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Metro.co.uk - Found Jun. 2, 2009 Geena Davis wants women to be better represented Geena Davis has called for more women to be represented on children's TV and movies. |
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Huffington Post - Found May. 25, 2009 With the premiere of Accidents Happen, the 51 year old actor Geena Davis steps into the spotlight again, this time by doing a quirky little... |
Geena Davis wants more women on TV
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Grimsby Telegraph - Found Jun. 2, 2009 Geena Davis has called for more women to be represented on children's TV and movies. |
Geena Davis wants more women on TV
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Croydon Advertiser - Found Jun. 2, 2009 Geena Davis has called for more women to be represented on children's TV and movies. |
Geena Davis speaks at Maine college's graduation
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The State - Found Jun. 1, 2009 LEWISTON, Maine -- Actress Geena Davis says it's critical that young people see more women in movies and TV. Addressing Bates College graduates in |
Geena Davis speaks at Maine college's graduation
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Palladium Item - Found Jun. 1, 2009 ... graduates in Lewiston, Maine, Davis says that 'society can only benefit if women are at the table.' The founder of the Geena Davis Institute... |
Geena Davis speaks at Maine college's graduation
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Gadsden Times - Found Jun. 1, 2009 ... at 7:24 a.m. Actress Geena Davis says it's critical that young people see more women in movies and TV. Addressing Bates graduates in Lewiston, ... |
Geena Davis speaks at Maine college's graduation
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StarBanner.com - Found Jun. 1, 2009 LEWISTON, Maine - Actress Geena Davis says it's critical that young people see more women in movies and TV. Addressing Bates College graduates in |
Geena Davis Biography
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Geena Davis
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| Geena Davis | |
 Davis at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival |
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| Born | Virginia Elizabeth Davis January 21, 1956 Wareham, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Actress, Producer, Writer |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Spouse(s) | Richard Emmolo (1982–1983) Jeff Goldblum (1987–1990) Renny Harlin (1993–1998) Reza Jarrahy (2001–) |
Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model and a women's Olympics archery team semi-finalist.1
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Early life
Davis was born in Wareham, Massachusetts, USA, the daughter of Lucille, a teacher's assistant, and William Davis, a civil engineer; she has a brother named Dan.2 At an early age, she became interested in music. She learned piano, flute and drums and played organ well enough as a teenager to serve as an organist at her church in Wareham. Davis attended Wareham High School and while an exchange student in Sandviken, Sweden, she became bilingual; she is fluent in Swedish. Enrolling at New England College, Davis eventually graduated with a bachelor's degree in drama from Boston University in 1979. While at Boston University, Davis worked part time for the Media Group.
Career
After graduating, Davis signed with New York's Zoli modelling agency and served as a window mannequin for Ann Taylor. With a height of six feet and a shoe size of 11 (US), Davis was a striking model cast from a different mold. Davis auditioned for roles in many popular movies, including The Terminator’s Sarah Connor, which went to Linda Hamilton. She was working as a model when director Sydney Pollack spotted her and cast her in Tootsie (1982) as a soap opera actress. She followed this up with roles in the short-lived television series Buffalo Bill (1983–1984) (for which she also wrote an episode); Sara; and a small role in Fletch (1985).
Davis made her film breakthrough with The Fly and Beetlejuice. She received an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Accidental Tourist (1988), and a Best Actress nomination for her role in Thelma and Louise (1991). Davis replaced Debra Winger for the lead in A League of Their Own (1992) and received a Best Actress Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance. She then co-starred in Hero alongside Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia. Following this, Davis teamed up with then-husband Renny Harlin for the films Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight. She and Harlin co-produced the films.
In 2000-2001, Davis starred in the short-lived sitcom The Geena Davis Show. In early 2004, she guest-starred as Grace Adler's sister Janet on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. She most recently starred in the ABC television series Commander in Chief as the first female President of the United States. This role garnered her a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series in 2006, and she also was nominated for an Emmy Award and a SAG Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series.
