January 24, 2020

Hello fans,

I'm a big fan of today's featured celebrity. Kathleen Turner has been a stellar actress since the late 1970s. She's appeared in so many classic movies like Romancing the Stone, The Man with Two Brains, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In more recent years I rather enjoyed her performance in the Showtime series Californication. She must have been having a blast!

She's had such a solid career that had spanned decades. So let's catch up with the legendary Kathleen Turner, star of stage and screen. Oh, The War of the Roses was great, too!

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Kathleen Turner

Learn More About Kathleen Turner, see Then & Now pictures, and find out What She's Been Up To on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: June 19, 1954 in Springfield, Missouri, USA

BIRTH NAME: Mary Kathleen Turner

CLAIM TO FAME: Kathleen Turner is an American film and stage actress best nown for her distinctive gritty voice and memorable roles in Body Heat, Romancing the Stone, and Peggy Sue Got Married.

FAMILY LIFE: Turner married real estate entrepreneur Jay Weiss in 1984, and they had one daughter, Rachel Ann Weiss, who was born on October 14, 1987. In 2006, Turner and Weiss and she were planning a trial separation. Turner and Weiss then officially divorced in December 2007.

INFO: Born to Patsy and Allen Richard Turner, a career U.S. Foreign Service officer who was imprisoned in China by the Japanese during World War II.

Has one sister and two brothers.

Was raised in Canada, Cuba and England where her father was a diplomat.

Speaks Spanish fluently.

Former accomplished gymnast.

She attended high school at the American School in London, graduating in 1972.

She also attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England.

Attended the Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU) in 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.

By her own admission, she turned down every role offered of a victimized, weak woman.

Turner has won two Golden Globe Awards for Romancing the Stone, and Prizzi's Honor (1985), and has been nominated for an Academy Award for Peggy Sue Got Married.

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.

In December of 1999, she checked herself into Marworth in Waverly, Pennsylvania, for alcohol abuse.

Received a lifetime achievement award from the Savannah College of Art and Design at the Savannah Film Festival.

Was nominated for Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as Best Actress for portraying Maggie the Cat in a revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

Turner discovered she had developed rheumatoid arthritis in 1992, but did not publicly disclose her illness until 1994. It got so bad that 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 late 1990s, the progression of the illness and the medications began to change her appearance. Due to newly available drugs and other treatments, her Rheumatoid Arthritis has been in remission since 2006.

At the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, she presented Quentin Tarantino with the Palme d'Or for Pulp Fiction (1994).

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?".

Was awarded the 2006 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for her performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".

TRIVIA: Lobbied hard for the lead role in 9 1/2 Weeks but lost out to Kim Basinger.

Was 9 months pregnant with her daughter Rachel Ann Weiss when she completed recording Who Framed Roger Rabbit and actually went into labor on the final day of recording.

Turner named Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as her favorite film in an American Film Institute poll.

Is one of 20 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 and Prizzi's Honor.

In 1995, she was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars" in film history (#73).

Broke her nose while filming V.I. Warshawski.

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."

Has played Chandler Bing's (Matthew Perry) cross-dressing father Charles Bing on Friends. To this day, Matthew Perry still calls her "Dad".

Turner said the director she has learned the most from is Francis Ford Coppola.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Turner has been working consistently since the late 1970s. As of 2020 her most recent television appearance was on the hit CBS sitcom Mom. Looking forward to see what she's going to do next.

CREDITS:

2020 Mom (TV Series)...Cookie
- One Tiny Incision and a Coffin Dress (2020) ... Cookie

2019 Lovestruck (TV Movie)...Grace

2019 Dolly Parton's Heartstrings (TV Series)...Miss Mary Shaw
- These Old Bones (2019) ... Miss Mary Shaw

2019 Rick and Morty (TV Series)...Monogatron Queen
- The Old Man and the Seat (2019) ... Monogatron Queen (voice)

2019 The Kominsky Method (TV Series)...Ruth
- Chapter 10. An Old Flame, an Old Wick (2019) ... Ruth

2019 3Below: Tales of Arcadia (TV Series short)...Gwendolyn
- There's Something About Gwen (of Gorbon) (2019) ... Gwendolyn (voice)

2019 The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (TV Series)...The Duchess of Krakenthorp
- Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment (2019) ... The Duchess of Krakenthorp

2017 Another Kind of Wedding...Barbara

2017 American Masters (TV Series documentary)...Narrator
- Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive (2017) ... Narrator (voice)

2017 Family Guy (TV Series)...Kathleen Turner disguised as Peter Griffin
- Foxx in the Men House (2017) ... Kathleen Turner disguised as Peter Griffin (voice)

