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Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an United
States|American actor|actress. 

== Early life ==
Born Mary Kathleen Turner in Springfield,
Missouri, the daughter of diplomat Richard Turner,
she had lived in four foreign countries by the
time she entered college.  She has two brothers
and a sister.  She was a gymnast as a teenager. 
While attending high school in London, she also
took classes at the Central School of Speech and
Drama.  When her father died in 1973, the family
moved back to Springfield.

== Career ==
She attended Southwest 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
Turner was hired as the second Nola Turner on NBC
daytime soap The Doctors, but was fired the next
year because the producers felt she was "not hot
enough". Turner had the last laugh as she became a
movie star a few years later in Body Heat, which
many consider one of the sexiest films (with
Turner giving one of the sexiest performances) in
the history of cinema. Turner remained a film star
up to the early 1990s, but has since rarely
appeared in major productions.

In addition to the television work listed above,
she has also appeared as a guest on Friends, King
of the Hill (voice), The Simpsons (voice), and
Saturday Night Live, which she hosted twice.

In 2000 Turner starred as Mrs Robinson in the
London revival of The Graduate. In March 2005, she
starred, with Bill Irwin, as Martha in a revival
of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway.

==Awards==
She was nominated for an Academy Award|Oscar for
best actress in 1987 for her role in Peggy Sue Got
Married.  She received two Golden Globe awards,
both for Best Performance by an Actress in a
Motion Picture, for Romancing the Stone (1984) and
Prizzi's Honor (1985).

==Personal life==
Turner married New York real-estate mogul Jay
Weiss in 1984. They have a daughter, Rachel Ann
Weiss, born 1988.  Turner was diagnosed with
rheumatoid arthritis in 1992.

==Filmography==
*Body Heat (1981)
*The Man with Two Brains (1983)
*A Breed Apart (1984)
*Romancing the Stone (1984)
*Crimes of the Passion (1984)
*Prizzi's Honor (1985)
*The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
*GoBots: War of the Rock Lords (1986) (voice)
*Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
*Julia and Julia (1987)
*Switching Channels (1988)
*Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (voice)
*The Accidental Tourist (1988)
*Tummy Trouble (1989) (short subject) (voice)
*The War of the Roses (1989)
*Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990) (short subject)
(voice)
*V.I. Warshawski (1991)
*A Day at a Time (1992) (documentary) (narrator)
*Naked in New York (1992)
*Trail Mix-Up (1993) (short subject) (voice)
*House of Cards (1993)
*Undercover Blues (1993)
*Serial Mom (1994)
*Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
*Bad Baby (1997) (voice)
*A Simple Wish (1997)
*The Real Blonde (1997)
*Baby Geniuses (1999)
*The Virgin Suicides (1999)
*Beautiful (2000)
*Prince of Central Park (2000)
*Without Love (2004) 
*Last of the Wild Chimps (2004) (short subject)
(narrator)
*Monster House (2006) (currently in
post-production)

==External links==
*imdb name | id=0000678 | name=Kathleen Turner
*http://www.kathleen-turner.com Official Web-site