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Kathleen Turner |
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Birth Place: Springfield, Missouri, USA
Birthday:June 19, 1954
Height:5' 1"
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- Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars" in film history (#73). [1995]
- Education: Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri; transferred after two years University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland; B.F.A., 1977.
- Suffers from rheumatoid arthritis.
- Was immortalized in the 1980s song, "The Kiss of Kathleen Turner," by techno-pop singer Falco.
- She performed some of her own stunts in Romancing the Stone (1984), Undercover Blues (1993) and V.I. Warshawski (1991). Her nose was broken while filming V.I. Warshawski (1991).
- Spoke the voice (uncredited) of sexy Jessica Rabbit in the toon-noir Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
- Was considered for the lead in Basic Instinct (1992).
- Also attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
- Sister-in-law of fashion designer Donna Karan.
- Somewhat resembles Lauren Bacall (looks and voice).
- Her father, Richard, was a foreign service diplomat who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WWII.
- Upon meeting the legendary Lauren Bacall, to whom she has often been compared to, she reportedly introduced herself by saying, "Hi, I'm the young you."
- Daughter Rachel Ann Weiss born October 14, 1987
- Checked herself into Marworth in Waverly, Pennsylvania for alcohol abuse. [3 December 1999]
- Fluent in Spanish.
- She recieved a lifetime achievement award from the Savannah College of Art and Design at the Savannah Film Festival in October 2004.
- Was nominated for Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for portraying Maggie the Cat in a revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004
- Was nominated for Broadway's 2005 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play for portraying Martha in the 2005 revival of Edward Albee' "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
- Has one eye that's blue and one eye that's hazel.
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