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Kathleen Turner
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Born: Jun 19, 1954
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Kathleen turner was the daughter of career diplomats, and while growing up, she lived in four foreign countries (Canada, Cuba, Venezuela, and the United Kingdom). Her father, Allen Richard Turner, grew up in China and, as a foreign services diplomat.
While attending high school in London, she was a gymnast and also took classes at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
In her early years, Turner was interested in performing, despite her father's lack of encouragement.
She graduated from the American School in London in 1972. She attended Missouri State University at Springfield for two years, then gained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1977.
In 1978 she made her acting debut in the television NBC daytime soap The Doctors as the second Nola Dancy Aldrich.
Turner soon launched a successful film career, however, making her debut in 1981 as the ruthless Matty Walker in the neo-noir thriller Body Heat, which many consider one of the sexiest films ever. Empire Magazine cited the film in 1995 when it named her one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History. The New York Times wrote in 2005 that, propelled by her "jaw-dropping movie debut [in] Body Heat... she built a career on adventurousness and frank sexuality borne of robust physicality."
On film, Turner rose to prominence as the star of Romancing the Stone with Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito. Demanding film critic Pauline Kael wrote of her performance as the mild-mannered romance writer Joan Wilder, "Turner knows how to use her dimples amusingly and how to dance like a Woman who didn’t know she could; her star performance is exhilarating."
Romancing the Stone was a surprise hit: she won a Golden Globe for her role in the film and it became one of the top-ten-grossing movies of 1984. Turner reteamed with Douglas and DeVito the next year for a sequel, The Jewel of the Nile.
After Jewel, Kathleen Turner starred in Prizzi's Honor with Jack Nicholson. winning a...[MORE]
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