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Kathleen Turner is a Actor and Executive producer American born on 19 june 1954 at Springfield (USA)
Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954), 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 (1981), Romancing the Stone (1984), and Prizzi's Honor (1985), 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 (1988), The War of the Roses (1989), Serial Mom (1994) and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Turner later had roles in The Virgin Suicides (1999), Baby Geniuses (1999), and Beautiful (2000), 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 (1988), as well as Monster House (2006), and the television series King of the Hill.
In addition to film, Turner has worked 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.
By the late 1980s, Turner had acquired a reputation for being difficult: what The New York Times called "a certifiable diva." She admitted that she had developed into "not a very kind person," and the actress Eileen Atkins referred to her as "an amazing nightmare." Turner slammed Hollywood over the difference in the quality of roles offered to male actors and female actors as they age, calling the disparity a "terrible double standard."
In 1990, Turner received unfavorable publicity when a deliberately lit fire at the Happy Land Social Club, located in a building managed by her husband, claimed 87 lives. The club was operating without a license and the building had been cited for numerous fire safety violations, but The New Yorker quoted Turner saying, "the fire was unfortunate, but could have happened at a McDonald's."
As a result of her altered looks and weight gain from her rheumatoid arthritis treatment, The New York Times published this statement in 2005, "Rumors began circulating that she was drinking too much. She later said in interviews that she didn't bother correcting the rumors because people in show business hire drunks all the time, but not people who are sick." Turner has had well-publicized problems with alcohol, which she used as an escape from the pain and symptoms of acute rheumatoid arthritis. Turner has admitted that owing to her illness, she was in constant unbearable agony and that as a result, the people she was closest to would suffer from it, as she was constantly drinking to relieve the pain and it made her a very difficult person. A few weeks after leaving the production of the play The Graduate in November 2002, Turner was admitted into the Marworth hospital in Waverly, Pennsylvania, for the treatment of alcoholism. "I have no problem with alcohol when I'm working," she explained. "It's when I'm home alone that I can't control my drinking...I was going toward excess. I mean, really! I think I was losing my control over it. So it pulled me back."
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Kathleen Turner
Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954), 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 (1981), Romancing the Stone (1984), and Prizzi's Honor (1985), 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 (1988), The War of the Roses (1989), Serial Mom (1994) and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Turner later had roles in The Virgin Suicides (1999), Baby Geniuses (1999), and Beautiful (2000), 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 (1988), as well as Monster House (2006), and the television series King of the Hill.
In addition to film, Turner has worked 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.
Biography
Turner married the real estate entrepreneur Jay Weiss of New York City in 1984, and they had one child, their daughter, Rachel Ann Weiss, who was born on October 14, 1987. Turner had been born into a Methodist family, but she has said that she has "taken on a certain amount of Jewish tradition and identity" since marrying her Jewish husband and raising their daughter in Judaism. In 2006, Turner announced that she and Weiss were planning a trial separation. Turner and Weiss carried this forward to a divorce that became official in December 2007, but Turner has said, "[Jay]'s still my best friend."By the late 1980s, Turner had acquired a reputation for being difficult: what The New York Times called "a certifiable diva." She admitted that she had developed into "not a very kind person," and the actress Eileen Atkins referred to her as "an amazing nightmare." Turner slammed Hollywood over the difference in the quality of roles offered to male actors and female actors as they age, calling the disparity a "terrible double standard."
In 1990, Turner received unfavorable publicity when a deliberately lit fire at the Happy Land Social Club, located in a building managed by her husband, claimed 87 lives. The club was operating without a license and the building had been cited for numerous fire safety violations, but The New Yorker quoted Turner saying, "the fire was unfortunate, but could have happened at a McDonald's."
As a result of her altered looks and weight gain from her rheumatoid arthritis treatment, The New York Times published this statement in 2005, "Rumors began circulating that she was drinking too much. She later said in interviews that she didn't bother correcting the rumors because people in show business hire drunks all the time, but not people who are sick." Turner has had well-publicized problems with alcohol, which she used as an escape from the pain and symptoms of acute rheumatoid arthritis. Turner has admitted that owing to her illness, she was in constant unbearable agony and that as a result, the people she was closest to would suffer from it, as she was constantly drinking to relieve the pain and it made her a very difficult person. A few weeks after leaving the production of the play The Graduate in November 2002, Turner was admitted into the Marworth hospital in Waverly, Pennsylvania, for the treatment of alcoholism. "I have no problem with alcohol when I'm working," she explained. "It's when I'm home alone that I can't control my drinking...I was going toward excess. I mean, really! I think I was losing my control over it. So it pulled me back."
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Filmography of Kathleen Turner (42 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Dumb and Dumber To | Actress | Fraida |
| 2013 | Nurse 3-D | Actress | Head Nurse |
| 2011 | The Perfect Family | Actress, Executive producer | Eileen Cleary |
| 2010 | Furry Vengeance | Actress | Tammy Sanders |
| 2009 | Waking Sleeping Beauty | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Marley & Me | Actress | Ms. Kornblut |
| 2006 | Monster House | Actress | Constance (voice) |
| 2005 | Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers | Actress | |
| 2002 | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
| 2000 | Beautiful | Actress | Verna Chickle |
| 2000 | In Bad Taste | Actress | Self |
| 2000 | Prince of Central Park | Actress | Rebecca Cairn |
| 1999 | Baby Geniuses | Actress | Elena Kinder |
| 1999 | The Virgin Suicides | Actress | Mrs. Lisbon |
| 1999 | Love and Action in Chicago | Actress | Middleman |
| 1998 | The Real Blonde | Actress | Dee Dee Taylor |
| 1997 | A Simple Wish | Actress | Claudia |
| 1995 | Moonlight and Valentino | Actress | Alberta Trager |
| 1994 | Serial Mom | Actress | Beverly Sutphin |
| 1993 | House of Cards | Actress | Ruth Matthews |
| 1993 | Naked in New York | Actress | Dana Coles |
| 1993 | Undercover Blues | Actress | Jane Blue |
| 1993 | Trail Mix-Up | Actress | Jessica Rabbit (voice) |
| 1991 | V.I. Warshawski | Actress | Victoria 'V.I.' Warshawski |
| 1990 | Roller Coaster Rabbit | Actress | Jessica Rabbit (voice) |
| 1989 | The War of the Roses | Actress | Barbara Rose |
| 1989 | The Accidental Tourist | Actress | Sarah Leary |
| 1989 | Tummy Trouble | Actress | Jessica Rabbit (voice) |
| 1988 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Actress | Jessica Rabbit (voice) |
| 1988 | Julia and Julia | Actress | Giulia |
| 1988 | Switching Channels | Actress | Christy Colleran |
| 1987 | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | Actress | Lynda Van Devanter (voice) |
| 1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married | Actress | Peggy Sue |
| 1985 | Prizzi's Honor | Actress | Irene Walker |
| 1985 | The Jewel of the Nile | Actress | Joan Wilder |
| 1984 | Romancing the Stone | Actress | Joan Wilder |
| 1984 | A Breed Apart | Actress | Stella Clayton |
| 1984 | Crimes of Passion | Actress | Joanna Crane / China Blue |
| 1983 | The Man with Two Brains | Actress | Dolores Benedict |
| 1981 | Body Heat | Actress | Matty Walker |
| 1957 | The Snow Queen | Actress | Snow Queen (1995 Jove Films version voice) |
| 1937 | Thin Ice | Actress |