Tall, slender and as beautiful as she is talented, energetic Geena Davis moves through her roles with the incongruous awkwardness, and grace of a thoroughbred colt. She specializes in playing slightly off-kilter or unusual characters light dramas, romances and comedies, but she has done everything from sci-fi to horror to action-adventure. In childhood, Davis dreamed of becoming an actor and following high school enrolled in New England College and then transferred to Boston University to become a drama major. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1979 and then moved to New York city where she worked a few odd jobs, including working as a department store mannequin. It was at that job, the six-foot tall Davis was spotted and signed to a modelling contract with the Zoli Agents. With Zoli, Davis worked as a lingerie model for Victoria's Secret. She made her acting debut in the television sitcom Buffalo Bill (1982), and also wrote one episode of the show. She later had a recurring role on the hit situation comedy Family Ties (1982-1989) playing a maid to budding entrepreneur Alex Keaton (Michael J. Fox). Davis made her first feature film appearance playing a small role in Tootsie (1982). In 1985, Davis headlined Sara, a short-lived situation comedy on NBC in which she played an independent, single lawyer trying to get by in San Francisco. That same year, Davis co-starred with Jeff Goldblum in the vampire spoof Transylvania 6-5000. She and Goldblum (whom she later married) were reteamed in David Cronenberg's creepy but moving remake of The Fly in 1986. The film was a success and Davis was set on the road to stardom. In 1987, she gained further notice for her off-beat portrayal of a dead yuppie housewife trying to adjust to life in the 'neitherworld' in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice. The following year she won a "Best Supporting Actress" Oscar for The Accidental Tourist. Once again, she played opposite Goldblum in the sci-fi musical comedy Earth Girls Are Easy (1989). Her take on a naive, oppressed housewife who leaves her husband to embark upon a wild-ride across America with her best friend in Ridley Scott's Thelma and Louise (1991) earned her an Oscar nomination and made her a cult figure among feminist fans. After that, her film career took off, but she was still cast in ensemble pieces, Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own (1982), or in co-leads, Speechless (1994), until she finally had a bonafide starring role playing a working-class single mother from Brooklyn in Martha Coolidge's serio-comedy Angie (1994). She married her second husband Renny Harlin in 1993 and he directed her in the old-fashioned pirate adventure Cutthroat Island (1995) as well as in the action thriller The Long Kiss Good Night (1996).