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Geena Davis - Biography |
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Both a former Victoria's Secret
model and card-carrying member of MENSA, Geena Davis established herself
in Hollywood by playing the quirky protagonist in a wide variety of dramas
and romantic comedies, though she has also tested the waters in action
films and sci-fi horror. Davis showed an interest in show-business from
childhood on, and transferred from New England College to Boston
University in order to participate within the university's drama program.
After receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts in 1979, she moved to New
York City in hopes of being discovered.
Once there, Davis took on several odd jobs; the oddest, perhaps, being her
stint as a department store mannequin. A then struggling actress turned in
a job performance impressive enough to attract the attention of Zoli
Agents, a prominent modeling company. No longer mere window dressing, the
six-foot Davis worked as a lingerie model until making her acting debut in
the television sitcom Buffalo Bill (1982); she would later write an
episode for the same program. Her resume grew slowly but surely, and it
wasn't long before she won a recurring role on the long-running Family
Ties (1982-1989) as budding entrepreneur Alex P. Keaton's (Michael J. Fox)
maid.
Davis made her first feature-film appearance playing a small role in
Tootsie (1982). In 1985, she played the title role in Sara, a short-lived
NBC sit-com revolving around a single and fiercely independent lawyer
trying to make ends meet in San Francisco. That same year, Davis
co-starred with Jeff Goldblum in the vampire spoof Transylvania 6-5000.
Goldblum, whom she would later marry, once again was paired with Davis in
director David Cronenberg's cult favorite The Fly (1986). The Fly's
success officially put Davis on the map, and she would gain further
critical notice for her role as a recently deceased housewife in Tim
Burton's Beetlejuice. The following year she won a Best Supporting Actress
Oscar for her role in The Accidental Tourist (1988), in which she played
an eccentric dog-walker, and reteamed with Jeff Goldblum in 1989's sci-fi
musical Earth Girls Are Easy.
Davis received a second Oscar nomination for her part in Ridley Scott's
groundbreaking Thelma and Louise (1991), which cast her as an oppressed
housewife opposite Hollywood veteran Susan Sarandon. With her film career
steadily growing, Davis starred alongside Tom Hanks in the role of a
whip-smart baseball ingenue in Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own
(1992), and co-starred in 1992's Speechless with Michael Keaton. She broke
away from supporting roles and ensemble films to play the lead role in
Martha Coolidge's Angie (1994), which featured Davis in the role of a
single mother trying to keep her head above water. She went on to marry
director Renny Harlin in 1993, who cast her in 1995's Cutthroat Island as
well as the 1996 action-thriller The Long Kiss Good Night. Though playing
herself in 2000's The Geena Davis Show proved unfruitful, Davis' role in
Rob Minkoff's Stuart Little franchise fared much better. In the fall of
2005 she will try television again by appearing on the new series
"Commander in Chief."
Davis is currently married to plastic surgeon Reza Jarrahy. The couple
live in Los Angeles with their 3 children. |
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Geena Davis - Personal Quotes |
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"I have an elbow that bends
the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the
doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it,
and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'"
[Talking about the shows her children watch]: "As I watched kids'
programs with them, I became concerned about gender balance and
stereotypes. Boys take up much more space on TV than in real life." |
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Geena Davis - Filmography |
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"Commander in Chief" ....
President Mackenzie Allen (18 episodes, 2005-2006)
- Unfinished Business (2006) TV Episode .... President Mackenzie
Allen
- Happy Birthday, Madam President (2006) TV Episode .... President
Mackenzie Allen
- The Elephant in the Room (2006) TV Episode .... President
Mackenzie Allen
- Ties That Bind (2006) TV Episode .... President Mackenzie Allen
- The Price You Pay (2006) TV Episode .... President Mackenzie Allen
(13 more)
Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005) (V) (voice) .... Mrs.
