Kelly Ann McGillis (born July 9, 1957) is a stage actress from the United States. She is best known for her roles as Rachel Lapp in Witness (1985), for which she received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations, Charlie in Top Gun (1986), Made in Heaven (1987), The House on Carroll Street (1988), and Kathryn Murphy in The Accused (1989). (1988).
She went on to appear in horror films such as Stake Land (2010), The Innkeepers (2011), and We Are What We Are (2013).
McGillis’ breakthrough 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, Reuben in 1983. In the 1986 fighter-pilot film Top Gun, she played flight instructor Charlotte Blackwood (call sign “Charlie”). McGillis appeared in Alan Rudolph’s 1987 romance film Made in Heaven, which was produced by Lorimar Productions.
McGillis played Miss Venable’s (Jessica Tandy) caretaker in 1988’s The House on Carroll Street, which also starred Jeff Daniels. She overhears a suspicious conversation in the next-door house and suspects she’s stumbled upon a plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the United States.
She appeared in Cat Chaser with Peter Weller after 1988’s The Accused, a film she despised and discouraged her from pursuing an acting career. McGillis appeared in dozens of television and film roles throughout the 1990s before taking a few years off from acting. In The Babe, McGillis portrayed Babe Ruth’s second wife, Claire Merritt Ruth (1992). From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, McGillis appeared in several made-for-TV films, including Winter People (1989) and North (1994), her second Amish role in television or film. McGillis co-starred in At First Sight with Val Kilmer (who plays Virgil, a blind man) for the second time as his overprotective sister in 1999.
Who is Kelly McGillis’s husband Boyd Black?
Boyd Black and Kelly McGillis had one year of marriage. They dated for a year after meeting in 1978 before getting married on April 14, 1979.
