Kathleen Turner
1 FOLLOWER • 38 CREDITS • JUN 19, 1954 • 70
Biography
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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Known For
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Family Guy
Nip/Tuck
Saturday Night Live
Rick and Morty
The Daily Show
King of the Hill
Friends
Mom
The Simpsons
Law & Order
Summer Camp Island
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
Californication
Masterclass
HBO First Look
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Kominsky Method
Tony Awards
Monster House
The Path
White House Plumbers
The Estate
Tummy Trouble
Dumb and Dumber To
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Oscars
Marley & Me
Moonlight and Valentino
The Long Game
The Accidental Tourist
Roller Coaster Rabbit
A Simple Wish
The Virgin Suicides
Trail Mix-Up
Cinderella
Peggy Sue Got Married
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