Meg Tilly was set on being a dancer, and at 17 connected to the Connecticut Ballet Company and later Throne Dance Theatre. It was in this capacity that she had her screen debut in Alan Parker's Fame. Unfortunately, an injury to her back cut short her plans for a dance career, and a small appearance in the TV series Hill Street Blues turned her towards acting (her dancing skills were not all forgotten, as was evident in The Big Chill and Psycho II). She received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Agnes of God, and nobody doubted that she was on her ay to stardom. One step on the road to that status was her being cast in Milos Forman's Amadeus as Constanza, but again her body interfered, and seven weeks into the production with her foot in a cast were more than the producers could accept, and she was replaced. Her "consolation", was a role in Forman's next project Valmont, didn't do her career much good. Since then she has averaged a movie a year, and with the exception of Leaving Normal, none have tapped the enormous reservoir of talent she has.
Son, with Colin Firth, William (b. 1990). Sister of actress Jennifer Tilly Was originally cast as Mozart's wife in Amadeus, but had to leave after tearing a ligament in her leg during a soccer game with her children one day before her shooting started. Relationship with Colin Firth began while filming Milos Forman's Valmont. In high school, everyone called Jennifer, Meg, and their younger sister Becky the Three Musketeers. Is 1/2 Caucasian and 1/2 Chinese. Retired in 1995 and moved to British Columbia to devote herself to writing and raising a family. Her first fiction novel was "Singing Songs" (1994; Dutton Books) based on memories of her own childhood. Her second novel "Gemma" (2006; Syren Book Company), is a graphic, disturbing tale about child sexual abuse, which has prompted her to recently reveal her own true-life sexual abuse as a youngster growing up. While older sister Jennifer Tilly has remained mum about the history of childhood sexual abuse in the family recently revealed by Meg (which included her stepfather and one of her mother's boyfriends), youngest sister Becky has corroborated her sister's revelations.