Kelly McGillis

Kelly McGillis (2010)

Kelly McGillis (born July 9, 1957 in Newport Beach , California ) is an American actress . She was best known for the leading roles in The Only Witness (alongside Harrison Ford ) and Top Gun (alongside Tom Cruise ).

Life

Kelly McGillis is the daughter of doctor Donald McGillis and his wife Joan, b. Snell. In 1982 she was raped by two men who broke into her apartment. As a result of this experience, she played the role of prosecutor in Defendant in 1988 . Group rape is the subject of the film.

In 1983 McGillis played a leading role in her first film Ruben, Ruben alongside Tom Conti. In the film The Sole Witness (1985), she played Rachel Lapp , who belongs to the Amish and is protected by police officer John Book ( Harrison Ford ). For this role she was nominated for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award in 1986. From the Amish side, however, she was heavily criticized because, in order to prepare well for the role, she had gained access to an Amish family under false pretenses. Her best-known role was as the friend of the aviator Maverick (played by Tom Cruise ) in Top Gun (1986).

McGillis was married to Boyd Black and Fred Tillman. She has two daughters and lives in Pennsylvania . In 2009 she said in an interview that she was a lesbian and that her next life partner would surely be a woman.

In September 2010, McGillis married her partner Melanie Leis, lived with her in Collingswood and worked as a caregiver for alcohol and drug addicts in Bridgeton, New Jersey . The marriage was divorced a year later.

McGillis lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina and teaches acting at The New York Studio for Stage and Screen NYS3 in Asheville, North Carolina.

Filmography

• 1983: Ruben, Ruben - Director: Robert Ellis Miller
• 1984: A Woman Can't Forget (Sweet Revenge) - Director: Robert A. Papazian
• 1984: Private Sessions - Im Labyrinth des Wahnsinns (Private Sessions) - Director: Michael Pressman
• 1985: The Witness - Director: Peter Weir
• 1986: Top Gun - You fear neither death nor the devil (Top Gun) - Director: Tony Scott
• 1987: Made in Heaven - Director: Alan Rudolph
• 1987: Winter People - Like a Leaf in the Wind (Winter People) - Director: Ted Kotcheff
• 1988: Accused (The Accused) - Director: Jonathan Kaplan
• 1988: Short Run (Cat Chaser) - Director: Abel Ferrara
• 1988: The House on Carroll Street (House on Carroll Street) - Director: Peter Yates
• 1989: Land of Sehnsucht (Dreamers) - Director: Uri Barbash
• 1991: Grand Isle (Grand Isle) - Director: Mary Lambert
• 1992: Shackles of Love - Director: Larry Elikann
• 1992: The Babe - An American Dream (The Babe) - Director: Arthur Hiller
• 1992: Perry Mason and the Art of Painting (Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing)
• 1994: Bitteres Blut (The Best of Families: Marriage, Pride and Madness) - Directed by Jeff Bleckner
• 1994: North
• 1995: House of Shadows (Remember Me) - Director: Michael Switzer
• 1997: The Third Twin - Director: Tom McLoughlin
• 1998: Ground Control - Director: Richard Howard
• 1998: In the Clutches of the Beast (Perfect Prey) - Director: Howard McCain
• 1998: Storm Chasers : Revenge of the Twister - Director: Mark Sobel
• 1999: At first glance (At First Sight) - Director: Irwin Winkler
• 1999: The Settlement - Directed by Mark Steilen
• 2000: The Monkey's Mask ; also: Die Affenmaske (The Monkey's Mask) - Director: Samantha Lang
• 2001: No One Can Hear You - Director: John Laing
• 2007: The L Word ( The L Word , TV series)
• 2007: Supergator - The Killer Crocodile ( Supergator )
• 2011: Vampire Nation (Stake Land) - Director: Jim Mickle
• 2011: The Innkeepers - Hotel des Schreckens (The Innkeepers)
• 2013: We Are What We Are - Director: Jim Mickle
• 2014: Z Nation (TV series, episode 1x11)
• 2018: Love Between Two Worlds (An Uncommon Grace) - Director: David Mackay

Web links

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• Kelly McGillis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Kelly McGillis in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
• Kelly McGillis in the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Kelly McGillis in the German dubbing file

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Resistance of the Amish against the film "The Only Witness". (No longer available online.) Täufersgeschichte.net, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved January 19, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
3. ↑ Queer: "Top Gun" star Kelly McGillis is coming out
4. ↑ Kelly McGillis: What does the top gun beauty look like today? In: GALA . May 27, 2016 ( gala.de [accessed April 25, 2017]).
5. ↑ Advocate: Kelly McGillis Ties the Knot ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ "Kelly McGillis traded Hollywood for Collingswood - and a contented existence" , nj.com, April 18, 2011 (accessed June 8, 2018)
7. ↑ Kelly McGillis traded Hollywood for Collingswood - and a contented existence , The Star-Ledger, pp. 23-25, April 18, 2011 (accessed June 8, 2018)
8. ↑ Kelly McGillis Teaches Acting in Asheville January 20, 2016 (accessed June 8, 2018)