Despite the series' eleven Emmy Awards nominations, lukewarm ratings led to its cancellation after two seasons.
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She next won the regular part of Wendy Killian in the television series Buffalo Bill, which aired from June 1983 to March 1984 and had a writing credit in one episode. It was the second most profitable film of 1982, received ten Academy Awards nominations and is considered a cult classic. Her mother chose the spelling so that people wouldn't think the name was pronounced as in "vagina." Career Rise to fame (1982–1987) ĭavis was working as a model when she was cast by director Sydney Pollack in his film Tootsie (1982) as a soap opera actor, whom she has described as "someone who's going to be in their underwear a lot of time". In her 2022 memoir, she states that her brother came up with the nickname Geena shortly after her birth to differentiate her from her Aunt Virginia, who went by the nickname Ginny. Her first post-university work was as a model for window mannequins at Ann Taylor she then signed with New York's Zoli modeling agency. She wanted to study acting at Boston University but missed the required audition during her year in Sweden, so she began her college education at New England College before transferring to Boston University she didn't earn enough credits to graduate, having received a grade of "incomplete" in at least one class and an F in "movement" class. She attended Wareham High School and was an exchange student in Sandviken, Sweden, where she became fluent in Swedish. Davis was also a cheerleader and was cheer captain her senior year of high school. She learned piano and flute and played organ well enough as a teenager to be organist at her Congregational church in Wareham. She became interested in music at an early age. Davis has an older brother, Danforth ("Dan"). Davis, was a civil engineer and church deacon. Her mother, Lucille ( née Cook), was a teacher's assistant, and her father, William F. Thanks to the organization, she was awarded with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award bestowed by the Academy Awards in 2019 and with the Governors Award given by the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2022.ĭavis was born on January 21, 1956, in Wareham, Massachusetts. Through the organization, she launched the annual Bentonville Film Festival in 2015, and executive produced the documentary This Changes Everything in 2018. In 2004, Davis launched the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which works collaboratively with the entertainment industry to dramatically increase the presence of female characters in media. Nicole Herman in Grey's Anatomy (2014–2015, 2018) and that of Regan MacNeil–Angela Rance in the first season of the horror television series The Exorcist (2017).
She has portrayed the recurring role of Dr. Her later films include Accidents Happen (2009) and Marjorie Prime (2017). However, Davis's roles in the box office failures Cutthroat Island (1995) and The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), both directed by then-husband Renny Harlin, were followed by a lengthy break and downturn in her career.ĭavis starred as the adoptive mother of the titular character in the Stuart Little franchise (1999–2005) and as the first female president of the United States in the television series Commander in Chief (2005–2006), winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her role in the latter. She established herself as a leading lady with the road film Thelma & Louise (1991), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the sports film A League of Their Own (1992), garnering a Golden Globe Award nomination. While the fantasy comedy Beetlejuice (1988) brought her to prominence, the drama The Accidental Tourist (1988) earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.Īfter studying drama at Boston University, Davis made her acting debut in the film Tootsie (1982) and eventually starred in the thriller The Fly (1986), which proved to be one of her first box office hits. Virginia Elizabeth " Geena" Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an American actor and producer.
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