Kathleen Turner
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 17.212 |
Birthday | 1954-06-19 |
Place of Birth | Springfield, Missouri, USA |
Also Known As | 캐서린 터너, קתלין טרנר, מרי קת'לין טרנר, |
1989
The War of the Roses
6.884/1099
The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she...
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The War of the Roses
1985
Prizzi's Honor
6.376/368
Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sig...
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Prizzi's Honor
2000
The Virgin Suicides
7.114/3184
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
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The Virgin Suicides
1986
Peggy Sue Got Married
6.126/546
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
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Peggy Sue Got Married
1985
The Jewel of the Nile
6.224/1125
Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who...
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The Jewel of the Nile
1988
The Accidental Tourist
6.201/226
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The Accidental Tourist
1999
Baby Geniuses
4.109/371
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Baby Geniuses
1983
The Man with Two Brains
6.187/415
A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.
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The Man with Two Brains
1994
Serial Mom
6.754/668
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascinatio...
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Serial Mom
1993
Naked in New York
4.7/19
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Naked in New York
2006
Monster House
6.689/3895
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Monster House
1984
Romancing the Stone
6.758/1782
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Romancing the Stone
1993
Undercover Blues
6.007/151
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Undercover Blues
1988
Switching Channels
6.056/71
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Switching Channels
1984
Crimes of Passion
6.29/162
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Crimes of Passion
1981
Body Heat
7/594
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
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Body Heat
1991
V.I. Warshawski
4.8/101
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V.I. Warshawski
1998
The Real Blonde
5.6/56
An aspiring actor and his girlfriend handle life's frustrations, while his friend seeks fulfillment with a blonde.
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The Real Blonde
2008
Marley & Me
7.2/4522
A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packe...
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Marley & Me
2024
The Long Game
0/0
Ambitious young actress Holly Sloan agrees to help her boyfriend Richard Metzger scam Hollywood legend Mariah McKay, but the two women strike up an un...
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The Long Game
1997
A Simple Wish
5.491/161
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver...
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A Simple Wish
1995
Moonlight and Valentino
5.561/74
A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.
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Moonlight and Valentino
1993
House of Cards
6.268/69
When Ruth Matthews's husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, her daughter Sally handles her father's death in a very odd manner. As Sall...
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House of Cards
2005
The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch
5.7/3
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The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch
1989
Tummy Trouble
6.8/68
Roger Rabbit once again is chosen for the dangerous task of babysitting Baby Herman and everything is going to be just fine.
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Tummy Trouble
1990
Roller Coaster Rabbit
6.6/72
Roger Rabbit struggles to keep wandering Baby Herman safe in an amusement park where the usual havoc ensues.
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Roller Coaster Rabbit
1993
Trail Mix-Up
7.057/53
During a picnic, Baby Herman follows a beaver into a perilous sawmill - with Roger Rabbit in frantic pursuit.
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Trail Mix-Up
2011
The Perfect Family
4.8/21
Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman o...
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The Perfect Family
1998
Legalese
5.7/6
When an actress is charged with murder, a charming celebrity lawyer uses trickery to defend her against the press as well as the prosecution.
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Legalese
1988
Julia and Julia
5.3/17
Giulia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day....
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Julia and Julia
2022
The Estate
5.4/105
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The Estate
1984
A Breed Apart
5.784/36
A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
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A Breed Apart
2014
Dumb and Dumber To
5.562/3126
20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.
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Dumb and Dumber To
2002
The Kid Stays in the Picture
6.635/89
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The Kid Stays in the Picture
2000
National Geographic Kids: Creepy Creatures
0/0
Via the persona of Clawdette the black cat, Kathleen Turner narrates this not-for-the-squeamish documentary from National Geographic. From a Komodo dr...
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National Geographic Kids: Creepy Creatures
2000
Prince of Central Park
4.5/12
A young boy sets out to find his mother. After setting up camp in Central Park, he encounters a group of people even needier than himself.
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Prince of Central Park
2022
The Swearing Jar
6.3/6
Carey and Simon, an otherwise perfect couple, are trying to kick their swearing habit before their baby arrives. Tumultuous times ensue as Carey meets...
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The Swearing Jar
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
7.2/104
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
2013
Nurse 3-D
5.3/441
Abby Russell, a beautiful, dedicated nurse with a sinister side, has a secret life in which she targets and punishes dishonest men.
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Nurse 3-D
1990
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
9/3
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed comm...
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
7.5/5602
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her....
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
4/2
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
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Night of 100 Stars III
2000
Cinderella
6.1/23
Zezolla and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father is won over by a selfish woman named Claudette, C...
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Cinderella
2016
America’s Diplomats
0/0
A documentary about American diplomats narrated by Kathleen Turner
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America’s Diplomats
2015
Emily & Tim
6.8/7
The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
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Emily & Tim
2000
Beautiful
5.72/40
Determined to win the Miss American Miss pageant, Mona is ready to sacrifice anything and everything to guarantee herself the crown including her own...
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Beautiful
1995
Friends at Last
7.5/2
Some time after her messy divorce, Fanny Connelyn realises her ex-husband is becoming her best friend.
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Friends at Last
2005
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
6.4/5
Kirk Douglas achieved the kind of cinematic stardom that dreams are made of. As the torch was passed to his talented son Michael, it became obvious to...
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A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2017
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
7.2/4
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.
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Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
2017
Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood
7.5/2
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2017
Another Kind of Wedding
5.5/17
A fractured family is forced to confront what tore them apart at the eldest son's wedding.
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Another Kind of Wedding
2015
Fifty Shades of Erotica
7/2
Before Fifty Shades of Grey and beyond the limits of desire, Nucleus Films draw back the veil on Fifty Shades of Erotica. Now, in the privacy of your...
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Fifty Shades of Erotica
1996
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
10/3
A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons.
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The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1997
Bad Baby
6.5/2
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1988
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
6.2/8
A behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Joanna Cassidy on the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
1999
Love and Action in Chicago
5/7
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Love and Action in Chicago
2000
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
7.2/4
While Sofia Coppola directed her first feature, her mother, the artist and filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, was there to document the experience.
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The Making of The Virgin Suicides
1999
In Bad Taste
8/8
A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers. The life and death of the actor Divine...
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In Bad Taste
2016
In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole
0/0
An in-depth interview with John Waters, Kathleen Turner and Mink Stole on the making of Serial Mom.
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In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole
2015
"That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To'
7.5/11
An expansive, five-part 45 minute making-of with cast and crew interviews.
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"That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To'
2019
The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment
0/0
Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—including the show-stopping tenor aria “Ah! Mes amis,”...
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment
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0/0
Marie was found on a battlefield as a baby, and raised by the entire 21st Regiment as their 'daughter'. Her foster-father Sulpice has decreed that she...
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1987
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
7.1/25
Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive f...
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1995
American Cinema
0/0
The history of Hollywood and filmmaking comes alive in this spectacular nine hour celebration of movie magic. It's a mesmerizing, epic analysis that c...
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American Cinema
1996
The Best of Roger Rabbit
7/7
VIdeo compilation of the three Roger Rabbit shorts: 'Tummy Trouble', 'Roller Coaster Rabbit' and 'Trail Mix-Up'.
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The Best of Roger Rabbit
1988
cascadeurs de stars
0/0
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cascadeurs de stars
1994
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
7/3
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