McGillis Pregnancy Ends Folger Stint

WASHINGTON — Kelly McGillis, the Hollywood actress who made a year’s commitment to the Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger, will leave the company at the end of next week because she’s expecting a baby.

McGillis, who is two months’ pregnant, has been advised by doctors not to work during her term. Taking a hiatus from her film career, she is now starring in the theater’s sold-out production of “Twelfth Night,” which has garnered rave reviews. McGillis had signed a “seasonal” contract with the theater through June, but has been released from it.

McGillis, who married yacht broker Fred Tillman last year, declined to comment on possible medical complications.

McGillis will finish the run of “Twelfth Night”--it closes Nov. 19--and then will return to Los Angeles in December. After she has her child in June, she expects to begin work as producer of a film version of the feminist classic “The Awakening,” by Kate Chopin, for Turner Network Television.