Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis was born on January 21,1956 and is an American actor and producer.
51 Facts About Geena Davis
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Geena Davis is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
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Geena Davis was born on January 21,1956, in Wareham, Massachusetts.
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Geena Davis's mother, Lucille, was a teacher's assistant, and her father, William F Davis, was a civil engineer and church deacon.
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Geena Davis became interested in music at an early age.
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Geena Davis learned piano and flute and played organ well enough as a teenager to be organist at her Congregational church in Wareham.
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Geena Davis was a cheerleader and was cheer captain her senior year of high school.
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Geena Davis attended Wareham High School and was an exchange student in Sandviken, Sweden, where she became fluent in Swedish.
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Geena Davis 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.
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Geena Davis was working as a model when she was cast by director Sydney Pollack in his film Tootsie as a soap opera actor, whom she has described as "someone who's going to be in their underwear a lot of time".
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Geena Davis 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.
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Geena Davis concurrently guest-starred in Knight Rider, Riptide, Family Ties and Remington Steele, and followed with a series of her own, Sara, which lasted 13 episodes.
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Geena Davis took on the role of an animal hospital employee and dog trainer with a sickly son in the drama The Accidental Tourist, opposite William Hurt and Kathleen Turner.
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Geena Davis appeared as the girlfriend of a man who, dressed as a clown, robs a bank in midtown Manhattan, in the comedy Quick Change.
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Geena Davis received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role.
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In 1992, Geena Davis starred alongside Madonna and Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own as a baseball player on an all-women's team.
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Geena Davis played a television reporter in the comedy Hero alongside Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia.
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In 1994's Angie, Geena Davis played an office worker who lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn and dreams of a better life.
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The film received mixed reviews from critics, despite much praise for Geena Davis, and was a commercial failure.
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Geena Davis teamed up with her then-husband, director Renny Harlin, for the films Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight, with Harlin hoping that they would turn her into an action star.
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Geena Davis divorced Harlin in 1998 and took an "unusually long" two years off to reflect on her career, according to The New York Times.
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Geena Davis appeared as Eleanor Little in the well-received family comedy Stuart Little, a role she reprised in Stuart Little 2 and again in Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild.
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Geena Davis went on to star in the ABC television series Commander in Chief, portraying the first female president of the United States.
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Geena Davis was nominated for an Emmy Award and a SAG Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series.
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Geena Davis was awarded the 2006 Women in Film Lucy Award.
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Geena Davis was the only American actor to be cast in the Australian-produced film Accidents Happen, portraying a foul-mouthed and strict mother.
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Geena Davis stated that it was the most fun she had ever had on a film set, and felt a deep friendship and connection to both of the actors who played her sons.
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Geena Davis played a powerful female movie executive in the critically acclaimed comedy In a World.
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In 2014, Geena Davis provided her voice for the English version of the Studio Ghibli animated film When Marnie Was There, as she was drawn to the film's abundant stories and strong use of female characters.
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Geena Davis played the recurring role of Dr Nicole Herman, an attending fetal surgeon with a life-threatening brain tumor, during the 11th season of Grey's Anatomy.
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In 2015, Geena Davis launched an annual film festival to be held in Bentonville, Arkansas, to highlight diversity in film, accepting films that prominently feature minorities and women in the cast and crew.
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Geena Davis appeared as the mother of a semi-famous television star in the comedy Me Him Her.
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In 2017, Geena Davis starred in the film adaptation Marjorie Prime, alongside Jon Hamm, playing the daughter of an 85-year old experiencing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, and appeared as the imaginary god of a heavyset 13-year-old girl in the comedy Don't Talk to Irene.
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In 2018, Geena Davis returned to Grey's Anatomy, reprising the role of Dr Nicole Herman in the show's 14th season, and executive produced the documentary This Changes Everything, in which she was interviewed about her experiences in the industry.
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In 2022, Geena Davis' likeness was used for the character of Poison Ivy in the DC Entertainment comic book series Batman '89, set between the events of Batman Returns and The Flash.
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In October 2022, HarperOne published Geena Davis's Dying of Politeness: A Memoir of her journey from childhood conventional New England femininity and trauma to feminist "badassery", one role at a time, on screen and in the real world.
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Geena Davis began dating restaurateur Richard Emmolo in December 1977 and moved in with him a month later.
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Geena Davis filed for divorce in October 1990, and it was finalized the following year.
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Geena Davis directed her in Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight.
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Geena Davis filed for divorce on August 26,1997, a day after her personal assistant Tiffany Browne gave birth to a child fathered by Harlin.
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In 1998, Geena Davis started dating Iranian-American craniofacial plastic surgeon Reza Jarrahy, and allegedly married him on September 1,2001.
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In May 2018, Jarrahy filed for divorce from Geena Davis, listing their date of separation as November 15,2017.
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Geena Davis responded by filing a petition in which she claimed that she and Jarrahy were never legally married.
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Geena Davis is a supporter of the Women's Sports Foundation and an advocate for Title IX, an Act of Congress focusing on equality in sports opportunities, now expanded to prohibit gender discrimination in American educational institutions.
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In 2004, while watching children's television programs and videos with her daughter, Geena Davis noticed an imbalance in the ratio of male to female characters.
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Geena Davis went on to sponsor the largest-ever research project on gender in children's entertainment at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
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In 2005, Geena Davis teamed up with the non-profit group Dads and Daughters to launch a venture dedicated to balancing the number of male and female characters in children's television and movie programming.
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In 2011, Geena Davis became one of a handful of celebrities attached to USAID and Ad Council's FWD campaign, an awareness initiative tied to that year's East Africa drought.
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Geena Davis joined Uma Thurman, Chanel Iman and Josh Hartnett in television and internet ads to "forward the facts" about the crisis.
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In July 1999, Geena Davis was one of 300 women who vied for a semifinals berth in the US Olympic archery team to participate in the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics.
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Geena Davis placed 24th and did not qualify for the team, but participated as a wild-card entry in the Sydney International Golden Arrow competition.