Top Gun's Kelly McGillis Marries Longtime Girlfriend in Civil Union

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The couple at their civil union ceremony.
By PAULA SCHWARTZ
Published: September 15, 2010

Kelly McGillis, the actress, and Melanie Leis, a sales executive, were joined in a civil union on Wednesday morning in Collingswood, N.J. Judge Robert T. Zane III, the municipal presiding judge for Camden County, N.J., officiated at the Collingswood Municipal Court.

Ms. McGillis, 53, starred in “Top Gun” (1986) and “Witness” (1985) and had a role in “The Accused” (1988). In recent years, Ms. McGillis, a Juilliard graduate, has appeared on stage, including the title role in the Roundabout Theater production of “Hedda Gabler” in 1994, and on television, including two 2008 episodes of “The L Word” on Showtime.

Ms. Leis, 42, is a regional sales executive in Philadelphia with Independence Communications, which provides Muzak to businesses. She is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music.

She and Ms. McGillis, whose two previous marriages ended in divorce, met in 2000, when Ms. Leis was a bartender at a restaurant in Key West, Fla., that Ms. McGillis owned with her second husband, Fred Tillman, with whom she has two daughters, Kelsey Laure, 20, and Sonora Ashley, 17.


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[HockeyMom]

1. Best of luck to them both

May they find the happiness they couldn't achieve before.

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2. even if they helped bring musak to the world

seriously I wish them all the best.

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8. i'm sure some juliard professors are doing the facepalm thing about that!

"the gay marriage/civil union thing we're totally cool with. but musak! ugh! where did we go wrong?!"

[Oceansaway]

3. wooooohoooooo !!...nt

[xchrom]

4. Awesome! Nt

[dickthegrouch]

5. One friend of mine will have a hard time with this :)

He's gay and thought Kelly was the only woman he'd ever want if he were to go straight :evilgrin:

Best wishes to the Happy Couple.

[Kolesar]

6. That scene with McGillis dancing w/ Harrison Ford to the soul music coming out of his VW in Witness

sweet

[dmr]

7. Congratulations Kelly & Melanie

I love love stories. May they forever be happy together.
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