Eleanor Little
"Will & Grace" .... Janet Adler (1 episode, 2004)
- The Accidental Tsuris (2004) TV Episode .... Janet Adler
Stuart Little 2 (2002) .... Mrs. Eleanor Little
"The Geena Davis Show" .... Teddie Cochran (9 episodes, 2000-2001)
- White Moms Can't Jump (2001) TV Episode .... Teddie Cochran
- The Long Kiss Goodbye (2000) TV Episode .... Teddie Cochran
- Cooties (2000) TV Episode .... Teddie Cochran
- There's Something About Max (2000) TV Episode .... Teddie Cochran
- Motherly Advice (2000) TV Episode .... Teddie Cochran
(4 more)
Stuart Little (1999) .... Mrs. Eleanor Little
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) .... Samantha Caine/Charly Baltimore
Fairy Tales on Ice: Alice Through the Looking Glass (1996) (V) ....
Narrator
Cutthroat Island (1995) .... Morgan Adams
... aka Île aux pirates, L' (France)
... aka Corsari (Italy)
... aka Piratenbraut, Die (Germany)
Speechless (1994) .... Julia Mann
Angie (1994) .... Angie Scacciapensieri
Princess Scargo and the Birthday Pumpkin (1993) (voice) ....
Narrator
Hero (1992/I) .... Gale Gayley, Channel 4 News Reporter
... aka Accidental Hero
A League of Their Own (1992) .... Dottie Hinson
Thelma & Louise (1991) .... Thelma Yvonne Dickinson
Quick Change (1990) .... Phyllis Potter
"Trying Times" .... Daphne (1 episode, 1989)
- The Hit List (1989) TV Episode .... Daphne
"Saturday Night Live" .... Host (1 episode, 1989)
... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: first season title)
... aka SNL (USA: informal title)
... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title)
... aka Saturday Night (USA: second season title)
... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: sixth season title)
- Episode #14.18 (1989) TV Episode .... Host
The Accidental Tourist (1988) .... Muriel Pritchett
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) .... Valerie
Beetle Juice (1988) .... Barbara
The Fly (1986) .... Veronica Quaife
... aka Mouche, La (Canada: French title)
Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) .... Odette
"George Burns Comedy Week" (1 episode, 1985)
- Dream, Dream, Dream (1985) TV Episode
Fletch (1985) .... Larry
"Remington Steele" .... Sandy Dalrymple (1 episode, 1985)
- Steele in the Chips (1985) TV Episode .... Sandy Dalrymple
Secret Weapons (1985) (TV) .... Tamara Reshevsky/Brenda
... aka Secrets of the Red Bedroom
... aka Sexpionage
"Sara" (1985) TV Series .... Sara McKenna (unknown episodes)
"Family Ties" .... Karen Nicholson (2 episodes, 1984)
- Karen II, Alex 0 (1984) TV Episode .... Karen Nicholson
- Help Wanted (1984) TV Episode .... Karen Nicholson
"Riptide" .... Dr. Melba Bozinsky (1 episode, 1984)
- Raiders of the Lost Sub (1984) TV Episode .... Dr. Melba Bozinsky
"Fantasy Island" .... Whitney Clark (1 episode, 1984)
- Don Juan's Last Affair/Final Adieu (1984) TV Episode .... Whitney
Clark
"Buffalo Bill" .... Wendy Killian (3 episodes, 1983-1984)
- The Tap Dancer (1984) TV Episode .... Wendy Killian
- Company Ink (1984) TV Episode .... Wendy Killian
- Jerry Lewis Week (1984) TV Episode .... Wendy Killian
"Knight Rider" .... Grace Fallon (1 episode, 1983)
- K.I.T.T. the Cat (1983) TV Episode .... Grace Fallon
Tootsie (1982) .... April Page |
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Geena Davis - Related Links |
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Wikipedia: Geena Davis
YouTube: Geena Davis
Geena Davis at Celebs, Inc.
Geena Davis at Babemania.com
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