See the star of "Top Gun" Kelly McGillis now at 64

The actor played the role of Charlie in the successful film of 1986, but you will not see her in the rest of 2022.


The planes, romance and rivalries of piloting schools resumed the big screen in 1986 with the release ofTop gun. In the blockbuster full of action,Kelly McGillis Play Charlie, an aviation instructor and the romantic interest inTom Cruise Maverick. The film attracted McGillis a lot of attention, and his acting career took place regularly until the early 2000s.

Now 64, the actor took a step back from Hollywood many years ago, but came back to the screen on occasion, whenever the role is right. She also worked in other fields and focused on the education of her children. Read the rest to find out more about McGillis Life today and to see what she has to say about not being in theTop gun Continue, which arrives in theaters on May 27.

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It is still an actor but does not work as often as before.

Kelly McGillis and Harrison Ford at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985
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In addition toTop gun, McGillis also caused a sensation in the 80s withWitness,,The accused, andMade in paradise. She continued to play regularly for years, but has slowed down and has started to assume fewer roles around 2000. Some of her recent projects are the 2017 film HallmarkAn unusual grace And the film for life 2018Maternal secrets.

His goal in life has changed.

Kelly McGillis in Cannes, France in 1993
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In a 2019 interview withEntertainment tonight,,McGillis explained The fact that Hollywood's retreat came when she became sober and was "traveling" to understand who she was.

"I think my priorities in life have changed," she said. "It was not like a major decision that I took to leave, it was just that other things became more important. I love acting, I like what I do, I like to do Theater, but I don't know. For me, my relationships with other people have become much more important than my relationship with glory. "

McGillis added: "I really feel blessed not to have to work, you know? But I have the opportunity to work, so I am really blessed in this way. Few people get this option later in life, So I feel very lucky. "

She also took the time to raise her daughters.

Kelly McGillis at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
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McGillis has two daughters,Kelsey, 31 years old, andSonora, 29 years old, with his ex-husbandFred Tillman. She explained toEntertainment tonight that it was also focused on raising them when she withdrew from performance.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"It was very difficult for me to have a sense of self or self-identity or real self-esteem other than what I did in life," she explained. "And that's right - it did not become a priority; what became the priority at the start is to raise my daughters and be the best sober parent I could be."

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She worked as a teacher and in a rehabilitation center.

Kelly McGillis at the 2014 Television Critics Associated Tour
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McGillis was still working Whenever she was not on the screen, just in other regions outside Hollywood.

"I had another job for a while and it works at the Drug and Rehabilitation Center," she told Yahoo! In 2013. "At the moment, I focus on teaching an actor in private in a small studio that goes with a school in Asheville, in North Carolina. I think it's my time to give back and c ' is something I can do. And yes, I live a calm little life. I live in a log cabin at the top of the hill in North Carolina and it's charming. "

She was not invited for theTop gun after.

Kelly McGillis in
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In 2019, roughly when theTop gun after,Top Gun: Maverick, was originally intended to be released, said McGillisEntertainment tonight thatWe didn't ask him back. (TheThe film was delayed by the cocovio-9 pandemic.)

"Oh my God, no," she said when asked if she was invited to come back. "I am old, and I am big who and what I am at my age rather than put a value to all these other things."

She also said that she was not in a hurry to buy a ticket. "I guess it depends on the type of criticism he gets," she said about the film. "I do not run to the theater and I do not run away from the theater to see it. It's just not on my little list of things that I would like to do."

The director of the new film,Joseph Kosinski, said to the initiate ofDecision not to have mcGillis Or another originalTop gunco-starMeg Ryan Come back: "I didn't want each scenario to look back. It was important to present new characters." InMaverick,,Jennifer ConnellyPlays a new romantic interest in the Cruise driver, a bar owner named Penny.

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