2016-2017 The Path (TV Series)...Brenda Roberts
- Return (2017) ... Brenda Roberts
- A Homecoming (2016) ... Brenda Roberts

2015 Emily & Tim...Narrated by (voice)

2014 Dumb and Dumber To...Fraida

2013 Gods Behaving Badly...Styx (credit only)

2013 Nurse 3D...Head Nurse

2011 The Perfect Family...Eileen Cleary

2009 Californication (TV Series)...Sue Collini
- Mia Culpa (2009) ... Sue Collini
- Dogtown (2009) ... Sue Collini
- Mr. Bad Example (2009) ... Sue Collini
- So Here's the Thing... (2009) ... Sue Collini
- Glass Houses (2009) ... Sue Collini
- Slow Happy Boys (2009) ... Sue Collini
- Zoso (2009) ... Sue Collini
- Verities & Balderdash (2009) ... Sue Collini
- The Land of Rape and Honey (2009) ... Sue Collini
- Wish You Were Here (2009) ... Sue Collini

2008 Marley & Me...Ms. Kornblut

2006 Nip/Tuck (TV Series)...Cindy Plumb
- Cindy Plumb (2006) ... Cindy Plumb

2006 Monster House...Constance (voice)

2006 Law & Order (TV Series)...Rebecca Shane
- Magnet (2006) ... Rebecca Shane

2001 Friends (TV Series)...Charles Bing / Helena Handbasket
- The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding: Part 2 (2001) ... Charles Bing / Helena Handbasket
- The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding: Part 1 (2001) ... Charles Bing / Helena Handbasket
- The One with Chandler's Dad (2001) ... Charles Bing / Helena Handbasket

2000 Prince of Central Park...Rebecca Cairn

2000 Beautiful...Verna Chickle

2000 National Geographic Kids: Creepy Creatures (Video short)...Clawdette the Black Cat (voice)

2000 King of the Hill (TV Series)...Miss Liz Strickland
- High Anxiety (2000) ... Miss Liz Strickland (voice)
- Hanky Panky (2000) ... Miss Liz Strickland (voice)

2000 Air: Playground Love (Video short)...Mrs. Lisbon

2000/I Cinderella (TV Movie)...Claudette

1999 Love and Action in Chicago...Middleman

1999 The Virgin Suicides...Mrs. Lisbon

1999 Baby Geniuses...Elena

1998 Stories from My Childhood (TV Series)...The Snow Queen / The Magic Woman
- The Snow Queen (1998) ... The Snow Queen (voice)
- The Last Petal (1998) ... The Magic Woman (voice)

1998 Legalese (TV Movie)...Brenda Whitlass

1997 The Real Blonde...Dee Dee Taylor

1997 A Simple Wish...Claudia

1997 Bad Baby...Mom (voice)

1996 The Best of Roger Rabbit (Video)...Jessica Rabbit (voice)

1995 Moonlight and Valentino...Alberta Russell

1995 Friends at Last (TV Movie)...Fanny Connelyn

1994 Leslie's Folly (TV Short)...Nurse

1994 Serial Mom...Mom

1994 The Simpsons (TV Series)...Stacy Lavelle
- Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy (1994) ... Stacy Lavelle (voice)

1993 Naked in New York...Dana Coles

1993 Undercover Blues...Jane Blue

1993 House of Cards...Ruth Matthews

1993 Trail Mix-Up (Short)...Jessica Rabbit (voice)

1992 We All Have Tales: Rumpelstiltskin (Video short)...Narrator (voice)

1991 V.I. Warshawski...Vic

1990 Roller Coaster Rabbit (Short)...Jessica Rabbit (voice)

1989 The War of the Roses...Barbara Rose

1989 Tummy Trouble (Short)...Jessica Rabbit (voice)

1988 The Accidental Tourist...Sarah

1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit...Jessica Rabbit (voice, uncredited)

1988 Switching Channels...Christy Colleran

1987 Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (TV Movie documentary)...1st Lt. Lynda Van Devanter (voice)

1987 Julia and Julia...Giulia

1986 Peggy Sue Got Married...Peggy Sue

1985 Billy Ocean: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going (Video short)...Kathleen Turner

1985 The Jewel of the Nile...Joan

1985 Prizzi's Honor...Irene Walker

1984 Crimes of Passion...Joanna Crane / China Blue

1984 A Breed Apart...Stella Clayton

1984 Romancing the Stone...Joan Wilder

1983 The Man with Two Brains...Dolores Benedict

1981 Body Heat...Matty Walker

1978-1979 The Doctors (TV Series)...Nola Dancy Aldrich
222 episodes

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