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. McGillis starred in a Pasadena Playhouse stage production of The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman in May 2009, co-starring with Julia Duffy. In 2004, she appeared in the stage play The Graduate as Mrs. In 2002, she appeared in production of John Webber's play " The Duchess of Malfi" at the Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC. She appeared in a couple of off-broadway and Broadway theater productions during the 1980s in New York City.ĭuring the late-1980s and through the mid-2000s, McGillis was a featured actress at the prestigious Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC. While at Juilliard she performed in William Congreve's Love for Love, directed by John Bletchley. She also narrated the documentary Out of Ireland for PBS in 1995. Other television films during the 1980s included Private Sessions in 1985, and as a narrator in Santabear's First Christmas.
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She starred in the 1984 television movie Sweet Revenge (also known as Bittersweet Revenge) with Alec Baldwin. McGillis' early television roles included a part on the daytime soap One Life to Live in 1984. The film is based on the verse novel of the same name by Australian poet Dorothy Porter. 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. 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. 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. McGillis played the part of Babe Ruth's second wife, Claire Merritt Ruth, in The Babe (1992). McGillis appeared in dozens of television and film roles throughout the 1990s before taking a break from acting for a few years.
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.Īfter 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. McGillis played the part of caretaker for Miss Venable ( Jessica Tandy) in 1988's The House on Carroll Street, which also starred Jeff Daniels.
In 1987, McGillis acted in the romance film Made in Heaven, directed by Alan Rudolph, which was produced by Lorimar Productions. 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.
Career Film Īfter making her film debut in Reuben, Reuben in 1983, McGillis' breakout role was that of an Amish mother in Witness (1985) for which she received Golden Globe and BAFTA award nominations. After getting her GED after dropping out of high school in 1975, she moved to New York City to study acting at the Juilliard School, where she graduated in 1983, Group 12. McGillis was raised in Los Angeles, and attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California. Her paternal ancestry is Scots-Irish, and her maternal ancestry is German she also has Welsh ancestry. 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. 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). 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 Kathryn Murphy in The Accused (1988). Kelly Ann McGillis (born July 9, 1957) is an American actress.
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