Kathleen Turner
Actor, Celebrity
1954 –
Who is Kathleen Turner?
Mary Kathleen Turner, better known as Kathleen Turner, is an American film and stage actress and director. Turner came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in Body Heat, Romancing the Stone, and Prizzi's Honor, the latter two earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. In the later 1980s and early 1990s, Turner had roles in The Accidental Tourist, The War of the Roses, Serial Mom and Peggy Sue Got Married, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Turner later had roles in The Virgin Suicides, Baby Geniuses, and Beautiful, as well as guest-starring on the NBC sitcom Friends as Chandler Bing's cross-dressing father Charles Bing, and in the third season of Showtime's Californication as Sue Collini, the jaded, sex-crazed owner of a public relations company. Turner has also done considerable work as a voice actor, namely as Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as well as Monster House, and the television series King of the Hill.
In addition to film, Turner has worked actively in the theatre, and has been nominated for the Tony Award twice for her Broadway roles as Maggie in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof and as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Turner has also taught acting classes at New York University.
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- Born
- Jun 19, 1954
Springfield - Also known as
- Mary Kathleen Turner
- Kathleen J. Turner
- Dr. Kathleen J. Turner
- Parents
- Spouses
- Jay Weiss
(1984/08/04 - 2007/12)
- Jay Weiss
- Children
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Central School of Speech and Drama
- Missouri State University
- Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Maryland Baltimore County
( - 1977) - The American School in London
( - 1972)
- Lived in
- England
- Canada
- Venezuela
- Cuba
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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