Overview
- She won the 1989 Academy Award for best supporting actress for The Accidental Tourist and later earned a best actress nomination for Thelma & Louise.
- A 1995 box-office failure, Cutthroat Island, sharply curtailed her film career and contributed to Carolco Pictures’ insolvency before she rebounded with Stuart Little and TV’s Commander in Chief.
- She founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2007 and received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, with reports differing on whether the honor came in 2019 or 2020.
- She remains active onscreen, with a reported role in the Duffer Brothers’ 2026 Netflix series The Boroughs alongside Bill Pullman, Jena Malone and Alfred Molina.
- Her recent books include the 2022 memoir Dying of Politeness and the 2025 children’s title The Girl Who Was Too Big for the Page, which she also illustrated.