Geena Davis - Biography

Last Editor: Ajoyangel				Geena Davis Biography -   Name : Geena Davis Birth Date : January 21, 1956 Birth Place : Wareham, Massachusetts, USA Birth Name : Virginia Elizabeth Davis Height : 6' Education : Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts (majored in Drama; graduated in 1979; B.F.A.; Studied in the Professional Actors' Program Nationality : American Profession : Actor, athlete, model, producer, writer Claim to fame : as April in Tootsie (1982)

Geena Davis Trivia -

Amid signs reading DON'T DROP THE BALL ON GIRLS, Davis joined women athletes at a rally to preserve Title IX, the federal law on gender equity in university sports – she also addressed U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige's Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, which held its final public forum Wednesday in San Diego. (November 22, 2002) At the end of the THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (1996) Davis is driving a convertible and wearing a scarf and sunglasses. This is also how she ends THELMA & LOUISE (1991). In the scene of THELMA & LOUISE (1991) where the tanker truck is shot and blown up, her reaction as well as Susan Sarandon's are genuine - rather than filming separate reaction shots, director Ridley Scott rigged the tanker to blow up during the take, in order to get authentic expressions of surprise from the two leads. Wears a size 11 shoe Placed 24th out of 28 semi-finalists for Olympic Archery team. (21 August 1999) Ranked #61 in Empire (UK) magazine's The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list. (October 1997) A member of MENSA with an IQ of 140. Attended school in Sweden as an exchange student. Speaks Swedish. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#31). [1995] Was considered for the lead in RUNAWAY BRIDE (1999). Was considered for the lead role of Kate McQueen in FAIR GAME (1995). The part eventually went to Cindy Crawford. In 1996, was the top contender for the role of the evil Queen Beryl in a proposed SAILOR MOON live action movie. The project was later scrapped. was assistant organist in her church in her hometown in Massachusetts. Was in It's a sin Pet Shop Boys video. Her current husband, Dr. Reza Jarrahy, a neurosurgeon, is Persian (Iranian). His last name Jarrahy in Persian means Surgery. Was paid $200,000 per episode for THE GEENA DAVIS SHOW (2000) Semifinalist for US Women's Olympic Archery Team in 1999 Used to pose as a window mannequin which eventually gave her a spot in the Victoria Secret's catalogs.

Geena Davis Detailed Biography -

Geena Davis was born on 21st Jan 1957 in Wareham, Massachusetts. Having a MENSA IQ and a degree in fine arts from Boston University, she moved to New York City in hopes of being discovered. After working as a waitress and a model, Davis got her big screen break in the movie "The Fly, and in 1988's Beetlejuice". Stunning and goofy, awkward and graceful, glittering and earthy, Davis has played sci-fi, horror, action, drama, comedy and romance with equal penance. She debuted in film with a small part in Tootsie (1982), and was cast, that year, in a recurring role in television’s Family Ties. She went on to Buffalo Bill in 1983, and wrote one episode of that cult hit. In 1985, Davis starred as a single lawyer looking for love in the television series Sara. The show proved to be ten years ahead of its time, but its failure opened big-screen doors. What followed was Fletch (1985), Secret Weapons (1985), Transylvania 6-5000 (1985), The Fly (1986) – and a 1987 to 1990 marriage to her Fly co-star Jeff Goldblum (she had been married briefly, in 1981, to restaurant manager Richard Eminolo) – Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), Beetlejuice (1988), and The Accidental Tourist (1998 – for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar). It was for Davis’ next film, Thelma and Louise (1991), that fans, critics, and judge panels went mad. Davis (and co-star Susan Sarandon) netted Oscar, Golden Globe, British Academy Award and MTV Movie Award nominations, as well as the Boston Society of Film Critics Award, the National Board of Review Best Actress Award, and the David di Donatello Award. 1992 brought Hero and A League of Their Own (for another Golden Globe nomination and MTV Movie Award nod). In 1994, Davis tried her hand at producing, also starring in, Speechless, another Golden Globe nominated film. She has since, under the name of her production company, “The Forge,” produced The Politician’s Wife, The Decision, Mistrial and Bigmalion. She was the lead in Angie (1994), and then two films – Cutthroat Island (1995) and The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) – by director Renny Harlin, to whom she was married from 1993 to 1998. In 1999, Davis was nominated for a Saturn Award for her performance in Stuart Little. Davis is also a world-class athlete, ranked 24th of the 28 semi-finalists for the United States Archery Team in 1999. She’s “way down” at number 61 on one list (Empire Magazine’s) of the “Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time.”