Geena Davis

Virginia Elizabeth Davis was born on January 21, 1956 in Massachusetts, United States and comes from a humble family. Her mother, Lucille, was a teacher’s assistant and her father, William, worked in the church and as a civil engineer. Although she felt displaced at school and did not have much self-esteem, her enormous height played an important role, she did not give up on her dream of being an actress. During her middle years as a globetrotter, she moved to Boston and there she graduated from college, majoring in drama. Upon finishing her, Geena moved to the Big Apple, where she began a brief modeling career that would lead to her signing with Victoria’s Secret. Thanks to this brand, director Sydney Pollack found her and offered her her first role in the funny Tootsie ., a comedy that he made together with Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange and that tells the story of Michael Dorsey, an actor in low hours who decides to go to a casting posing as a woman.

His good behavior in front of the camera was noted and in 1986 he worked with an unknown David Cronenberg in The Fly , a science fiction and horror film that shook the general public. On set she met her husband of three years, Jeff Goldblum . Two years later, Geena Davis made a splash by winning her first and only supporting actress Oscar with the comedy-drama The Accidental Tourist , in which she played a wild and flamboyant young woman who shows a dilapidated William Hurt the way to happiness . With almost no time to rest, that same year Davis premiered with Tim Burton as director, the fun and entertaining fantastic comedyBitelchus .  

Entering the nineties, Geena starred with the charismatic Bill Murray in the comedy of thieves With the Cops on the Heels , a pleasant film in which she played the girlfriend of the protagonist and an accomplice in the robbery. Her last major work in a drama was with the acclaimed Thelma & Louise (1991), a film directed by Ridley Scott , for which she earned an Oscar nomination alongside her co-star Susan Sarandon . The tape tells of the dramatic escape from justice of two friends who have committed a crime. The next few years of her would be marked by the nice comedies They hit it off, in which she fought for the Golden Globe, Accidental Hero andangie .

His free fall occurred in 1995 with the unjustly ousted The Island of the Severed Heads , an adventure and pirate film that was entertaining but did not work at the box office and was squandered by critics. She also ruined the one who at that time was her husband and director of the film Renny Harlin . From this moment on, Geena Davis’ cachet dropped and her star faded, leaving behind that label of a sex symbol from the early nineties. Her next project, the thriller Lethal Memory opposite Samuel L. Jackson , went unnoticed at the box office. At the end of the nineties Geena Davis subscribed to the family comedy genre with the endearing Stuart Little, about a little mouse who is adopted by a human family. Given the good reception it received, a sequel was prepared that garnered worse reviews but continued to please the little ones. The following projects that she worked on are limited to independent and little-known features like Accidents Happen or The Voice of a Generation .

On the other hand, Geena always combined television with the big screen. The small appearances of her in the silly box have been many. From Fantastic Car , Buffalo Bill , The Geena Davis Hour or Will and Grace , to resurfacing with the award-winning Mrs. President , for which she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress, and becoming a fixture in twelve episodes of Grey’s Anatomy .

Geena is currently married to Reza Jarrahy, her fourth husband, and has three children.