- Is also a professional counselor, primarily concerning substance abuse.
- Wanted to play the role of "Kathryn Murphy", the district attorney in The Accused (1988), because she and her roommate were assaulted and raped by two men in their apartment in 1982.
- Owner of restaurant Kelly's Caribbean Bar, Grill and Brewery in Key West, Florida.
- Kelly McGillis actually had to return to employment waiting tables after having been a prominent character in an Oscar nominated film (her first movie, Reuben Reuben).
- Was fired from the film Bachelor Party (1984) allegedly because the producers thought she wasn't pretty or sexy enough.
- Auditioned for the role of Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct (1992).
- Gave birth to her 1st child at age 32, a daughter Kelsey Lauren Tillman on May 24, 1990. Child's father is her 2nd husband, Fred Tillman.
- Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 35, a daughter Sonora Ashley on April 10, 1993. Child's father is her 2nd husband, Fred Tillman.
- On Friday June 17, 2016, Ms. McGillis came home and found a woman named Laurence Marie Dorn had entered her house. Dorn attacked McGillis. Dorn was later arrested by Henderson County Deputies and charged with second degree burglary, misdemeanor larceny, misdemeanor stalking, assault and battery, and interfering with emergency communications. In May 2017, Dorn was found guilty of misdemeanor breaking and entering and sentenced to 18 months of probation.
- Claimed that she was a lonely, overweight adolescent.
- Met former partner Melanie Leis in 2000, while McGillis was still married to her second husband Fred Tillman.
- As of June 2016, now lives in Henderson County, North Carolina.
- In April, 2009 Kelly McGillis confirmed long-held rumors that she's a lesbian, according to an interview on the website shewired.
- She has English, Welsh, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), and German ancestry.
- The New York Times reported that on September 15, 2010, Kelly McGillis and Melanie Leis had a civil union performed in Collingswood, New Jersey, by Judge Robert T. Zane III. Melanie Leis is a sales executive.
- Performing on stage as "Mrs. Robinson" in the national touring company of the play "The Graduate." (March 2004)
- Daughter of Joan, a homemaker, and Donald, a general practitioner of medicine.
- Studied at Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts and Juilliard.
- Touring UK with the stage play "Frankie & Johnny in the Clair De Lune" with Rolf Saxon. (April 2010)
- Sisters: Karen (b. July 1959) and Kathleen (b. August 1961).
- Currently working in The Graduate as Mrs. Robinson on Broadway. (November 2004)
- She lost out on the role of Madame de Tourvel twice. The first time was in 1987 in the stage drama "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" with other American actors Glenn Close and Kevin Spacey, where they would have replaced the acclaimed English cast, but the show closed since producers feared soft box-office because of the cast change. (This was before Close and Spacey became household names.) The second time was in 1988 in the film Dangerous Liaisons (1988) when film critic Pauline Kael talked the film's director Stephen Frears into dropping McGillis in favor of Michelle Pfeiffer, who earned an Academy Award nomination, as did Close who was cast this time, because of her star-making performance in Fatal Attraction (1987).
- Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36.
- He has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Top Gun (1986).
- Collingswood, New Jersey (September 2010)
- Born at 3:47PM (PDT).
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