Kathleen Turner
Biography
Kathleen Turner is an American actress whose husky voice became her trademark. Born in Springfield, Missouri, she was raised in Canada, Cuba, Venezuela and London, and made her off-Broadway and Broadway debuts in 1977. After a role on the soap opera The Doctors, she made her film debut as Matty Walker in Body Heat (1981). She won Golden Globes for Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi's Honor (1985), and her title performance in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) earned an Academy Award nomination. Among her other films are The War of the Roses (1989), Serial Mom (1994) and The Virgin Suicides (1999), and she supplied the voice of Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). Her stage work brought two Tony nominations, for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and on television she appeared in Friends and The Kominsky Method. She has also taught acting at New York University.
72years old
Turns 73 on June 19in 220 days
- Born Springfield
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
- Mary Kathleen Turner (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 34
- Career span
- 45 years1981 to 2026
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A role that slipped away
Turner was first cast as Zira in Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. She discussed the part and sang some of her character's song on The Rosie O'Donnell Show, but Suzanne Pleshette took over the role in the finished movie.
A role that slipped away
In 2005, Turner won the part of Martha in a Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Longacre Theatre, beating other contenders such as Jessica Lange, Frances McDormand and Bette Midler.
A first
Turner's Metropolitan Opera debut came in February 2019, when she took the speaking part of The Duchess of Krakentorp in Donizetti's La fille du régiment.
Kathleen Turner movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Robert Zemeckis directed two of these films, Lawrence Kasdan two and Frank Marshall two. Danny DeVito appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Danny DeVito's page
Steve Buscemi's page
Christopher Lloyd's page
Michael Douglas's page
Charles Fleischer's page
Lou Hirsch's page
All films by Robert Zemeckis
All films by Lawrence Kasdan
All films by Frank Marshall
Box office
What Kathleen Turner's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.5 billion
25 of the 34 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 34 films: 25 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 7 figure not found.
- 25Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 7Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 87% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$352M23.5% of the total
- 2$256M17.1% of the total
- 3$170M11.4% of the total
- 4$160M10.7% of the total
- 5$140M9.4% of the total
- 6$97M6.5% of the total
- 7$87M5.8% of the total
- 8$41M2.8% of the total
$192 millionfrom the other 17 films with a worldwide figure, 13% of the total
Awards
Five awards and honors from 1984 to 1990, two of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Globes | |||
| 1985 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Prizzi's Honor | Won |
| 1984 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Romancing the Stone | Won |
| Other honors | |||
| 1990 | Theatre World Special Award | Won | |
| 1989 | Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year | Won | |
| Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress | Won | ||
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.