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 Kathleen Turner was born June 19, 1954 in Springfield, Missouri, to Patsy (Magee) and Allen Richard Turner, a U.S. Foreign Service officer. She graduated from American School in London in 1972. After the death of her father, the Turner family moved back to the United States where Kathleen later enrolled at Missouri State University for two years, and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 1977. Kathleen made her film debut in Body Heat (1981), her role as the relentless Matty Waker brought her astronomical success, and is remembered as one of the sexiest roles in film history. After her initial success, Kathleen continued to flourish with performances in The Man with Two Brains (1983), Romancing the Stone (1984), The Jewel of the Nile (1985), Prizzi's Honor (1985), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), The War of the Roses (1989), and Serial Mom (1994).
Bio:
Kathleen Turner was born June 19, 1954 in Springfield, Missouri, to Patsy (Magee) and Allen Richard Turner, a U.S. Foreign Service officer. She graduated from American School in London in 1972. After the death of her father, the Turner family moved back to the United States where Kathleen later enrolled at Missouri State University for two years, and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 1977. Kathleen made her film debut in Body Heat (1981), her role as the relentless Matty Waker brought her astronomical success, and is remembered as one of the sexiest roles in film history. After her initial success, Kathleen continued to flourish with performances in The Man with Two Brains (1983), Romancing the Stone (1984), The Jewel of the Nile (1985), Prizzi's Honor (1985), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), The War of the Roses (1989), and Serial Mom (1994).
Tivia:
Spoke the voice (uncredited) of sexy Jessica Rabbit in the toon-noir Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).Was 9 months pregnant with her daughter Rachel Ann Weiss when she completed recording Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988); she actually went into labor on the final day of recording.In the early 1990s, as Rheumatoid Arthritis began impacting her acting career and her personal life in a significant way, she also began to see a decline in the number of acting roles she was being offered. When the diagnosis was finally made in 1992, she had already been suffering with "unbearable" pain for over one year. By that time, she could not easily turn her head, and was already having difficulty walking, and her doctors told her that she was most likely going to be needing a wheelchair to remain mobile. By the mid to late 1990s, the progression of the illness and the medications (steroids, among others) to treat the illness quickly began to change her appearance. All of this caused her once vibrant acting career to slow considerably. Due to newly available drugs and other treatments, her Rheumatoid Arthritis has been in remission since 2006.Has played Chandler Bing's (Matthew Perry) cross-dressing father Charles Bing in three episodes of Friends (1994) in 2001. To this day, Matthew Perry still calls her "Dad".She performed some of her own stunts in Romancing the Stone (1984), Undercover Blues (1993) and V.I. Warshawski (1991). Her nose was broken while filming V.I. Warshawski (1991).Former accomplished gymnast.By her own admission, she turned down every role offered of a victimized, weak woman.Upon meeting the legendary Lauren Bacall, to whom she has often been compared, she reportedly introduced herself by saying, "Hi, I'm the young you.".Her father, Allen Richard Turner (B. August 18, 1919-D. June 4, 1972), was a career Foreign Service diplomat who was imprisoned in China by the Japanese during World War II. He died in Hempstead, England of coronary thrombosis and his body was brought home to Springfield, Missouri.On December 3, 1999, she checked herself into Marworth in Waverly, Pennsylvania, for alcohol abuse.Speaks Spanish fluently.Suffers from rheumatoid arthritis.Was raised in Canada, Cuba and England where her father was a diplomat.Lobbied hard for the lead role in 9? Weeks (1986) but lost out to Kim Basinger.Gave birth to her only child at age 33, a daughter Rachel Ann Weiss (aka Rachel Ann Weiss) on October 14, 1987. Child's father is her ex-husband, Jay Weiss.As in 2012, she said the director she has learned the most from is Francis Ford Coppola.Delivered her daughter Rachel Ann Weiss via emergency Caesarean section after the midwife was concerned that her lungs had not developed properly.She discovered she had developed rheumatoid arthritis in 1992, but did not publicly disclose her illness until 1994, during filming for Serial Mom (1994) in Baltimore.Was nominated for Broadway's 2005 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play for portraying Martha in the 2005 revival of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".Turner became pregnant by her husband, Jay Weiss, in November 1985 shortly after filming on Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) was completed. However, she went on to suffer a miscarriage in January 1986 during a flight to Italy, where she was to begin filming Julia and Julia (1987).Turner named Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) as her favorite film in an American Film Institute poll.Was nominated for Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for portraying Maggie the Cat in a revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".Drama classmates at Missouri State University included John Goodman and Tess Harper.Was immortalized in the 1980s song, "The Kiss of Kathleen Turner," by techno-pop singer Falco.Despite playing her mother in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Turner was just 9 years older than Helen Hunt.Ex-sister-in-law of fashion designer Donna Karan.Was awarded the 2006 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for her performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".Received a lifetime achievement award from the Savannah College of Art and Design at the Savannah Film Festival. (October 2004)Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004. At the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, she presented Quentin Tarantino with the Palme d'Or for Pulp Fiction (1994).Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars" in film history (#73) (1995).Somewhat resembles Lauren Bacall (looks and voice).Referenced by Jack Black in High Fidelity (2000). He says that his band's name is very close to being called "Kathleen Turner Overdrive".Education: Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU), Springfield, Missouri; transferred after two years University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland; B.F.A., 1977. She was involved in SMSU's Tent Theatre in the same summer as Tess Harper.Her mother, Patsy (Magee) Turner, passed away on February 13th, 2015, aged 91.Has been a long time member of the People For the American Way Foundation Board of Directors, and was previously on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of America.Attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England.Returned to work three months after giving birth to her daughter Rachel Ann Weiss to begin filming The Accidental Tourist (1988).Has one sister and two brothers.(October 9-23, 2014) Presided over the 50th Chicago International Film Festival's International Feature Competition Jury. She also received a tribute.Presiding the international jury of this 34th edition of the Ghent Film Festival (Flanders, Belgium). (October 2007)Companions with David Guc [1977 - 1982].Is one of 23 actresses who did not receive an Oscar nomination for their Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe-winning performance; hers being for Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi's Honor (1985). The others, in chronological order, are: June Allyson for Too Young to Kiss (1951), Ethel Merman for Call Me Madam (1953), Jean Simmons for Guys and Dolls (1955), Taina Elg and Kay Kendall for Les Girls (1957), Marilyn Monroe for Some Like It Hot (1959), Rosalind Russell for A Majority of One (1961) and Gypsy (1962), Patty Duke for Me, Natalie (1969), Twiggy for The Boy Friend (1971), Raquel Welch for The Three Musketeers (1973), Barbra Streisand for A Star Is Born (1976), Bernadette Peters for Pennies from Heaven (1981), Miranda Richardson for Enchanted April (1991), Jamie Lee Curtis for True Lies (1994), Nicole Kidman for To Die For (1995), Madonna for Evita (1996), Ren��e Zellweger for Nurse Betty (2000), Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Amy Adams for Big Eyes (2014) and Awkwafina for The Farewell (2019), Rosamund Pike for I Care a Lot (2020) and Rachel Zegler for West Side Story (2021).Ranked #1 in Fotogramas magazine's "Favourite Foreign Actress" poll in 1987 and 1988.Referenced by Emma Su��rez in Una casa en las afueras (1995).Born at 7:40 PM (CST).Her former assistant was Polly Brown. |
| Name: |
Kathleen Turner |
Type: |
Actress,Producer,Director (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
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IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Actress,Producer,Director |
| Products for sale: |
Actress,Producer,Director |
| Model rank: |
117 |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 03:03:53 |
| Height: |
5' 7?' (1.72 m) |
| Biography: |
Kathleen Turner was born June 19, 1954 in Springfield, Missouri, to Patsy (Magee) and Allen Richard Turner, a U.S. Foreign Service officer. She graduated from American School in London in 1972. After the death of her father, the Turner family moved b |
| Trivia: |
Spoke the voice (uncredited) of sexy Jessica Rabbit in the toon-noir Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).Was 9 months pregnant with her daughter Rachel Ann Weiss when she completed recording Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988); she actually went into labor on the final day of recording.In the early 1990s, as Rheumatoid Arthritis began impacting her acting career and her personal life in a significant way, she also began to see a decline in the number of acting roles she was being offered. When the diagnosis was finally made in 1992, she had already been suffering with "unbearable" pain for over one year. By that time, she could not easily turn her head, and was already having difficulty walking, and her doctors told her that she was most likely going to be needing a wheelchair to remain mobile. By the mid to late 1990s, the progression of the illness and the medications (steroids, among others) to treat the illness quickly began to change her appearance. All of this caused her once vibrant acting career to slow considerably. Due to newly available drugs and other treatments, her Rheumatoid Arthritis has been in remission since 2006.Has played Chandler Bing's (Matthew Perry) cross-dressing father Charles Bing in three episodes of Friends (1994) in 2001. To this day, Matthew Perry still calls her "Dad".She performed some of her own stunts in Romancing the Stone (1984), Undercover Blues (1993) and V.I. Warshawski (1991). Her nose was broken while filming V.I. Warshawski (1991).Former accomplished gymnast.By her own admission, she turned down every role offered of a victimized, weak woman.Upon meeting the legendary Lauren Bacall, to whom she has often been compared, she reportedly introduced herself by saying, "Hi, I'm the young you.".Her father, Allen Richard Turner (B. August 18, 1919-D. June 4, 1972), was a career Foreign Service diplomat who was imprisoned in China by the Japanese during World War II. He died in Hempstead, England of coronary thrombosis and his body was brought home to Springfield, Missouri.On December 3, 1999, she checked herself into Marworth in Waverly, Pennsylvania, for alcohol abuse.Speaks Spanish fluently.Suffers from rheumatoid arthritis.Was raised in Canada, Cuba and England where her father was a diplomat.Lobbied hard for the lead role in 9? Weeks (1986) but lost out to Kim Basinger.Gave birth to her only child at age 33, a daughter Rachel Ann Weiss (aka Rachel Ann Weiss) on October 14, 1987. Child's father is her ex-husband, Jay Weiss.As in 2012, she said the director she has learned the most from is Francis Ford Coppola.Delivered her daughter Rachel Ann Weiss via emergency Caesarean section after the midwife was concerned that her lungs had not developed properly.She discovered she had developed