Meg Tilly is a Canadian-American actress and writer. For her role in the 1985 film Agnes of God, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film roles include Psycho II, The Big Chill, Masquerade, and Valmont.
Where did Meg Tilly grow up?
Meg Tilly was brought up on the isolated Texada Island in the Strait of Georgia. She began her career as a dancer but switched to film after a back injury. She arrived in New York at age 16 and made her screen debut as a dancer in Fame (1980).
She appeared in the popular Big Chill (1983) as the girlfriend of a dead man whose friends gather for a weekend and received the Golden Globe Award for best supporting actress as well as a supporting actress Oscar nomination for her portrait of a young nun in Norman Jewison’s Agnes of God (1985).
Was Meg Tilly nominated for an Oscar?
For her role in the 1985 film Agnes of God, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.