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Remember Kelly McGillis from Top Gun? You won’t recognise her now

Who could forget Maverick’s leading lady? She looks a whole lot different now!

It’s been 30 years since the epic film Top Gun was released, but while you’d still recognise Tom Cruise anywhere, his leading lady is flying much more under the radar.

In fact, you’d probably barely recognise her!

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Kelly McGillis played the flight instructor in the 1986 hit flick who fell in love with cheeky fighter pilot Maverick.

While Cruise was catapulted to super stardom, McGillis has lived a much more low-key life.

The now 58-year-old has ditched the blonde curly locks and embraces her natural shade. After Top Gun, she appeared in dozens of TV shows and movies through the ‘90s but took a break for a few years.

It was then she started doing plays in the theatre. She was married twice and has two daughters Kelsey and Sonora, and in 2009, she announced she was a lesbian.

Kelly now

The next year Kelly went into a civil union with Melanie Leis but they broke up a year later.

She later admitted to have struggled with drugs and alcohol for a time before getting sober.

Kelly now teaches acting at The New York Studio for Stage and Screen in North Carolina, US.

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