rheumatoid arthritis in 1992, but did not publicly disclose her illness until 1994, during filming for Serial Mom (1994) in Baltimore.Was nominated for Broadway's 2005 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play for portraying Martha in the 2005 revival of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".Turner became pregnant by her husband, Jay Weiss, in November 1985 shortly after filming on Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) was completed. However, she went on to suffer a miscarriage in January 1986 during a flight to Italy, where she was to begin filming Julia and Julia (1987).Turner named Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) as her favorite film in an American Film Institute poll.Was nominated for Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for portraying Maggie the Cat in a revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".Drama classmates at Missouri State University included John Goodman and Tess Harper.Was immortalized in the 1980s song, "The Kiss of Kathleen Turner," by techno-pop singer Falco.Despite playing her mother in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Turner was just 9 years older than Helen Hunt.Ex-sister-in-law of fashion designer Donna Karan.Was awarded the 2006 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for her performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".Received a lifetime achievement award from the Savannah College of Art and Design at the Savannah Film Festival. (October 2004)Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004. At the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, she presented Quentin Tarantino with the Palme d'Or for Pulp Fiction (1994).Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars" in film history (#73) (1995).Somewhat resembles Lauren Bacall (looks and voice).Referenced by Jack Black in High Fidelity (2000). He says that his band's name is very close to being called "Kathleen Turner Overdrive".Education: Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU), Springfield, Missouri; transferred after two years University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland; B.F.A., 1977. She was involved in SMSU's Tent Theatre in the same summer as Tess Harper.Her mother, Patsy (Magee) Turner, passed away on February 13th, 2015, aged 91.Has been a long time member of the People For the American Way Foundation Board of Directors, and was previously on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of America.Attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England.Returned to work three months after giving birth to her daughter Rachel Ann Weiss to begin filming The Accidental Tourist (1988).Has one sister and two brothers.(October 9-23, 2014) Presided over the 50th Chicago International Film Festival's International Feature Competition Jury. She also received a tribute.Presiding the international jury of this 34th edition of the Ghent Film Festival (Flanders, Belgium). (October 2007)Companions with David Guc [1977 - 1982].Is one of 23 actresses who did not receive an Oscar nomination for their Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe-winning performance; hers being for Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi's Honor (1985). The others, in chronological order, are: June Allyson for Too Young to Kiss (1951), Ethel Merman for Call Me Madam (1953), Jean Simmons for Guys and Dolls (1955), Taina Elg and Kay Kendall for Les Girls (1957), Marilyn Monroe for Some Like It Hot (1959), Rosalind Russell for A Majority of One (1961) and Gypsy (1962), Patty Duke for Me, Natalie (1969), Twiggy for The Boy Friend (1971), Raquel Welch for The Three Musketeers (1973), Barbra Streisand for A Star Is Born (1976), Bernadette Peters for Pennies from Heaven (1981), Miranda Richardson for Enchanted April (1991), Jamie Lee Curtis for True Lies (1994), Nicole Kidman for To Die For (1995), Madonna for Evita (1996), Ren��e Zellweger for Nurse Betty (2000), Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Amy Adams for Big Eyes (2014) and Awkwafina for The Farewell (2019), Rosamund Pike for I Care a Lot (2020) and Rachel Zegler for West Side Story (2021).Ranked #1 in Fotogramas magazine's "Favourite Foreign Actress" poll in 1987 and 1988.Referenced by Emma Su��rez in Una casa en las afueras (1995).Born at 7:40 PM (CST).Her former assistant was Polly Brown. |
| Trademarks: |
Seductive husky voice |
| Quotes: |
A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.
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I feel I get recognized for my voice more than for my face.
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I know there are nights when I have that power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there's a man there who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.
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I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be -- almost -- but I really want a good life. I've been married for 17 years -- I know, they call us the last couple. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I have a lovely home life with good friends who aren't in the business... and I have no desire to cost my whole life in pursuit of the career alone.
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When I was 20, I had so many more insecurities and looked for approbation from everyone. But by the time I was 40 and now at 50, you wake up and think, "Fuck you, I don't have to prove myself anymore", and that makes you sexy. |
| Salaries: |
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) - $2,000,000
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Body Heat (1981) - $30,000 |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Director |
| Others works: |
(1977) Play: "Mr. T", by Michael Zetter. Dir. Steve Yeager. Soho Repertory Theatre, New York, NY.
(1978 - 1979) Play: "Gemini", by Albert Innaurato. Dir. Peter Mark Schifter. Little Theatre, New York, NY.
(October 12, 1979 - November |
| Spouse: |
Jay Weiss (August 4, 1984 - December 2007) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Children: |
Rachel Ann Weiss |
| Parents: |
Patsy Magee
Allen Richard Turner |
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