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Kelly McGillis
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McGillis at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
Born (1957-07-09) July 9, 1957 (age 67)
Newport Beach, California, U.S.
Education Allan Hancock College
Juilliard School (BFA)
OccupationActress
Years active1976–present
Notable work Filmography
Spouses
Boyd Black
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(m. 1979;div. 1981)​
Fred Tillman
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(m. 1989;div. 2002)​
PartnerMelanie Leis (2010–2011)
Children2

Kelly Ann McGillis [1] (born July 9, 1957) [2] [3] is an American actress. She is known for her film roles such as Rachel Lapp in Witness (1985), for which she received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations; Charlie in Top Gun (1986); Made in Heaven (1987); The House on Carroll Street (1988); and as Katheryn Murphy in The Accused (1988). [4] In her later career, she has starred in horror films such as Stake Land (2010), The Innkeepers (2011), and We Are What We Are (2013).

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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. [5] Her direct paternal descent is Scots-Irish, including German and Welsh ancestry. [6] She attended Newport Harbor High School. [7]

McGillis attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California. [8] After dropping out of high school in 1975, she obtained her GED and then moved to New York City to study acting at the Juilliard School, [9] where she graduated in 1983, Group 12. [8] [10]

Career

Film

After making her film debut in Reuben, Reuben [11] in 1983, McGillis's breakout role was that of an Amish mother in Witness (1985) for which she received Golden Globe and BAFTA award nominations. Her next high-profile role was that of flight instructor Charlotte Blackwood (call sign "Charlie") in the 1986 fighter-pilot film Top Gun starring Tom Cruise. [12]

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McGillis on the set of Witness in 1984

In 1987, McGillis acted in the romance film Made in Heaven, directed by Alan Rudolph, which was produced by Lorimar Productions. [13]

McGillis played the part of caretaker for Miss Venable (Jessica Tandy) in 1988's The House on Carroll Street , which also starred Jeff Daniels. She overhears a suspicious conversation in the house next door and suspects that she's stumbled on a conspiracy to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the United States.

After 1988's The Accused , she appeared in Cat Chaser with Peter Weller, a film she despised and which discouraged her from pursuing an acting career. [14] [15] McGillis appeared in dozens of television and film roles throughout the 1990s before taking a break from acting for a few years.

McGillis played the part of Babe Ruth's second wife, Claire Merritt Ruth, in The Babe (1992). From the late-1980s to the mid-1990s, McGillis appeared in  Winter People (1989), and North (1994), her second Amish part in television or film, as well as several made-for-TV films.

In 1999, McGillis co-starred with Val Kilmer (who plays Virgil, a blind man), for a second time as his over protective sister in At First Sight . [16]

She played the suspect in the disappearance of a young woman in The Monkey's Mask , an international lesbian cult film from 2000 starring Susie Porter. The film is based on the verse novel of the same name by Australian poet Dorothy Porter. [17]

Television

McGillis's early television roles included a part on the daytime soap One Life to Live in 1984.

She starred in the 1984 television movie Sweet Revenge (also known as Bittersweet Revenge) with Alec Baldwin. [18]

Other television films during the 1980s included Private Sessions in 1985, and as a narrator in Santabear's First Christmas. She also narrated the documentary Out of Ireland for PBS in 1995.

Stage

While at Juilliard she performed in William Congreve's Love for Love , directed by John Bletchley.[ citation needed ] She appeared in a couple of off-broadway and Broadway theater productions during the 1980s in New York City.

During the late-1980s [19] and through the mid-2000s, McGillis was a featured actress at the prestigious Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC. [20] In 2002, she appeared in production of John Webber's play "The Duchess of Malfi" at the Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC.

