"Top Gun" star Kelly McGillis has married her longterm partner in a civil ceremony, just one year after admitting she is a lesbian.

The actress, who played Tom Cruise's love interest in the hit 1986 movie, came out last year and went public with her love for sales executive Melanie Leis.

The couple met in 2000, when the actress hired Leis as a bartender at her Florida restaurant, and the pair exchanged vows in a small courthouse ceremony in New Jersey on Wednesday.

It was 53-year-old McGillis' third walk down the aisle - she was married twice before and has two daughters with her second husband Fred Tillman.