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Kathleen Turner
Actor, Producer
Born June 19, 1954 (70 years)
Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and two Tony Awards.
Turner became widely known during the 1980s, with roles in Body Heat (1981), The Man with Two Brains (1983), Crimes of Passion (1984), Romancing the Stone (1984), and Prizzi's Honor (1985), the latter two earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), for which she was nominated for the Academy 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), and Serial Mom (1994).
She later had roles in The Virgin Suicides (1999), Baby Geniuses (1999), Beautiful (2000), and Marley & Me (2008). On TV she guest-starred on the NBC sitcom Friends as Chandler Bing's drag queen father Charles Bing, in the third season of Showtime's Californication as Sue Collini, the jaded, sex-crazed owner of a talent agency, and on the Netflix dramedy series The Kominsky Method as Michael Douglas's character's ex-wife Roz Volander. Turner's voice roles include Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Monster House (2006), and voicing characters on the television series The Simpsons, Family Guy, King of the Hill, and Rick and Morty.
In addition to film, Turner has worked in the theater, 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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Turner became widely known during the 1980s, with roles in Body Heat (1981), The Man with Two Brains (1983), Crimes of Passion (1984), Romancing the Stone (1984), and Prizzi's Honor (1985), the latter two earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), for which she was nominated for the Academy 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), and Serial Mom (1994).
She later had roles in The Virgin Suicides (1999), Baby Geniuses (1999), Beautiful (2000), and Marley & Me (2008). On TV she guest-starred on the NBC sitcom Friends as Chandler Bing's drag queen father Charles Bing, in the third season of Showtime's Californication as Sue Collini, the jaded, sex-crazed owner of a talent agency, and on the Netflix dramedy series The Kominsky Method as Michael Douglas's character's ex-wife Roz Volander. Turner's voice roles include Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Monster House (2006), and voicing characters on the television series The Simpsons, Family Guy, King of the Hill, and Rick and Morty.
In addition to film, Turner has worked in the theater, 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.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Kathleen Turner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
2023 | White House Plumbers (TV Series) · as Dita Beard |
2022 | Lynch/Oz · as Mom |
2022 | The Swearing Jar · as Bev |
2022 | The Estate · as Aunt Hilda |
2022 | |
2021 | HouseBroken (TV Series) · as Nancy |
2020 | Wizards: Tales of Arcadia (TV Series) · as Lady Of The Lake |
2019 | Dolly Parton's Heartstrings (TV Series) · as Miss Mary Shaw |
2018 | 3Below: Tales of Arcadia (TV Series) · as Gwendolyn |
2018 | The Kominsky Method (TV Series) · as Roz |
2018 | Summer Camp Island (TV Series) · as Mole Judge (voice) |
2017 | Another Kind of Wedding · as Barbara Haines |
2016 | Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive · as Narrator |
2016 | The Path (TV Series) · as Brenda Roberts |
2015 | Emily & Tim · as Narrator |
2015 | |
2014 | Dumb and Dumber To · as Fraida |
2013 | Rick and Morty (TV Series) · as Monogatron Queen (voice) |
2013 | Gods Behaving Badly · as Styx |
2013 | |
2013 | Mom (TV Series) · as Cookie |
2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen · as Barbara Rose |
2011 | The 65th Annual Tony Awards · as Sister Jamison Connelly |
2011 | The Perfect Family · as Eileen Cleary |
2009 | Life Is a Banquet · as Rosalind Russell |
2008 | Marley & Me · as Ms. Kornblut |
2007 | Californication (TV Series) · as Sue Collini |
2006 | Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD (TV Series) · as The Duchess Of Krakenthorp |
2006 | Monster House · as Constance (voice) |
2004 | Retrosexual: The '80s (TV Series) · as Cast |
2003 | Sex at 24 Frames Per Second · as Matty Walker |
2003 | Nip/Tuck (TV Series) |
2003 | The 75th Annual Academy Awards · as Joan Wilder |
2002 | Today with Des and Mel (TV Series) |
2002 | Gylne tider (TV Series) · as Joan Wilder |
2000 | Prince of Central Park · as Rebecca Cairn |
2000 | Beautiful · as Verna Chickle |
2000 | Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years · as Joan Wilder |
2000 | Air: Playground Love · as Mrs. Lisbon |
2000 | Cinderella · as Claudette |
1999 | Love and Action in Chicago · as Middleman |
1999 | The Virgin Suicides · as Mrs. Lisbon |
1999 | Baby Geniuses · as Elena Kinder |
1999 | Family Guy (TV Series) · as Kathleen Turner Disguised As Peter Griffin (voice) |
1998 | Legalese · as Brenda Whitlass |
1998 | Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood (TV Series) · as The Magic Woman |
1997 | The Real Blonde · as Dee Dee Taylor |
1997 | A Simple Wish · as Claudia |
1997 | |
1997 | King of the Hill (TV Series) · as Miss Liz Strickland (voice) |
1996 | The Best of Roger Rabbit · as Jessica Rabbit (voice) (archive Footage) |
1995 | Moonlight and Valentino · as Alberta Trager |
1995 | Friends at Last · as Fanny Connelyn |
1995 | American Cinema · as Narrator |
1994 | Friends (TV Series) · as Helena |
1994 | Serial Mom · as Beverly Sutphin |
1993 | Naked in New York · as Dana Coles |
1993 | Undercover Blues · as Jane Blue |
1993 | House of Cards · as Ruth Matthews |
1993 | Trail Mix-Up · as Jessica Rabbit (voice) |
1992 | HBO First Look (TV Series) |
1991 | V.I. Warshawski · as Victoria 'v.i.' Warshawski |
1990 | Law & Order (TV Series) · as Rebecca Shane |
1990 | Roller Coaster Rabbit · as Jessica Rabbit (voice) |
1990 | The 16th Annual People's Choice Awards · as Barbara Rose |
1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Stacy Lovell (voice) |
1989 | The War of the Roses · as Barbara Rose |
1989 | Tummy Trouble · as Jessica Rabbit (voice) |
1989 | The 61st Annual Academy Awards · as Sarah |
1988 | The Accidental Tourist · as Sarah Leary |
1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark (TV Series) |
1988 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit · as Jessica Rabbit (voice) |
1988 | Switching Channels · as Christy Colleran |
1987 | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam · as Lynda Van Devanter (voice) |
1987 | Julia and Julia · as Giulia |
1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married · as Peggy Sue |
1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
1985 | The Jewel of the Nile · as Joan Wilder |
1985 | Prizzi's Honor · as Irene Walker |
1984 | Crimes of Passion · as Joanna Crane / China Blue |
1984 | A Breed Apart · as Stella Clayton |
1984 | Romancing the Stone · as Joan Wilder |
1983 | The Man with Two Brains · as Dolores Benedict |
1981 | Body Heat · as Matty Walker |
1977 | The Metropolitan Opera Presents (TV Series) · as Duchess Of Krakenthorp |
1963 | The Doctors (TV Series) · as Nola Dancy Aldrich |