In 2004, she appeared in the stage play The Graduate as Mrs. Robinson, touring the United States. [21] McGillis starred in a Pasadena Playhouse stage production of The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman in May 2009, co-starring with Julia Duffy. [22]

Her stage work includes: Don Juan (1982), The Sea Gull (1985), Peccadillo (1985), The Merchant of Venice (1988), Twelfth Night (1989), Mary Stuart (1990), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1990), Hedda Gabler (1994), Mourning Becomes Electra (1997), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999), Measure for Measure (1999) and The Graduate (2004), together with additional roles in Love for Love, Six Characters in Search of an Author , Three Sisters and The Winter's Tale .

She also appeared in a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally, which toured the United Kingdom in 2010. [23]

Return to film and TV

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McGillis at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival

She began working in television again in 2006, then in 2007 joined the cast of Showtime's The L Word for its fifth season. [24]

She had a role in the 2010 vampire film Stake Land , [25] directed by Jim Mickle, [26] starring alongside Nick Damici, Connor Paolo and Danielle Harris. [27]

McGillis was featured in a breast cancer docu-drama titled 1 a Minute , released in 2010. [28]

She starred in Ti West's 2011 thriller The Innkeepers [29] , We Are What We Are and Tio Papi in 2013, Grand Street, Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio (which was McGillis's third Amish-themed film), Z Nation , and an episode of Sisters of Mercy in 2014, and Blue in 2015.

An Uncommon Grace on Hallmark Channel was McGillis's fourth Amish themed film [30] and she had the lead role in Mother of All Secrets in 2017 as Rose Lewis. [31] [32] [33]

Personal life

McGillis married fellow Juilliard student Boyd Black in 1979; the couple divorced in 1981. [34] In the mid-1980s, she dated actors Warren Beatty and Jodie Foster. [35] [36] She married Fred Tillman in 1989, and they have two daughters. [37] The couple divorced in 2002.

The Centurion, a 110-foot schooner valued at $1.5 million owned by McGillis and her then-husband, Fred Tillman, was destroyed by fire in April 1996 at a marina in Dania, Florida. The fire started on an adjacent boat at the Port LauDania marina on a Dania Cutoff Canal and spread to the schooner. Tillman had brought the boat from the couple's home in Key West in hopes of selling it at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show. [38]

McGillis came out as a lesbian in 2009 during an interview with SheWired . [39] [40] In 2010, she entered into a civil union with Melanie Leis, a Philadelphia sales executive. They had met in 2000 when Leis was a bartender at the Caribbean Bar Grill & Brewery [41] in Key West, Florida, [42] which McGillis owned with her then-husband. [43]

McGillis worked full-time with drug addicts and alcoholics at Seabrook House Drug Alcohol Rehab Center, a rehabilitation center in Bridgeton, New Jersey, when she and Leis shared a home in Collingswood. [44]

McGillis currently lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina. As of 2013, she has taught acting at the New York Studio for Stage and Screen (NYS3) in Asheville, North Carolina. [45]

2016 home invasion

McGillis was left scratched and bruised after she was assaulted by a woman who broke into her home on June 17, 2016. [46] She said the attack, as well as others which she has been a victim of in the past, led her to apply for a concealed carry permit to protect herself. Following the incident, a 38-year-old woman, Laurence Marie Dorn, was charged with second-degree burglary, misdemeanor larceny, misdemeanor stalking, assault and battery, and interfering with emergency communication. [46] Later, Dorn was convicted of misdemeanor breaking and entering and sentenced to probation. [47]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1983 Reuben, Reuben Geneva Spofford
1985 Witness Rachel Lapp
1986 Top Gun Charlotte 'Charlie' Blackwood
1987 Made in Heaven Annie Packert / Ally Chandler
Unsettled Land Anda
Santabear's High Flying AdventureMissy Bear (voice)Short
1988 The House on Carroll Street Emily Crane
The Accused Assistant District Attorney Kathryn Murphy
1989 Winter People Collie Wright
Cat Chaser Mary DeBoya
Rabbit Ears: Thumbelina NarratorVideo short
1991 Grand Isle Edna Pontellier
1992 Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach Marriott Manager
The Babe Claire Merritt Ruth
Rabbit Ears: Noah and the Ark NarratorVideo short
1994 North Amish Mother
1998 Painted Angels Nettie
Ground Control Susan Stratton
1999 At First Sight Jennie Adamson
The Settlement Fake Barbara / Ellie
2000 The Monkey's Mask Professor Diana Maitland
2001 No One Can Hear You Trish Burchall
Morgan's Ferry Vonnie CarpenterDirect-To-Video
2007 Girl 27 HerselfDocumentary
Archival footage
Special Thanks
Supergator Kim Taft
2010 Stake Land Sister
1 a Minute Herself
Narrator (Voice)		Documentary
2011 The Innkeepers Leanne Rease-Jones
What Could Have BeenMargaret
2013 We Are What We Are Marge
Tio Papi Elizabeth Warden
2014Grand StreetIsabelle
2015BlueMs. Hutcherson
2021 Val HerselfDocumentary
Archival footage
Archival pictures
2022 Top Gun: Maverick Charlotte 'Charlie' Blackwood Archival footage from the 1986 film Top Gun
Uncredited
2024 Brats Charlotte 'Charlie' Blackwood / HerselfArchival pictures from the 1986 film Top Gun
Uncredited

