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Meg Tilly
Age: 49
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Birth Place: Los Angeles County, California, USA
Born: Feb. 14th, 1960
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BIOGRAPHY: Meg Tilly was set on being a dancer, and at 17 connected to the Connecticut Ballet Company and later Throne Dance Theatre. It was in this capacity that she had her screen debut in Alan Parker (I)'s Fame (1980). Unfortunately, an injury to her back cut short her plans for a dance career, and a small appearance in the TV series "Hill Street Blues" (1981) turned her towards acting (her dancing skills were not all forgotten, as was evident in The Big Chill (1983) and Psycho II (1983)). She received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Agnes of God (1985), and nobody doubted that she was on her ay to stardom. One step on the road to that status was her being cast in Milos Forman's Amadeus (1984) as Constanza, but again her body interfered, and seven weeks into the production with her foot in a cast were more than the producers could accept, and she was replaced. Her "consolation", was a role in Forman's next project Valmont (1989), didn't do her career much good. Since then she has averaged a movie a year, and with the exception of Leaving Normal (1992), none have tapped the enormous reservoir of talent she has.
TRIVIA:
- 1995: Retired from acting and moved to British Columbia, Canada, to devote herself to writing and raising a family.
- Said that her worst film experience was working with 'Anthony Perkins (I)' (qv) in _Psycho II (1983)_ (qv). Her best film experience was working with 'Norman Jewison' (qv), 'Jane Fonda' (qv) and 'Anne Bancroft (I)' (qv) in _Agnes of God (1985)_ (qv). Interestingly, both films resulted in Tilly being nominated for several awards, including a Golden Globe and an Oscar.
- Former daughter-in-law of 'Fred Zinnemann' (qv).
- Relationship with 'Colin Firth' (qv) began while filming 'Milos Forman' (qv)'s _Valmont (1989)_ (qv).
- While filming _One Dark Night (1983)_ (qv), she was incredibly uncomfortable in the actual mausoleum. Her reactions to her surroundings were often genuine. During the scenes where she was hysterical, she actually did throw herself into hysterics and it took her awhile after each take to calm herself down.
- Sister of actress 'Jennifer Tilly' (qv)
- While older sister 'Jennifer Tilly' (qv) has remained mum about the history of childhood sexual abuse in the family recently revealed by Meg (which included her stepfather and one of her mother's boyfriends), youngest sister Becky has corroborated her sister's revelations.
- Children from her marriage to 'Tim Zinnemann' (qv): Emily (b. 1984) and David (b. 1986).
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