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Introduction
Kelly McGillis is an American stage and screen actress widely known for her film roles, such as Rachel Lapp in Witness (1985) with Harrison Ford, for which she received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations; Charlie in Top Gun (1986) with Tom Cruise; Made in Heaven (1987) with Timothy Hutton; The House on Carroll Street (1988) with Jeff Daniels and Jessica Tandy; and as Kathryn Murphy in The Accused (1988) with Jodie Foster. 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).
Early life
| Name | Kelly McGillis |
| Net Worth | $5 million |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Height | 1.78m |
| Age | 64 years |
Kelly Ann McGillis was born on July 9, 1957 (age 64 years) in Los Angeles County, California, United States. She is the eldest of three daughters born to Virginia Joan Snell, a homemaker, and Donald Manson McGillis, a physician. Her paternal ancestry is Scots-Irish, and her maternal ancestry is German; she also has Welsh ancestry. She attended Newport Harbor High School.
McGillis was raised in Los Angeles and attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Per forming Arts at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California. 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.
Career
Kelly McGillis breakout role was that of an Amish mother in Witness (1985) for which she received Golden Globe and BAFTA award nominations after making her film debut in Reuben in 1983. Her next high-profile role was that of flight instructor Charlotte Blackwood (call sign “Charlie”) in the 1986 fighter-pilot film Top Gun.
McGillis acted in the romance film Made in Heaven in 1987, directed by Alan Rudolph, which was produced by Lorimar Productions. 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 act ing career. McGillis appeared in dozens of television and film roles throughout the 1990s before taking a break from acting for a few years.
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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, Kelly McGillis co-starred with Val Kilmer (who plays Virgil, a blind man), for the second time as his over protective sister in At First Sight. 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.
Other tv-shows
Kelly 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. 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.
McGillis performed in William Congreve’s Love for Love, directed by John Bletchley while she was at Juilliard. She appeared in a couple of off-broadway and Broadway theater productions during the 1980s in New York City. During the late-1980s and through the mid-2000s, McGillis was a featured actress at the prestigious Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC.
In 2002, Kelly McGillis appeared in the 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. McGillis starred in a Pasadena Playhouse stage production of The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman in May 2009, co-starring Julia Duffy.
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.
Kelly McGillis also appeared in a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally, which toured the United Kingdom in 2010. She began working in television again in 2006, then in 2007 joined the cast of Showtime’s The L Word for its fifth season.
McGillis had a role in the 2010 vampire film Stake Land, directed by Jim Mickle, starring alongside Nick Damici, Connor Paolo and Danielle Harris. McGillis was featured in a breast cancer docu-drama titled 1 a Minute, released in 2010.
She starred in Ti West’s 2011 thriller The Innkeepers, We Are What We Are and Tio Papi in 2013, Grand Street, Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio (which was McGillis’ 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’ fourth Amish themed film. and she had the lead role in Mother of All Secrets (filmed in Bermuda) in 2017 as Rose Lewis. McGillis has been cast in the lead role in the biographical film Annie Cook.
House and other issues
“The Centurion”, a 110-foot schooner valued at $1.5 million owned by McGillis and her 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 Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show.
Kelly McGillis came out as a lesbian in 2009 during an interview with SheWired. In 2010, she entered into a civil union with Melanie Leis, a Philadelphia sales executive. She and McGillis had met in 2000 when Leis was a bartender at Kelly’s Caribbean Bar Grill & Brewery in Key West, Florida, which McGillis owned with her then-husband Fred Tillman.
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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. 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.
June 2016 home invasion
McGillis was left scratched and bruised after being reportedly assaulted by a woman who broke into her North Carolina home on June 17, 2016. She said the attack, as well as others she has experienced in the past, led her to apply for a concealed carry gun 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. Dorn was later convicted of misdemeanor breaking and entering.
Husband
Kelly McGillis was married to her first husband Boyd Black in 1979, but the couple divorced in 1981. Her first was her fellow Juilliard student. She married her second husband Fred Tillman in 1989, and they have two daughters, Kelsey and Sonora. The couple divorced in 2002. However, in 1982, McGillis was raped by two men in her New York apartment. Leroy Johnson, who was 15 years old at the time, was sentenced to three years in prison, but the other assailant had all charges dropped due to a lack of corroborative evidence.
Kelly McGillis net worth
How much is Kelly McGillis worth? Kelly McGillis net worth is estimated at around $5 million. Her main source of income is from her career as a stage and screen actress. Her successful career has earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. She is one of the richest and influential actresses in the United States.