It was announced that Davis had been cast in the action movie The Kellys, alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Liam Hemsworth
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Geena Davis
Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis is an American actor. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
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Born 21 January 1956 · Q280098
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2026· 5 entries
Public attention spiked: 33,576 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.6× the usual 7,269, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Reverted 1 edit by ~2026-19031-51 (talk): Unsourced
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Public attention spiked: 33,784 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.6× the usual 7,269, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 54,054 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.4× the usual 7,269, with 10 article edits. Editors noted: Early life and education
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Starred in the Netflix sci-fi series The Boroughs
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2025· 1 entry
Penguin Books published The Girl Who Was Too Big for the Page, a children's picture book written and illustrated by Davis
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2022· 2 entries
Davis' likeness was used for the character of Poison Ivy in the DC Entertainment comic book series Batman '89, set between the events of Batman Returns (1992) and The Flash (2023)
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Davis told People that her relationship with him "was a magical chapter in my life" and that she liked being wed to a fellow actor because he understood what she was going through and "was not in competition" with her
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (2019).
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Joined the voice cast of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power as Huntara, and executive produced CBS educational show Mission Unstoppable through her organization
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2018· 1 entry
Davis returned to Grey's Anatomy, reprising the role of Dr
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2017· 1 entry
Davis starred in the film adaptation Marjorie Prime, alongside Jon Hamm, playing the daughter of an 85-year old experiencing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, and appeared as the imaginary god of a heavyset 13-y
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2015· 3 entries
And executive produced the documentary This Changes Everything in 2018
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Davis launched an annual film festival to be held in Bentonville, Arkansas, to highlight diversity in film, accepting films that prominently feature minorities and women in the cast and crew
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And Disney World in 2011, 2012, and 2019
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2014· 1 entry
Davis provided her voice for the English version of the Studio Ghibli animated film When Marnie Was There, as she was drawn to the film's abundant stories and strong use of female characters
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2012· 1 entry
Starred as a psychiatrist in Coma, a miniseries based on the 1977 novel Coma by Robin Cook and the subsequent 1978 film
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2011· 1 entry
Davis became one of a few celebrities attached to USAID and Ad Council's FWD campaign, an awareness initiative tied to that year's East Africa drought
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded Lucy Award (2006).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for Commander in Chief (2006).
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The series was canceled after its first season; Davis admitted she was "devastated" by its cancellation in a 2016 interview
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2005· 2 entries
Davis teamed up with the non-profit group Dads and Daughters to launch a venture dedicated to balancing the number of male and female characters in children's television and movie programming
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In 2005, Davis teamed up with the non-profit group Dads and Daughters to launch a venture dedicated to balancing the number of male and female characters in children's television and movie programming.
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2004· 4 entries
Davis launched the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media (now the Geena Davis Institute), which works collaboratively with the entertainment industry to increase the presence of female characters in media
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Davis launched the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2004.
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In 2004, while watching children's television programs and videos with her daughter, Davis noticed an imbalance in the ratio of male to female characters.
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While watching children's television programs and videos with her daughter, Davis noticed an imbalance in the ratio of male to female characters
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1998· 2 entries
And took an "unusually long" two years off to reflect on her career, according to The New York Times
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Davis began dating Iranian American Reza Jarrahy, a craniofacial plastic surgeon, and they allegedly married on September 1, 2001
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1997· 2 entries
A day after her personal assistant Tiffany Bowne gave birth to a son fathered by Harlin
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Produced by Disney, but the project was scrapped very early on
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1996· 1 entry
“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.”
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “Princess Scargo & The Birthday Pumpkin”.
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1992· 1 entry
Davis starred alongside Madonna and Tom Hanks in the sports comedy-drama A League of Their Own as a baseball player on an all-women's team
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1990· 1 entry
“was a magical chapter in my life”
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Accidental Tourist (1989).
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1987· 2 entries
And appeared together in two other films: The Fly and Earth Girls Are Easy
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Appeared with Goldblum again in the offbeat comedy Earth Girls Are Easy
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1985· 1 entry
Met her second husband, actor Jeff Goldblum, on the set of Transylvania 6-5000
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1981· 1 entry
Separated in February 1983, and divorced on June 27, 1984
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1956· 1 entry
Born 1956-01-21.
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