Don Calame
Who was the spouse of Meg Tilly from 2002 to 2003?
Meg Tilly Meg Tilly ( born Margaret Elizabeth Chan on February 14 , 1960 ) is an American actress . For her role in the 1985 film Agnes of God , she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Her other film roles include Psycho II ( 1983 ) , The Big Chill ( 1983 ) , Masquerade ( 1988 ) , and Valmont ( 1989 ) . For her role in the television series Bomb Girls ( 2012–13 ) , she won the 2013 Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series . Tilly has also written six novels , including Porcupine ( 2007 ) , which was a finalist for the Sheila A . Egoff Childrens Literature Prize . Early life . Tilly is the daughter of Patricia Ann ( née Tilly ) , a Canadian teacher , and businessman Harry Chan . Her father was Chinese American , while her mother was of Irish and Finnish descent . Following her parents divorce when she was three , Tilly was raised by her mother and stepfather , John Ward , on rural Texada Island in British Columbia . She later claimed that Ward was a violent pedophile . At the age of 12 , Tilly started taking dance lessons , in part to avoid her stepfather , and in a few years had developed into a gifted ballerina . Tilly attended Esquimalt High School in Esquimalt , British Columbia , and also Chief Sealth International High School in Seattle , Washington where she is listed among its alumni . After graduating high school , Tilly left home and moved to the United States to pursue a career as a professional dancer . In New York City she studied with Madame Darvash and Melissa Hayden on full scholarship . She joined the Connecticut Ballet Company . She made her screen debut ( somewhat ironically ) as a dancer in Alan Parkers 1980 musical drama Fame , despite the fact that Tillys dance career had been halted in 1979 , when a dance partner dropped her , leading to a serious back injury . Career . Acting . Forced to give up dancing because of complications stemming from her back injury , Tilly moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actress and studied acting under Peggy Feury . She made her television debut in the 1982 half-hour drama The Trouble with Grandpa , co-starring Elisha Cook Jr . After playing a prostitute in a second-season episode of Hill Street Blues , she appeared in her first starring role in the 1982 coming-of-age adventure film Tex with Matt Dillon . In 1983 , after she starred as the lead in the supernatural horror film One Dark Night , she appeared in Psycho II with Anthony Perkins , and Lawrence Kasdans award-winning ensemble film The Big Chill , with Kevin Kline , Glenn Close , Tom Berenger , William Hurt , Jeff Goldblum , JoBeth Williams and Mary Kay Place . Tillys appearance in The Big Chill , which was nominated for three Academy Awards , including Best Picture , helped her career significantly . In 1984 , she starred in the movie Impulse . Tilly was the first choice for the role of Constanze Mozart in Miloš Formans film Amadeus , having received glowing appraisals of her rehearsal work by both her would-be costar Tom Hulce and director Forman . However , she sustained a leg injury playing soccer and had to abandon the project . The role later went to Elizabeth Berridge . In 1985 , Tilly landed the acclaimed title role in Norman Jewisons Agnes of God , appearing with Jane Fonda and Anne Bancroft . Playing the role of a novitiate nun who confesses her involvement in a virgin conception , Tilly delivered a magnificent portrayal of a tormented young woman experiencing the ultimate crisis of faith . Tillys critically praised performance earned her an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award . Tilly later appeared in Valmont ( 1989 ) , The Two Jakes ( 1990 ) with Jack Nicholson and Leaving Normal ( 1992 ) with Christine Lahti , as well as the 1993 horror film Body Snatchers . After this , she stopped acting for the next 15 years . Tilly returned to acting in 2010 , portraying the Blessed Mother , a Pope-like figure in the Caprica episode Unvanquished . In 2011 she played Martha in Edward Albees Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , presented by the Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre in Victoria , B.C . In January 2012 , Global Television in Canada launched the six-part Bomb Girls about women who work in a munitions factory during World War II . Tilly stars as Lorna , the emotionally closed floor matron who blossoms as a leader and an appealing woman . She won the 2013 Lead Actress , Drama Canadian Screen Award for her work on the series . Writing . Tilly is the author of six published novels . In 1994 , Tillys first novel Singing Songs was published by Dutton to generally positive reviews . Donna Rifkind from Publishers Weekly called the book an impressive first novel , and the New York Times Book Review praised Tilly for the remarkable coherence and clarity of Annas narrative voice . The book is about a young girl and her sisters living in the Northwest who are molested by their stepfather . Her second novel Gemma was published in 2006 by the Syren Book Company . and picked up by St . Martins Press in 2010 . The book is about a twelve-year-old girl who is kidnapped and taken on a cross-country journey in which she is physically and sexually abused by her captor . Her third novel Porcupine was published in 2007 by Tundra Books . The book is about a twelve-year-old girl , Jacqueline Jack Cooper , whose life is shattered by the death of her father by friendly fire in the War in Afghanistan . Porcupine was a finalist for the Sheila A . Egoff Childrens Literature Prize , shortlisted for The Canadian Libraries Association Best Childrens Book 2008 , Foreword Magazine Book of the Year and was an Ontario Library Best Bets 2008 . Her fourth novel First Time was published in 2008 by Orca Book Publishers . The novel is about a sixteen-year-old who is molested and physically abused by her mothers boyfriend , and must deal with the trauma alone without the help of her mother or best friend . First Time was a 2009 Golden Eagle Award Nominee , a 2009 YALSA Quick Picks and 2010 CCBC Best Books . Tillys fifth novel A Taste of Heaven was published in 2013 by Puffin Books . A departure from the darker themes of Tillys previous work , the novel is about two young girls who become friends who experience the comical , sometimes bittersweet and melodramatic trials and tribulations of tweenhood . One reviewer wrote , Tilly paints an insightful , memorable portrait of the ups and downs of friendship and the unwavering bonds of family , delving into age-old issues of honesty , trust , and loyalty . A Taste Of Heaven was shortlisted for the 2014 Libris Young Reader Book of the Year , a 2014 Diamond Willow Award and won the 2014/2015 Chocolate Lilly Award . Her latest novel , Behind the Scenes , was published in 2014 by Puffin Books ( Canada ) . Personal life . In 1983 , Tilly married Tim Zinnemann , an American film producer and son of film director Fred Zinnemann . They met on the set of her first film , Tex . The couple had two children , Emily ( born 1984 ) and David ( born 1986 ) . The marriage ended in divorce in 1989 . In 1989 , Tilly began a 5-year relationship with British actor Colin Firth , whom she met during the filming of Valmont . They moved from Los Angeles to a log house on five acres of mountainside property about an hour outside Vancouver near the town of Maple Ridge , British Columbia . Their son , William Will , was born 1990 . In 1995 , Tilly married John Calley , an American film studio executive and producer 30 years her senior . They moved to Los Angeles , where Calley worked as president and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment . The marriage ended in divorce in 2002 . In 2002 , Tilly married her current husband , author Don Calame , who writes fiction for adolescents . They met during a writing seminar in Big Sur , California . The couple now lives in the Gulf Islands , British Columbia . She is the younger sister of actress Jennifer Tilly .