Biography
Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and two Tony Awards.
Turner became widely known during the 1980s, with roles in Body Heat (1981), The Man with Two Brains (1983), Crimes of Passion (1984), Romancing the Stone (1984), and Prizzi's Honor (1985), the latter two earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In the later 1980s and early 1990s, Turner had roles in The Accidental Tourist (1988), The War of the Roses (1989), and Serial Mom (1994).
She later had roles in The Virgin Suicides (1999), Baby Geniuses (1999), Beautiful (2000), and Marley & Me (2008). On TV she guest-starred on the NBC sitcom Friends as Chandler Bing's drag queen father Charles Bing, in the third season of Showtime's Californication as Sue Collini, the jaded, sex-crazed owner of a talent agency, and on the Netflix dramedy series The Kominsky Method as Michael Douglas's character's ex-wife Roz Volander. Turner's voice roles include Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Monster House (2006), and voicing characters on the television series The Simpsons, Family Guy, King of the Hill, and Rick and Morty.
In addition to film, Turner has worked in the theater, and has been nominated for the Tony Award twice for her Broadway roles as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Turner has also taught acting classes at New York University.
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Filmography
all 110
Movies 73
TV Shows 37
self 37
Voice 9
Narrator 3
The Long Game (2024)
White House Plumbers (2023)
The Estate (2022)
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings (2019)
The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment (2019)
Icons (2019)
Brave Little Army (2018)
Summer Camp Island (2018)
The Path (2016)
Emily & Tim (2015)
Rick and Morty (2013)
Nurse 3-D (2013)
Mom (2013)
The Perfect Family (2011)
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
Marley & Me (2008)
Californication (2007)
Great Performances at the Met (2007)
Monster House (2006)
The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
Prince of Central Park (2000)
Beautiful (2000)
National Geographic Kids: Creepy Creatures (2000)
The Virgin Suicides (2000)
Cinderella (2000)
Baby Geniuses (1999)
Family Guy (1999)
Legalese (1998)
The Real Blonde (1998)
A Simple Wish (1997)
King of the Hill (1997)
Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
Friends at Last (1995)
American Cinema (1995)
Friends (1994)
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (1994)
Serial Mom (1994)
Ancient Mysteries (1994)
American Cinema (1994)
Naked in New York (1993)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
Undercover Blues (1993)
The Chevy Chase Show (1993)
House of Cards (1993)
Trail Mix-Up (1993)
Rabbit Ears - Rumpelstiltskin (1991)
Law & Order (1990)
Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990)
The Simpsons (1989)
The War of the Roses (1989)
Tummy Trouble (1989)
The Accidental Tourist (1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Switching Channels (1988)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)
American Masters (1986)
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Crimes of Passion (1984)
A Breed Apart (1984)
Romancing the Stone (1984)
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
Body Heat (1981)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
Tony Awards (1956)
La Fille du régiment - Royal Opera House
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1954-06-19 (70 years old)
Birth NameMary Kathleen Turner
Birth PlaceSpringfield, United States
ChildrenRachel Weiss
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known As캐서린 터너, קתלין טרנר, מרי קת'לין טרנר
AwardsEvening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress, Theatre World Special Award, Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
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