Kathleen Turner è nata il 19 giugno 1954 a Springfield, Missouri, Stati Uniti.

Carriera. Turner è una celebre attrice con una carriera cinematografica di successo. Ha recitato in una serie di film di notevole rilevanza, tra cui "Body Heat" (1981), "Romancing the Stone" (1984) e "Peggy Sue Got Married" (1986).

Interessi. Kathleen Turner è una donna di molte passioni. Oltre alla sua carriera di attrice, è nota per il suo coinvolgimento in questioni sociali e il suo attivismo per i diritti civili e le questioni ambientali. Ha sostenuto molte cause umanitarie e ambientali.

Voce iconica. La sua voce profonda e distintiva è diventata un suo marchio di fabbrica ed è stata utilizzata in doppiaggio per film d'animazione e documentari.

Teatro e Televisione. Turner ha anche avuto una carriera teatrale di successo, vincendo un Tony Award per la sua performance in ""The War of the Roses" (1990). Ha partecipato anche a produzioni televisive di successo.

Filmografia

1981 - Body Heat (Director: Lawrence Kasdan)

1983 - The Man with Two Brains (Director: Carl Reiner)

1983 - Romancing the Stone (Director: Robert Zemeckis)

1984 - Crimes of Passion (Director: Ken Russell)

1984 - The Jewel of the Nile (Director: Lewis Teague)

1985 - Prizzi's Honor (Director: John Huston)

1986 - Peggy Sue Got Married (Director: Francis Ford Coppola)

1987 - Julia and Julia (Director: Peter Del Monte)

1987 - The Accidental Tourist (Director: Lawrence Kasdan)

1988 - Switching Channels (Director: Ted Kotcheff)

1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Director: Robert Zemeckis)

1989 - The War of the Roses (Director: Danny DeVito)

1989 - Crimes and Misdemeanors (Director: Woody Allen)

1991 - V.I. Warshawski (Director: Jeff Kanew)

1992 - House of Cards (Director: Michael Lessac)

1994 - Serial Mom (Director: John Waters)

1994 - Moonlight and Valentino (Director: David Anspaugh)

1994 - The Last Time I Committed Suicide (Director: Stephen Kay)

1994 - Undercover Blues (Director: Herbert Ross)

1994 - Junior (Director: Ivan Reitman)

1995 - The Heidi Chronicles (TV Movie, Director: Paul Bogart)

1995 - Friends at Last (TV Movie, Director: Stuart Cooper)

1996 - A Simple Wish (Director: Michael Ritchie)

1996 - Beautiful as a Rainbow (Director: Duk-Hyun Choi, Geun-Shik Jo)

1997 - The Real Blonde (Director: Tom DiCillo)

1998 - Legalese (TV Movie, Director: Glenn Jordan)

1998 - Baby Geniuses (Director: Bob Clark)

1999 - Love and Action in Chicago (Director: Dwayne Johnson-Cochran)

1999 - The Virgin Suicides (Director: Sofia Coppola)

1999 - Cinderella (TV Movie, Voice, Director: Kenneth Branagh)

2000 - The Simian Line (Director: Linda Yellen)

2001 - Beautiful (Director: Sally Field)

2001 - The Pledge (Director: Sean Penn)

2002 - Friends and Family (Director: Kristen Coury)

2003 - Hollywood Ending (Director: Woody Allen)

2003 - Marci X (Director: Richard Benjamin)

2004 - Perfect Upstairs Neighbors (Director: David M. Matthews)

2004 - Who's the Top? (Short, Director: Sally Potter)

2005 - House of D (Director: David Duchovny)

2005 - The Virgin of Juarez (Director: Kevin James Dobson)

2006 - Monster House (Voice, Director: Gil Kenan)

2006 - Running with Scissors (Director: Ryan Murphy)

2006 - The Path to 9/11 (TV Mini-Series, Director: David L. Cunningham)

2007 - The Hunting of the Snark (Voice, Director: Mike Batt)

2008 - Baby Mama (Director: Michael McCullers)

2008 - Marley & Me (Director: David Frankel)

2008 - Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Director: Woody Allen)

2009 - The Perfect Family (Director: Anne Renton)

2010 - The Virginity Hit (Director: Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland)

2011 - The Perfect Family (Director: Anne Renton)

2014 - Dumb and Dumber To (Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly)

2015 - The Red Maple Leaf (Director: Frank D'Angelo)

2018 - The Con Is On (Director: James Oakley)

2019 - Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (TV Movie, Director: Marc Bruni)

2021 - The Kominsky Method (TV Series)

Premi:

• Golden Globe Award come Migliore Attrice in  "Romancing the Stone" 1985.
• Golden Globe Award nomination come Migliore Attrice in "The War of the Roses" 1990.
• Tony Award come Migliore Attrice in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" nel 1990.