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1984Sweet RevengeKatherine Dennison BreenTV film
One Life to Live Glenda LivingstonUnknown episodes
1985 Private Sessions Jennifer ColesTV film
1986Santabear's First ChristmasNarrator (voice)TV film
1992 Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing Mrs. Joel McKelveyTV film
Uncredited
1993Bonds of LoveRose ParksTV film
1994 In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness Susie LynchTV film
1995Dark EyesMila McGannUnsold TV pilot
Remember Me Menly NicholsTV film
Out of IrelandNarrator, Documentary Film PBS TV film
1996We the JuryAlyce BellTV film
1997 The Third Twin Dr. Jean 'Jeannie' FerramiTV film
1998Storm Chasers: Revenge of the TwisterJamie MarshallTV film
Perfect PreyAudrey MacleahTV film
2000 The Wild Thornberrys Winema (voice)Episodes: "Pack of Thornberrys"
The Outer Limits Nicole WhitleyEpisodes: "Final Appeal: Parts 1 & 2"
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Gorgeous Woman (voice)Episode: "Planet of the Lost"
2003Journey To Planet EarthNarrator (voice)Documentary TV series
Episode 2: "Land Of Plenty, Land Of Want"
Episode 4: "Rivers Of Destiny"
Episode 6: "The Urban Explosion"
2006Black WidowerNancy WestveldTV film
2008 The L Word Colonel Gillian DavisEpisodes: "Lesbians Gone Wild", "Lay Down the Law"
2014 Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio Bertha TroylerTV film
Z Nation HelenEpisode: "Sisters of Mercy"
2017An Uncommon GraceElizabeth Conner Hallmark Channel TV film
2018 Maternal Secrets Rose LewisTV film
2020 Dirty John Miriam SaslawSeason 2: "The Betty Broderick Story", Episode No. 5 (No. 13 overall): "Scream Therapy" (Uncredited)

Music Videos

YearArtistTitleRoleNotes
1986 Kenny Loggins Danger Zone Charlotte 'Charlie' Blackwood Archival footage from the 1986 film Top Gun
Berlin Take My Breath Away Charlotte 'Charlie' Blackwood Archival footage from the 1986 film Top Gun

Producer

YearTitleNotes
1991 Grand Isle

Awards and nominations

YearAssociationCategoryNominated workResult
1986 Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion PictureWitnessNominated
BAFTA Award Best ActressWitnessNominated
Bravo Otto Best ActressTop GunWon
1987Bravo OttoBest ActressMade in HeavenWon
Golden Ciak Best ActressMade in HeavenWon
1988Bravo OttoBest ActressThe AccusedBronze
2018California Women’s Film FestivalBest Supporting ActressMaternal SecretsWon
Southampton International Film FestivalSupporting Actress in a FeatureMaternal SecretsNominated

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