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Geena Davis

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Biography

Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an American actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and a women's Olympics archery team semi-finalist. She is known for her roles in The Fly, Beetlejuice, Thelma & Louise, A League of Their Own, and The Accidental Tourist, for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2005, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her role in Commander in Chief.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Fly

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Thelma & Louise

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Tootsie

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Wrong Girls

As Dr. Chapman

Blink Twice

As Stacy

Beetlejuice

As Barbara

Ava

As Bobbi

The Long Kiss Goodnight

As Samantha Caine / Charly Baltimore

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Double Trouble

From the Academy's rare double nods to the performances that earned them, this chain celebrates actors who competed against themselves in a single awards season...

8 films

The Body's Unmaking

From Cronenberg's flesh to Claire Denis's restless bodies, these eight films chart a cinema of transformation that questions where the self ends and the body be...

8 films

Metamorphosis: Bodies in Flux

From Kafka's insect to Cronenberg's flesh, a journey through cinema's most profound transformations, where identity itself is the shape-shifter.

7 films

No Map. No Plan. Just Go

From American Honey to Nomadland, a journey through films where the open road promises freedom, and sometimes delivers it.

8 films

The Open Road Reclaimed - Women Who Drive Away

From the dust of the American West to the neon of Tokyo, these eight films trace a lineage of women who take to the road not to flee, but to find themselves.

5 films

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