Kelly Ann McGillis is an American stage 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 Kathryn Murphy in The Accused (1988). In her later career, she starred in horror films such as Stake Land (2010), The Innkeepers (2011), and We Are What We Are (2013).
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McGillis was born on July 9, 1957, in the southern California suburb of Newport Beach, the eldest of three daughters born to Virginia Joan, a homemaker, and Donald Manson McGillis, a physician. Her paternal ancestry is Scots-Irish, and her maternal ancestry is German; she also has Welsh ancestry. She attended Newport Harbor High School.
McGillis was raised in Los Angeles and attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California. After getting her GED after dropping out of high school in 1975, she moved to New York City to study acting at the Juilliard School, where she graduated in 1983, Group 12.
