Geena Davis launches Bentonville Film Festival — thedissolve.com

Geena Davis’ career and life have taken some dramatic and unexpected turns since she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1988’s The Accidental Tourist. Davis made an unexpected and, let’s be honest, not terribly successful transition from quirky, acclaimed dramatic/comic actress to badass action star when she divorced quirky, acclaimed first husband Jeff Goldblum and married The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane director Renny Harlin, who directed her to massive commercial failure in Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight. Davis then decided to give archery a try and began pursuing the sport in earnest in her early 40s, and was gifted and ambitious enough to unsuccessfully try out for the 2000 Summer Olympics team. In the last decade, Davis shifted her emphasis from film to television with lead roles in the short-lived vehicle The Geena Davis Show and the initially buzzed-about but also short-lived Commander In Chief, where she played the first female president of the United States. 

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