On July 9, 1957, stage actress Kelly Ann McGillis was born in the US. For her roles as Rachel Lapp in Witness (1985), Charlie in Top Gun (1986), Made in Heaven (1987), The House on Carroll Street (1988), and Kathryn Murphy in The Accused (1988), she received nominations for the Golden Globe and the BAFTA (1988).
In her later acting career, she appeared in horror films such as Stake Land (2010), The Innkeepers (2011), and We Are What We Are (2013).
On July 9, 1957, in the exclusive southern California community of Newport Beach, Virginia Joan (née Snell), a homemaker, and Donald Manson McGillis, a doctor, welcomed their three daughters, with McGillis being the oldest.
In addition to her Scots-Irish paternal background and Welsh descent, her mother’s lineage is German.
Where did Kelly McGillis go to college and high school? Did Kelly McGillis go to film school?
Newport Harbor High School was Kelly McGillis’ high school. McGillis was born and raised in Los Angeles and studied at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California’s Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts.
She traveled to New York City to pursue acting at the Juilliard School after quitting high school in 1975, graduating in 1983 with Group 12 after obtaining her GED.
