Meg TillyFilmography

Born:: February 14, 1960 in Long Beach, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Meg Tilly has always been close-mouthed about the date and place of her birth; raised in British Columbia, she aspired to be a dancer, but a serious back injury put an end to this dream. Even so, she made her first film appearance in a bit part as an auditioning dancer in Fame (1980). For the next...Read More

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Journey

Synopsis: Jason Robards and Meg Tilly star in this acclaimed made-for-TV family drama in which an 11-year-old farm boy named Journey comes to live with his crusty grandfather after his mother leaves. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
Sleep with Me

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Meg Tilly, Craig Sheffer, Todd Field, Susan Traylor

Synopsis: Six screenwriters, all real-life friends, each wrote one of the sequences in this romantic comedy-drama that unfolds at a half-dozen parties and celebrations. During a cross-country trip, Joe (Eric Stoltz) proposes to his girlfriend Sarah (Meg Tilly) with his best friend Frank (Craig Sheffer) Read More

1994
Trick of the Eye

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Meg Tilly, Barnard Hughes, Paxton Whitehead

Synopsis: Contracted to paint a ballroom to memorialize a young woman's tragic death, an artist starts discovering little tidbits that lead her to believe that the death was no accident. Jane Stanton Hitchcock penned the novel on which this drama is based. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Fallen Angels, Vol. 2

Synopsis: The second volume in this film noir style TV-anthology series, this collection of short stories revolves around the dark world of detectives and police officers. Called to look into a murder, an investigator (Gary Oldman) discovers that the victim of the crime is none other than his estranged wife Read More

1993
Body Snatchers

Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, Terry Kinney, Billy Wirth, Meg Tilly, Forest Whitaker

Synopsis: Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers is the third screen version of Jack Finney's cold war science fiction novel Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Marty Malone (Gabrielle Anwar) is moving with her father, stepmother, and stepbrother to a military base where her father will investigate possible Read More

1993
Leaving Normal

Actors: Christine Lahti, Meg Tilly, Lenny Von Dohlen, Patrika Darbo, James Gammon, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: Meg Tilly and Christine Lahti star in this female buddy story that recalls the earlier Thelma and Louise. Marianne (Meg Tilly) is a quiet waif who has just walked out on her abusive husband. Darly (Christine Lahti) is a brassy waitress who was a ballsy stripper using the stage name Pillow Talk. Read More

4/29/92
The Two Jakes

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The Two Jakes is the much-delayed and rather convoluted sequel to the 1975 classic Chinatown. Released in 1990 after an abortive stab at shooting that began in the mid-'80s, the film was the subject of a creative feud between its principals, star Jack Nicholson, producer Robert Evans, and Read More

8/10/90
In the Best Interest of the Child

Actors: Meg Tilly, Ed Begley, Jr., Michael O'Keefe, Michele Greene, Marta Woodward

Synopsis: In the Best Interest of the Child was not based on a true story. That's the official line adopted by producer Robert A. Papazian, even though the plot of this made-for-TV movie would seem to be inspired by the exploits of the real-life Dr. Elizabeth Morgan. True or no, there's plenty of Read More

1990
Valmont

Actors: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Sian Phillips

Synopsis: The third adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic novel Les Liasons Dangereuses, Milos Forman's Valmont was released one year after Stephen Frears' more famous version of the de Laclos original, Dangerous Liaisons. The plot remains the same: two debauched, depraved 18th century French Read More

11/17/89
The Girl in a Swing

Actors: Meg Tilly, Rupert Frazer, Nicholas LePrevost, Elspet Gray, Lorna Heilbron

Synopsis: The Girl on a Swing, a haunting, mystery thriller with a supernatural twist, is the story of a desperate woman, who will do anything to be with the man she loves. Karin Foster (Meg Tilly), a lonely German secretary, falls in love with and marries Alan (Rupert Frazier) and moves with him to Read More

