lead in the supernatural horror film One Dark Night. Tilly's appearance in The Big Chill, which was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, supported her career greatly. In 1984, she appeared in the film Impulse.

Tilly was the first choice for the role of Constanze Mozart in Milo Forman's film Amadeus, after receiving glowing reviews of her rehearsal work by both her would-be costar Tom Hulce and producer Forman. However, she had to cancel the project due to a leg injury while playing soccer. Elizabeth Berridge took over the role later.

Tilly earned the coveted title role in Norman Jewison's Agnes of God, starring Jane Fonda and Anne Bancroft in 1985. Tilly "delivered a marvelous portrayal of a terrified young woman facing the ultimate crisis of faith" in the role of a novitiate nun who confesses her involvement in a virgin birth. Tilly's lauded performance earned her an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award.

Tilly appeared in Valmont (1989), The Two Jakes (1990) with Jack Nicholson and Leaving Normal (1992) with Christine Lahti, as well as the 1993 horror film Body Snatchers. She stopped acting for the next 15 years after this.

Tilly returned to acting in 2010, portraying the Blessed Mother, a Pope-like figure in the Caprica episode "Unvanquished." Martha is a fan of Virginia Woolf, a black playwright from Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which was presented by the Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre in Victoria, B.C., in 2011.

Global in Canada released the six-part Bomb Girls about women who work in a munitions factory during World War II. Lorna, the emotionally closed floor matron who blossoms as a king and an appealing woman, is played by Tilly. She was named Best Actress, Drama Canadian Screen Award in 2013 for her role in the film.

Tilly is the author of several published books. Tilly's first book Singing Songs was released by Dutton in 1994 to generally positive feedback. Publishers Weekly's Donna Rifkind called the book "an excellent first book," and the New York Times Book Review praised Tilly for Anna's "unique coherence and clarity." The book is about a young girl and her sisters who are molested by their stepfather in the Northwest.

The Syren Book Company's second book Gemma was published in 2006. In 2010, St. Martin's Press picked up the paper, which was chosen by the editor in 2010. The book is about a twelve-year-old girl who is kidnapped and taken on a cross-country journey in which she is physically and sexually assaulted by her captor.

Tundra Books published Porcupine, her third book. The book is about a twelve-year-old girl named Jacqueline "Jack" Cooper, whose life is shattered by her father's death by friendly fire in Afghanistan. Porcupine was a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Award, shortlisted for The Canadian Libraries Association Best Children's Book 2008, Foreword Magazine Book of the Year, and a top contender for the Ontario Library Best Bets 2008.

Orca Book Publishers published her fourth book First Time in 2008. The book is about a sixteen-year-old girl who is molested and physically assaulted by her mother's boyfriend, and she must cope with the violence alone without the help of her mother or best friend. This was the first time a 2009 Golden Eagle Award Nominee, a 2009 YALSA Quick Picks, and 2010 CCBC Best Books were awarded for the first time.

Puffin Books published Tilly's fifth book A Taste of Heaven in 2013. The book, which is a departure from Tilly's previous fiction, is about two young girls who become friends who live through the "comical, often sad, melodramatic, and tribulations of tweenhood." "Tilly paints an insightful, memorable portrait of friendships and family's constant bonds, delving into age-old questions of honesty, trust, and loyalty, according to one reviewer. A Taste of Heaven was selected for the 2014 Libris Young Reader Book of the Year, a 2014 Diamond Willow Award, and the 2014/2015 Chocolate Lilly Award.

Puffin Books (Canada) published Behind the Scenes, her sixth book.

After being dumped by her fiancé, Tilly released the first three books in her Solace Island trilogy, a series of romantic thrillers about a young woman, Maggie Harris, and a mysterious handsome man. Cliff's Edge and Hidden Cove were quickly followed by two sequels.

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