Meg Tilly

Meg Tilly
Tilly at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Margaret Elizabeth Chan (1960-02-14) February 14, 1960 (age 57) Long Beach, California, U.S.
Residence	Toronto, Canada
Occupation	Actress, novelist
Years active	1980–95, 2010–present (acting) 1994–present (writing)
Spouse(s)	Tim Zinnemann (m. 1983–89) John Calley (m. 1995–2002) Don Calame (m. 2002)
Partner(s)	Colin Firth (1989–1994)
Children	Emily (b. 1984) David (b. 1986) Will (b. 1990)
Website	www.officialmegtilly.com

Meg Tilly (born Margaret Elizabeth Chan; February 14, 1960) is a Canadian-American actress and novelist.

For her role in the 1985 film Agnes of God, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film roles include Psycho II (1983), The Big Chill (1983), Masquerade (1988), and Valmont (1989). For her role in the television series Bomb Girls (2012–13), she won the 2013 Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

Tilly has also written six novels, including Porcupine (2007), which was a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize. She is the younger sister of actress Jennifer Tilly.

Tilly was born in Long Beach, California, the daughter of Patricia Ann (née Tilly), a Canadian teacher, and businessman Harry Chan. Her father was Cantonese American, and her mother was of Irish, Finnish descent.

Following her parents' divorce when she was three, Tilly was raised by her mother and stepfather, John Ward, on rural Texada Island in British Columbia. She later claimed that Ward was a violent pedophile. At the age of 12, Tilly started taking dance lessons, in part to avoid her stepfather, and in a few years had developed into a gifted ballerina.

After graduating from Esquimalt High School in Esquimalt, British Columbia, Tilly left home and moved to the United States to pursue a career as a professional dancer. In New York City she studied with Madame Darvash and Melissa Hayden on full scholarship. She joined the Connecticut Ballet Company. She made her screen debut as a dancer in Alan Parker's 1980 musical drama Fame. Tilly's dance career came to an abrupt halt when, in 1979, a dance partner dropped her, causing a serious back injury.