9/29/89
Carmilla

Actors: Meg Tilly

Synopsis: Sheridan Le Fanu's erotic horror tale -- the inspiration for Hammer Films' bosom-heaving "Karnstein Trilogy" and Roger Vadim's Blood and Roses -- is given a bit of whitewash in this tepid episode of Shelley Duvall's made-for-cable "Nightmare Classics" series. Inexplicably relocated to the American Read More

1989
Masquerade

Actors: Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly, Doug Savant, Kim Cattrall, John Glover

Synopsis: American-born French film director Bob Swaim directed this sordid tale of greed, deception, machinations and murder. The darkly beautiful Meg Tilly stars as Olivia Lawrence, member of the Hamptons social elite and heiress to a vast fortune, who becomes attracted to dangerous newcomer Tim Whalen (Rob Lowe Read More

3/11/88
Off Beat

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Harvey Keitel, Cleavant Derricks, Joe Mantegna, Jacques D'Amboise

Synopsis: In this charming comedy that lives up to its title, Judge Reinhold stars as Joe Gower, a librarian's assistant posing as a police officer and trying to win the heart of a beautiful police officer, Rachel Wareham (Meg Tilly). A complex chain of events is put in place when Joe agrees to help out a Read More

4/11/86
Agnes of God

Actors: Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly, Anne Pitoniak, Winston Rekert

Synopsis: Agnes of God is an "opened up" adaptation of the minimalist stage play by John Pielmeier. Meg Tilly plays a young nun who secretly gives birth to a baby; the child's body is later found strangled to death. Court-appointed psychiatrist Jane Fonda is sent to the convent to investigate, a task made Read More

1985
Impulse

Actors: Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly, Hume Cronyn, John Karlen, Bill Paxton

Synopsis: Bad behavior turns deadly in this science-fiction drama. Jennifer (Meg Tilly) is a woman who grew up in the small town of Sutcliffe, which much of her family still calls home. One day, Sutcliffe is hit with a minor earthquake, which doesn't appear to do much damage, but a strange and disquieting Read More

1984
Psycho II

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz

Synopsis: A sequel to one of the most popular horror films of all time, this psychological thriller received a pleasantly surprised, positive critical reception. Anthony Perkins returns as Norman Bates, who has just been released from an insane asylum after 22 years, having been judged clinically sane by Read More

1983
The Big Chill

Actors: Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, JoBeth Williams, Tom Berenger, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly

Synopsis: Embraced by the Baby Boomer generation and spawning countless imitators, the sophomore film of writer-director Lawrence Kasdan was a successful comedy-drama with a best selling soundtrack of Motown hits. Kevin Kline and Glenn Close star as Harold and Sarah Cooper, a couple whose marital troubles Read More

1983
One Dark Night

Actors: Meg Tilly, Robin Evans, Leslie Speights, Elizabeth Daily, Adam West

Synopsis: In this spooky horror outing aimed at teen audiences, the innocent new girl in town tries to become friends with a rough but cool crowd. They are all pretty mean, especially the young woman who is mad that the girl stole her boyfriend, and they decide that the girl must survive an ordeal before Read More

1982
Tex

Actors: Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly, Bill McKinney, Frances Lee McCain

Synopsis: Tex represented the first film adaption of a novel by "teen angst" specialist S. E. Hinton. Matt Dillon stars as Tex McCormick, an Oklahoma farm boy who drifts into bad company and a dangerous lifestyle after his mother dies and his father deserts him. His older brother Mason (Jim Metzler) Read More

1982
Fame

Actors: Irene Cara, Paul McCrane, Barry Miller, Gene Anthony Ray, Lee Curreri

Synopsis: Fame is set at New York's High School of Performing Arts, where talented teens train for show-business careers. The film concentrates on five of the most gifted students: singer Irene Cara, actors Paul McCrane and Barry Miller, dancer Gene Anthony Ray, and musician Lee Currieri. More so than the Read More

1980