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ACTOR

Geena Davis

Known for
Ava (2020), Stuart Little 2 (2002), Cutthroat Island (1995), Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)

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Geena Davis is an actor best known for Ava, Stuart Little 2 and Cutthroat Island.

Geena Davis' Husband and Children: 8 Family Facts

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    Geena Davis speaks fluent Swedish because she attended an exchange school in Sweden in her youth.

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    Geena Davis filed legal papers seeking the dismissal of Dr. Reza Jarrahy's divorce petition on the grounds that they never married. Although Davis and Jarrahy presented themselves as husband and wife for 17 years, Jarrahy says they made a deliberate decision not to apply for a marriage license, though he did not say why. As a result, the marriage never took place. She says Jarrahy knew full well on the day of the wedding ceremony that it was not a real wedding.

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    After graduating from Boston University, Geena Davis worked as a window mannequin.

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    Her second husband, actor Jeff Goldblum, says that he and Geena Davis have remained good friends in the years since their divorce. In 2024 the former couple delighted fans by attending the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2024) together.

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    Geena Davis said Accidents Happen (2009) was the most fun film she has ever made, and that her co-stars and on-screen sons Harry Cook and Harrison Sloan Gilbertson closely resemble her real-life twins, and that she felt a wonderful friendship and bond with both of them.

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    Geena Davis met her first husband, Manhattan restaurateur Richard Emmolo, in December 1978 while she was working at Ann Taylor. They began living together a month later.

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    Geena Davis was born to construction engineer and church pastor William Frank Davis (1913-2009) and former teaching assistant Lucille Martha Cook (1919-2001). Geena has a brother, Danforth (b. 1953), a Las Vegas-based geotechnical engineer. Her parents also had a son, Joel Henry, who was stillborn in 1958.

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    On April 10, 2002, Geena Davis gave birth to a daughter named Alizeh Keshvar Davis Jarrahy in Los Angeles.

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