Kathleen turner biography imdb star
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Awards
16 wins & 28 nominations
Academy Awards, USA
Academy of Information Fiction, Vision & Revulsion Films, USA
Antalya Golden River Film Festival
BAFTA Awards
Chicago Worldwide Film Festival
David di Sculpturer Awards
Ghent Worldwide Film Festival
Golden Globes, USA
Grammy Awards
Hasty Second course Theatricals, USA
Los Angeles Peel Critics Society Awards
Montréal Globe Film Festival
National Board interpret Review, USA
National Society see Film Critics Awards, USA
New York Disc Critics Skyrocket Awards
People's Preference Awards, USA
Provincetown International Disc Festival
Screen Actors Guild Awards
ShoWest Convention, USA
WorldFest Houston
Savannah Ep Festival
Sant Jordi Awards
Joseph Highland Awards
MovieGuide Awards
Chlotrudis Awards
DVD Restricted Awards
Jupiter Award
Online Film & Television Association
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Kathleen Turner was born June 19, in Springfield, Missouri, to Patsy (Magee) and Allen Richard Turner, a U.S. Foreign Service officer. She graduated from American School in London in 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 Kathleen made her film debut in Body Heat (), 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 (), Romancing the Stone (), The Jewel of the Nile (), Prizzi's Honor (), Peggy Sue Got Married (), The War of the Roses (), and Serial Mom ().
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Kathleen Turner
A leading lady of s cinema, Kathleen Turner earned comparisons to s femme fatales like Barbara Stanwyck for sensuous, aggressive roles in "Body Heat" (), "Prizzi's Honor" () and "The War of the Roses" (). When the smoky-voiced actress was not manipulating male characters with her on-screen sultry ways, she proved to be quite a comedienne, as well, volleying quips with Michael Douglas in the jungle adventure film "Romancing the Stone" () and inhabiting an year-old body in "Peggy Sue Got Married" (). She received a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis in the early s, and that - along with the actress' heavy drinking and over status - meant her screen appearances were reduced to character roles as moms and comic villains, which she still pulled off with panache.
After acclaimed theatrical runs in "The Graduate" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" on the New York and London stages, the fiery actress regained her esteemed reputation and settled into a comfortable real-life role as a supporting film player, theater director and acting teacher while appearing in films including "Marley and Me" () and "Dumb and Dumber To" () and TV series such as "Californication" (Showtime ).
A globe-trotter from birth, Kathleen Turner was born June 19, ; the child of a foreign serv