She starred on the short-lived Geena Davis Show on ABC in 2000, played the president on the network's Commander in Chief a few years later, made her Grey's Anatomy debut in a talked-about arc in 2014, and shined in season 3 of Netflix's GLOW in 2019. While she fell short of reaching the acclaimed international stage, the actress had more than enough projects to fill her schedule. She spent the '80s picking up gigs on Buffalo Bill, Sara, and Family Ties and winning an Oscar for The Accidental Tourist (1988) before landing her now-famed role as Thelma in 1991's Thelma & Louise.Īfter hanging up her catcher's glove, Davis chased her Olympic dreams in 1999, competing to place on the U.S. Davis played the team's catcher after getting an early start on television. Geena Davis led the baseball comedy as Dottie Hinson, a small-town woman who becomes a big-league star. The decades since have included Oscar-nominated roles in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Cast Away (2000), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), while landing major gigs in Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Just a few years after League, Hanks took home back-to-back Oscars for his starring turns in Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994), and spent 1995 bringing the character of Woody to the big screen in Toy Story and playing Jim Lovell in Apollo 13. The beloved star's career only took off from there. The role gave Hanks the opportunity to drop the unforgettable wisdom that 'There's no crying in baseball,' and led to his famed turn in the following year's Sleepless in Seattle. He took on the part of the Peaches' questionable leader after making appearances in Dragnet (1987), Big (1988), and Joe Versus the Volcano (1990). Early in his film career, Tom Hanks joined A League of Their Own as baseball manager Jimmy Dugan.

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