Screen Legends - An Evening with Geena Davis | How To Academy

Tue, 18 October 2022

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm GMT

Screen Legends – An Evening with Geena Davis

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The two-time Oscar winning actor and advocate joins us to share stories from her incredible life in Hollywood and beyond.

‘I may have wanted to become an actor so fervently because I could use acting to fill out the persona of someone confident in their abilities, someone I desperately wanted to be like in real life.’ – Geena Davis

At the age of three Geena Davis announced to her parents she was going to be an actor.  With a slew of iconic film and television roles now under her belt, as well as numerous awards including two Oscars, she has surpassed her childhood dreams in ways she never could have imagined.

But the path to empowerment never runs smoothly, particularly for someone who remains, at heart, the small-town kid she always was. In this live, on-stage event, Geena will look back at her career playing everything from a soap star in her underwear to a housewife-turned-road warrior, a baseball phenomenon, an amnesiac assassin, the mother of a rodent, the president of the United States, and more.

And, at a time when women’s rights and autonomy are being challenged around the world, she will explore her ground-breaking work advocating for better representation of female characters on screen.

Don’t miss this surprising and touching account of one woman’s journey to fight for herself and ultimately live a bolder, freer, more authentic life.

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Geena Davis

Academy Award Winning Actor

Geena Davis, the two-time Academy Award winning actor, is one of Hollywood’s most respected talents, having appeared in several roles that became cultural landmarks including Muriel Pritchett in The Accidental Tourist, Thelma in Thelma & Louise, and Dottie Hinson in A League of Their Own.  She is also a world-class athlete, a member of the genius society Mensa, and is now recognised for her tireless advocacy for women and girls as Founder and Chair of the non-profit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which engages film and television creators to dramatically increase the percentage of female characters, and reduce gender stereotyping, in media made for children.

Hannah MacInnes

Journalist and Broadcaster

Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster and journalist. Alongside hosting How To Academy’s live programmes and podcast, she presents a cultural show on Times Radio and interviews on-stage at a number of other major literary events. She is the host of The Klosters Forum Podcast series and has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for 8 years at BBC Newsnight, as Planning Editor and as a Producer / Filmmaker.