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Kelly Ann McGillis (born July 9, 1957) is an American actress. She is known for her film roles such as Rachel Lapp in Witness (1985), for which she received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations; Charlie in Top Gun (1986); Made in Heaven (1987); The House on Carroll Street (1988); and as Katheryn Murphy in The Accused (1988). [4]
Kelly McGillis. Actress: Top Gun. Kelly Ann McGillis was born in Newport Beach, California, to Virginia Joan (Snell), a homemaker, and Donald Manson McGillis, a general practitioner of medicine. She has English, Welsh, Scots-Irish, and German ancestry.
May 16, 2022 · Kelly McGillis played love interest Charlie in the original "Top Gun." Find out about her life today and why she's not in the new sequel.
May 31, 2022 · Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer returned to the Navy for Top Gun: Maverick, but one familiar face missing from the sequel is Kelly McGillis, who played Cruise’s love interest in the 1986 original.
Oct 24, 2023 · Fans of the original Top Gun might be wondering what happened to Kelly McGillis, especially since she didn't return for the blockbuster sequel, 2022's Top Gun: Maverick. Although McGillis continued to nab parts in big-name Hollywood films post- Top Gun, nothing quite topped her back-to-back successes in the mid-80s.
Jan 26, 2023 · The 1986 release of Top Gun placed actress Kelly McGillis firmly in the '80s the pop culture zeitgeist. Her role as Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwood, the astrophysicist and civilian instructor at...
Oct 30, 2023 · Kelly McGillis may have taken some breaks from film, the medium for which she is best known because Top Gun and Witness were such huge hits, but despite whatever happened onscreen, her...
May 13, 2016 · Growing up in Newport Beach, California, Kelly McGillis, now 58, didn’t really think about danger. Two years after she moved to New York to study acting at the prestigious school Juilliard, she...
Jan 26, 2024 · Kelly McGillis was a prominent actor in the original Top Gun film, so why isn't Charlie Blackwell in Joseph Kosinski's Top Gun: Maverick?
Dec 18, 2022 · But Kelly McGillis was one star mysteriously missing from the original Top Gun lineup. Kelly McGillis then. Starring opposite Cruise, McGillis played Charlotte' Charlie' Blackwood, Maverick's love interest and a resilient instructor at the elite Navy fighter school TopGun.
