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Who is Geena Davis?

Geena Davis was born Virginia Elizabeth Davis on the 21st January 1956 and is an Oscar and Golden Globe winning actress as well as a former fashion model. Davis was born in Wareham, Massachusetts, USA. The first signs of her interest and skill in the performing arts was as a musician. She played piano, flute and drums. As a teenager she played the organ well enough to be her church organist. Geena graduated with a BA in Drama from Boston University in 1979. She also spent a year in Sweden as an exchange student and came home fluent in Swedish. She has a long list of movie and TV credits, the latest was the TV series, "Commander in Chief" in which she plays the first female president of the Unites States, a role she excelled at and won a Golden Globe for. In 1999 Geena surprised everyone by announcing that she was going to try to make the US Olympic team in archery, she finished twenty fourth of twenty eight finalists, that she even made it to the finals caught everyone by surprise, except her family. She has been married four times, divorced three times and has three children, a daughter and twin sons. Geena is a member of American Mensa, the high IQ society, her IQ is reputedly 140.