About
Kathleen Turner
Overview
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
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2024 | The Long Game | Actor | Mariah McKay | N/A N/A |
2022 | The Estate | Actor | Aunt Hilda Beauchamp | 58 Average |
2022 | The Swearing Jar | Actor | Bev | 58 Average |
2019 | The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment | Actor | Duchess of Krakenthorp | N/A N/A |
2018 | The Kominsky Method | Actor | Roz | 74 Good |
2017 | Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2017 | Another Kind of Wedding | Actor | Barbara Haines | 58 Average |
2017 | Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
2016 | In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2016 | The Path | Actor | Brenda Roberts | 66 Fair |
2016 | America’s Diplomats | Actor | Self (voice) | N/A N/A |
2015 | Emily & Tim | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
2015 | Fifty Shades of Erotica | Actor | 59 Average |
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2015 | "That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2014 | Dumb and Dumber To | Actor | Fraida | 56 Average |
2013 | Nurse 3-D | Actor | Head Nurse | 56 Average |
2011 | The Perfect Family | Actor | Eileen Cleary | 58 Average |
2009 | Waking Sleeping Beauty | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 61 Fair |
2008 | Marley & Me | Actor | Ms. Kornblut | 70 Good |
2006 | Monster House | Actor | Constance (voice) | 66 Fair |
2005 | A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2005 | The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2002 | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 60 Fair |
2000 | The Making of The Virgin Suicides | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2000 | Prince of Central Park | Actor | Rebecca Cairn | 58 Average |
2000 | Beautiful | Actor | Verna Chickle | 58 Average |
2000 | National Geographic Kids: Creepy Creatures | Actor | Clawdette the Black Cat (voice) | N/A N/A |
2000 | The Virgin Suicides | Actor | Mrs. Lisbon | 69 Fair |
2000 | Cinderella | Actor | Claudette | 59 Average |
1999 | Love and Action in Chicago | Actor | Middleman | 58 Average |
1999 | In Bad Taste | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1999 | Baby Geniuses | Actor | Elena Kinder | 51 Average |
1998 | Legalese | Actor | Brenda Whitlass | 59 Average |
1998 | The Real Blonde | Actor | Dee Dee Taylor | 58 Average |
1997 | A Simple Wish | Actor | Claudia | 57 Average |
1997 | Bad Baby | Actor | Mom (voice) | 59 Average |
1996 | The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1996 | The Best of Roger Rabbit | Actor | Jessica Rabbit (voice) (archive footage) | 59 Average |
1995 | Moonlight and Valentino | Actor | Alberta Trager | 58 Average |
1995 | Friends at Last | Actor | Fanny Connelyn | 59 Average |
1995 | American Cinema | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
1994 | Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
1994 | Serial Mom | Actor | Beverly Sutphin | 63 Fair |
1993 | Naked in New York | Actor | Dana Coles | 58 Average |
1993 | Undercover Blues | Actor | Jane Blue | 59 Average |
1993 | House of Cards | Actor | Ruth Matthews | 59 Average |
1993 | Trail Mix-Up | Actor | Jessica Rabbit (voice) | 60 Fair |
1991 | Rabbit Ears - Rumpelstiltskin | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
1991 | V.I. Warshawski | Actor | Victoria 'V.I.' Warshawski | 57 Average |
1990 | Roller Coaster Rabbit | Actor | Jessica Rabbit (voice) | 59 Average |
1990 | Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To | Actor | Self - Host | 59 Average |
1990 | Night of 100 Stars III | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1989 | The War of the Roses | Actor | Barbara Rose | 65 Fair |
1989 | Tummy Trouble | Actor | Jessica Rabbit (voice) | 60 Fair |
1988 | The Accidental Tourist | Actor | Sarah Leary | 59 Average |
1988 | Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1988 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Actor | Jessica Rabbit (voice) | 73 Good |
1988 | cascadeurs de stars | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1988 | Switching Channels | Actor | Christy Colleran | 59 Average |
1988 | Julia and Julia | Actor | Giulia | 58 Average |
1987 | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | Actor | Lynda Van Devanter (voice) | 59 Average |
1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married | Actor | Peggy Sue | 60 Fair |
1985 | The Jewel of the Nile | Actor | Joan Wilder | 61 Fair |
1985 | Prizzi's Honor | Actor | Irene Walker | 61 Fair |
1984 | Crimes of Passion | Actor | Joanna Crane / China Blue | 59 Average |
1984 | A Breed Apart | Actor | Stella Clayton | 58 Average |
1984 | Romancing the Stone | Actor | Joan Wilder | 66 Fair |
1983 | The Man with Two Brains | Actor | Dolores Benedict | 60 Fair |
1981 | Body Heat | Actor | Matty Walker | 64 Fair |
La Fille du régiment - Royal Opera House | Actor | Duchess of Krakenthorp | N/A N/A |
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1994 | Leslie's Folly | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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2018 | Brave Little Army | Production | Casting Assistant | N/A N/A |
1995 | Friends at Last | Production | Producer | 59 Average |