| BIOGRAPHY
Actress Kelly McGillis claims to have been a lonely, overweight
adolescent who found an escape from her misery through acting.
She studied at Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts and Julliard,
making an impressive film debut as the erstwhile lady friend/"savior"
of drunken poet Tom Conti in 1983's Reuben, Reuben.
McGillis spent considerable time with an Amish family to prepare
for her next important film role as a young Amish widow in 1985's
Witness; the family wasn't happy in retrospect, claiming that
Kelly misrepresented her interest in their lifestyle.
The actress's best role since Witness has been as the attorney
defending rape victim Jodie Foster in The Accused (1988); during
production, McGillis made public the story of her own earlier
rape, and became a militant advocate for assault victim' rights.
In 1992, McGillis was second-billed in The Babe (1992) as Claire
Hodgson, the no-nonsense second wife of baseball great Babe Ruth
(John Goodman). |
FILMOGRAPHY
• The Monkey's Mask (2001)
• No One Can Hear You (2001)
• At First Sight (1999)
• Morgan's Ferry (1999)
• Ground Control (1998)
• The Settlement (1998)
• Storm Chasers (1998)
• When the Bough Breaks II: Perfect Prey (1998)
• The Wicked Wicked West (1998)
• Bonds of Love (1993)
• The Babe (1992)
• Grand Isle (1991)
• Cat Chaser (1990)
• Code of Honor (1990)
• Winter People (1989)
• The Accused (1988)
• Unsettled Land (1988)
• The House on Carroll Street (1987)
• Made in Heaven (1987)
• Santabear's High Flying Adventure (1987)
• Santabear's First Christmas (1986)
• Top Gun (1986)
• Witness (1985)
• Reuben, Reuben (1983) |
