Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor.
(1995) Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars" in film history (#73).
Education: Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri; transferred after two years University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland; B.F.A., 1977.
Suffers from rheumatoid arthritis.
Was immortalized in the 1980s song, "The Kiss of Kathleen Turner," by techno-pop singer Falco (I).
She performed some of her own stunts in Romancing the Stone (1984), Undercover Blues (1993) and V.I. Warshawski (1991). Her nose was broken while filming V.I. Warshawski (1991).
Spoke the voice (uncredited) of sexy Jessica Rabbit in the toon-noir Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
Was considered for the lead in Basic Instinct (1992).
Also attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Sister-in-law of fashion designer Donna Karan.
Somewhat resembles Lauren Bacall (looks and voice).
Her father, Richard, was a foreign service diplomat who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WWII.
Upon meeting the legendary Lauren Bacall, to whom she has often been compared, she reportedly introduced herself by saying, "Hi, I'm the young you."
Daughter Rachel Ann Weiss born October 14, 1987.
(3 December 1999) Checked herself into Marworth in Waverly, Pennsylvania, for alcohol abuse.
Fluent in Spanish.
She recieved a lifetime achievement award from the Savannah College of Art and Design at the Savannah Film Festival in October 2004.
Was nominated for Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for portraying Maggie the Cat in a revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004
Was nominated for Broadway's 2005 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play for portraying Martha in the 2005 revival of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Has one eye that's blue and one eye that's hazel.
London Evening Standard Theatre Award 2006 for her performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Ranked #1 in Fotogramas magazine's "Favourite Foreign Actress." poll [1988].
Ranked #1 in Fotogramas magazine's "Favourite Foreign Actress." poll [1987].
Referenced by Jack Black in High Fidelity. He says that his band's name is very close to being called "Kathleen Turner Overdrive".
