Biography
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Meg Tilly (born February 14 1960) is an Oscar-nominated American actress, Broadway stage dancer and ballerina.
Early Life and Family
Tilly was born Margaret Chan in Long Beach, California in 1960, the third of four children of Harry Chan, a Chinese-American businessman and Patricia Tilly, a schoolteacher. Following her parents divorce when she was three, she was raised by her mother and stepfather in British Columbia, Canada. Tilly graduated from Esquimalt High School in Victoria, British Columbia. She has two sisters: Rebecca, and actress Jennifer Tilly (born 1958).
Teenage and Early Career
As a teen, she was involved with the Connecticut Ballet Company, as well as the Throne Dance Theatre, and made her screen debut with Alan Parker's Fame in 1980.
Acting career in films and television
A serious back injury forced her to give up dance, and she entered the field of acting, appearing in The Big Chill, and Psycho II before appearing in Agnes of God, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award, and won a Golden Globe Award for her searing performance. She later appeared in Valmont, Girl in a Swing, and Leaving Normal. Tilly also appeared in Body Snatchers, in which she delivered a pessimistic monologue in the stylings of an alien.
Novels
Tilly has also written a novel entitled Singing Songs, and has a second novel entitled Gemma which came out in October 2006. Gemma is entirely fictional but Tilly has confirmed that Singing Songs is autobiographical.
Personal Life and Relationships
Tilly has three children: Emily (born 1984) and David (born 1986), by her marriage to film producer Tim Zinnemann, which ended in 1989, and a son, Will (born 1990), from her five-year relationship with British actor Colin Firth.
Her second husband was the thirty years older John Calley, a former president of Sony Pictures; they were married in 1995 and divorced in 2002.
Now remarried and living in British Columbia, Tilly has not appeared in a film since 1995, having decided to retire from acting in order to raise her children.
Awards and Nominations
Academy of Science Ficton, Fantasy, and Horror Films, USA
- 1984, Best Actress for Psycho II, (Nomination)
Academy Awards
- 1986, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Agnes of God, (Nomination)
Golden Globe Awards
- 1986, Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Movie for Agnes of God, (won)
Selected filmography
- Journey (1995)
- Trick of the Eye aka Primal Secrets (1994)
- Winnetka Road (1994)
- Sleep With Me (1994)
- Body Snatchers (1993)
- The Two Jakes (1990)
- Valmont (1989)
- Masquerade (1988)
- Agnes of God (1985)
- The Big Chill (1983)
- Psycho II (1983)
- Fame (1980)
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