Meg Tilly Movies and Career Information

Meg Tilly (born February 14, 1960) is a Canadian-American actress, Broadway stage dancer and writer. Tilly, the third of four children, was born Margaret E. Chan in Long Beach, California, the daughter of Patricia Tilly, an Irish and Native American schoolteacher, and Harry Chan, a Chinese American used car salesman. Following her parents' divorce when she was three, she was raised by her mother and stepfather, John Ward, on rural Texada Island in British Columbia, Canada. Tilly graduated from Esquimalt High School in Victoria, British Columbia. She has a brother, Steve, and two sisters, Rebecca, and fellow actress Jennifer (born 1958). As a teen, she was involved with the Connecticut Ballet Company, as well as the Throne Dance Theatre, and made her screen debut with Alan Parker's Fame in 1980. After a serious back injury forced her to stop dancing, she became an actress. She played a prostitute in a second season episode of Hill Street Blues before she appeared in films such as The Big Chill and Psycho II before her acclaimed title role in Agnes of God, for which she received an Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe. Tilly later appeared in Valmont, The Two Jakes with Jack