Personal life
Davis was married to Richard Emmolo (March 25, 1982 – February 26, 1983); actor Jeff Goldblum, with whom she co-starred in three films, Transylvania 6-5000, The Fly and Earth Girls Are Easy (1987 – 1990); and Renny Harlin, who directed her in Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight (1993 – 1998). On September 1, 2001, Davis married Iranian-American Reza Jarrahy. They have three children: daughter Alizeh Keshvar (born April 10, 2002) and fraternal twin boys Kian William Jarrahy and Kaiis Steven Jarrahy on May 6, 2004.
In 1999, Davis was a semi-finalist in trials for the United States' Olympic Archery team. She placed twenty-fourth out of twenty-eight.
Davis is 6 feet (1.83 m) tall and is a member of American Mensa, the society of persons with IQs in the statistical top 2%,3 with an IQ of 140.
Davis was considered for roles in Ghost (1990), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Basic Instinct (1992), My Cousin Vinny (1992), Speed (1994), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), etc.
Activism
Davis is fronting the Women's Sports Foundation campaign Geena Takes Aim in support of Title IX — an Act of Congress focusing on equality in sports opportunities, now expanded to prohibit gender discrimination in United States' educational institutions.
In 2004, while watching children’s television programs and videos with her daughter, Davis noticed what she thought was an imbalance in the ratio of male to female characters. From that starting point, Davis went on to sponsor the largest research project ever undertaken on gender in children’s entertainment (resulting in 4 discrete studies, including one on children’s television) at the Annenberg School for Communication of University of Southern California. The study, directed by Dr. Stacy Smith, shows that there are nearly 3 males to every 1 female character in the nearly 400 G, PG, PG-13, and R-Rated movies the undergraduate team of Annenberg students coded. That research sparked Davis to launch The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2007. The Institute’s first focus is an on-the ground program that works collaboratively with the entertainment industry to dramatically increase the presence of female characters in media aimed at children and to reduce stereotyping of both males and females.
For her work in this field she received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Bates College in May 2009.4
Sports
Geena Davis was one of 300 women competing in July 1999 5 for a semifinals berth in the US Olympic team for archery, to participate in the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. She placed 24th of 300 and did not qualify for the team, but participated as a wild-card entry in the Sydney International Golden Arrow competition.6
Davis states that she wasn't an athlete growing up,7 and that her introduction to the sport was in 1997, two years prior to her tryouts.
Filmography
Television work
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1983-1984 | Buffalo Bill | Wendy Killian | |
| 1983 | Knight Rider | Grace Fallon | Guest star, "K.I.T.T. The Cat" (Season 2, Episode 6) |
| 1984 | Family Ties | Karen Nicholson | Guest star, two episodes |
| 1985 | Sara | Sara McKenna | Cancelled after a few months |
| Secret Weapons | Tamara Reshevsky/Brenda | ||
| Remington Steele | Sandy Dalrymple | "Steele in the Chips" (Season 3, Episode 20) | |
| 2000-2001 | The Geena Davis Show | Teddie Cochran | |
| 2003 | Will & Grace | Grace's Sister | |
| 2005-2006 | Commander in Chief | President Mackenzie Allen | Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Drama Series |
| 2008-present | Link's Future | Mrs. Diane Bolton | Season 3-present |
References
- ^ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/news/1999/08/05/davis_archery_ap/
- ^ Geena Davis biography. Film Reference.com
- ^ "They're Accomplished, They're Famous, and They're MENSANS". Mensa Bulletin (American Mensa) (476): p. 21. July 2004. ISSN 0025-9543.
- ^ http://www.bates.edu/x202708.xml
- ^ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/news/1999/08/05/davis_archery_ap/
- ^ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/archery/news/1999/09/21/davis_archery/
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EEDF1530F935A3575BC0A96F958260
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Geena Davis |
- Geena Davis at the Internet Movie Database
- Geena Davis at TV.com
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