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 starring Susie Porter in The Monkey's Mask, an international lesbian cult film from 2000. 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 fantasy-comedy 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.
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.
McGillis is of Scots-Irish descent from her father's side, and German from her mother, and Welsh also. McGillis was born on July 9, 1957, in Newport Beach, California, the daughter of Virginia Joan ( née Snell), a homemaker, and Dr.
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