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 Turner as private eye V.I. Warshawski Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an American actress.
Early daysBorn 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 London Central School of Speech and Drama. When her father died in 1973, the family moved back to Springfield. CareerShe attended Southwest Missouri State University at Springfield for two years, then gained her Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland 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 90's, but has since rarely appeared in major productions. In addition to the television work listed above, she also has 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, appearing fully nude (albeit in darkly lit sequences). AwardsShe was nominated for an Oscar for best actress in 1987 in Peggy Sue Got Married. She received two Golden Globe awards, both for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, in Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi's Honor (1985). Personal lifeTurner married New York real-estate mogul Jay Weiss in 1984. They have a daughter, Rachel Ann Weiss, born 1988. She was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 1992. Filmography
As the voice of Jessica Rabbit
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