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Get help. Wealthy Persons. Geena Davis. Her role in the film earned her several awards and award nominations. In she played the role of Eleanor in the award-winning family comedy Stuart Little.
She retained her role as Mrs. Between and , Davis starred in 22 episodes of the Geena Davis Show. She portrayed her role in the television series as the first American president. This role earned her the Golden Globe Award for the best performance of an actress in a television series. Geena Davis is quite a tall woman, she is 6ft 0in 1,83 m tall. One more reason why she was able to play basketball in high school. Because of her amazing height, she was also considered for a job as a model, which she did after she graduated from college.
Her last marriage seemed like her last bus stop, as she gave birth to three children in a marriage that lasted 17 years, but like her other three marriages, it failed. She lived in four different marriages and was divorced equally on each of these occasions. In , while watching children's television programs and videos with her daughter, Davis noticed an imbalance in the ratio of male to female characters.
Davis went on to sponsor the largest research project ever undertaken on gender in children's entertainment resulting in four discrete studies, including one on children's television at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. The study, directed by Stacy Smith, showed that there were nearly three males to every one female character in the nearly G, PG, PG, and R-Rated movies the undergraduate team of Annenberg students analyzed.
In , 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. While this role garnered her a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series in , the series was cancelled after its first season; Davis admitted she was "devastated" by its cancellation in a interview.
I really wanted it to work. It was on Tuesday nights opposite House, which wasn't ideal. But we were the best new show that fall. Then, in January, we were opposite American Idol. They said, 'The ratings are going to suffer, so we should take you off the air for the entire run of Idol, and bring it back in May. I put a lot of time and effort into getting it on another network, too, but it didn't work". She was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award. Davis starred as the adoptive mother of the titular character in the Stuart Little franchise — and as the first female president of the United States in the television series Commander in Chief — , winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress — Television Series Drama for her role in the latter.
Her later films include Accidents Happen and Marjorie Prime She has portrayed the recurring role of Dr. In July , Davis was one of women who vied for a semifinals berth in the U.
Olympic archery team to participate in the Sydney Summer Olympics. She placed 24th and did not qualify for the team, but participated as a wild-card entry in the Sydney International Golden Arrow competition.
In August Davis stated that she was not an athlete growing up and that her introduction to archery was in , two years before her tryouts.
Davis teamed up with her then-husband, director Renny Harlin, for the films Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight , with Harlin hoping that they would turn her into an action star.
While The Long Kiss Goodnight managed to become a moderate success, Cutthroat Island flopped critically and commercially and was once listed as having the "largest box office loss" by Guinness World Records.
The film is credited to be a contributing factor in the demise of Davis as a bankable star. She divorced Harlin in and took an "unusually long" two years off to reflect on her career, according to The New York Times. In 's Angie, Davis played an office worker who lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn and dreams of a better life.
The film received mixed reviews from critics, who felt she could have been better in this movie or another set in Brooklyn, and was a commercial failure. In her other release, Speechless, Davis reunited with Michael Keaton to play insomniac writers who fall in love until they realize that both are writing speeches for rival candidates in a New Mexico election.
Despite negative reviews and modest box office returns, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress — Musical or Comedy for her performance. It reached number one on the box-office, became the tenth highest-grossing film of the year in North America, and earned her a Best Actress Golden Globe Award nomination. She played a television reporter in the comedy Hero also , alongside Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia.
While the film flopped at the box office, Roger Ebert felt that Davis was "bright and convincing as the reporter her best line, after surviving the plane crash, is shouted through an ambulance door: "This is my story!
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