Geena Davis

Davis, who won an Oscar for her supporting performance in "The Accidental Tourist" (1988), has been a passionate advocate for gender equality in media. She is the founder and chair of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, a nonprofit dedicated to educating and influencing film and television content creators to eliminate gender bias and stereotypes and create a wide variety of female characters in entertainment and media aimed at children. Davis was appointed Special Envoy for Women and Girls in Information and Communication Technologies for the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union in 2012, and served as chair of the California Commission on the Status of Women. In 2015, she launched the Bentonville Film Festival to support women and diversity in the entertainment industry. As an actor, she is recognized for portraying strong leading roles in such films as "Thelma & Louise" (1991), for which she earned an Oscar nomination, "The Fly" (1986), "Beetlejuice" (1988), "A League of Their Own" (1992) and "The Long Kiss Goodnight" (1996).