Kathleen Turner
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kathleen Turner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2024 · The Long Game as Mariah McKay
- 2023 · White House Plumbers as Dita Beard
- 2022 · The Estate as Aunt Hilda Beauchamp
- 2022 · The Swearing Jar as Bev
- 2019 · Dolly Parton's Heartstrings as Miss Mary Shaw
- 2019 · The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment as Duchess of Krakenthorp
- 2018 · The Kominsky Method as Roz
- 2018 · Summer Camp Island as Mole Judge (voice)
- 2017 · Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood as Self
- 2017 · Another Kind of Wedding as Barbara Haines
- 2017 · Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive as Narrator
- 2016 · In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole as Self
- 2016 · The Path as Brenda Roberts
- 2016 · America’s Diplomats as Self (voice)
- 2015 · Emily & Tim as Narrator
- 2015 · Fifty Shades of Erotica as
- 2015 · "That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To' as Self
- 2014 · Dumb and Dumber To as Fraida
- 2013 · Rick and Morty as Monogatron Queen (voice)
- 2013 · Nurse 3-D as Head Nurse
- 2013 · Mom as Cookie
- 2011 · The Perfect Family as Eileen Cleary
- 2010 · Masterclass as Self
- 2009 · Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2008 · Marley & Me as Ms. Kornblut
- 2007 · Californication as Sue Collini
- 2007 · Shrink Rap as Self
- 2006 · Monster House as Constance (voice)
- 2005 · A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Self
- 2005 · The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch as Self
- 2004 · Today with Des and Mel as
- 2003 · Nip/Tuck as
- 2002 · The Kid Stays in the Picture as Self (archive footage)
- 2000 · The Making of The Virgin Suicides as Self
- 2000 · Prince of Central Park as Rebecca Cairn
- 2000 · Beautiful as Verna Chickle
- 2000 · National Geographic Kids: Creepy Creatures as Clawdette the Black Cat (voice)
- 2000 · The Virgin Suicides as Mrs. Lisbon
- 2000 · Cinderella as Claudette
- 1999 · Love and Action in Chicago as Middleman
- 1999 · In Bad Taste as Self
- 1999 · Baby Geniuses as Elena Kinder
- 1999 · Family Guy as Kathleen Turner disguised as Peter Griffin (voice)
- 1998 · Legalese as Brenda Whitlass
- 1998 · The Real Blonde as Dee Dee Taylor
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · A Simple Wish as Claudia
- 1997 · Bad Baby as Mom (voice)
- 1997 · King of the Hill as Miss Liz Strickland (voice)
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self
- 1996 · The Best of Roger Rabbit as Jessica Rabbit (voice) (archive footage)
- 1995 · Moonlight and Valentino as Alberta Trager
- 1995 · Friends at Last as Fanny Connelyn
- 1995 · American Cinema as Narrator
- 1994 · Friends as Helena
- 1994 · Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
- 1994 · Serial Mom as Beverly Sutphin
- 1993 · Naked in New York as Dana Coles
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · Undercover Blues as Jane Blue
- 1993 · House of Cards as Ruth Matthews
- 1993 · Trail Mix-Up as Jessica Rabbit (voice)
- 1992 · HBO First Look as
- 1991 · Rabbit Ears - Rumpelstiltskin as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · V.I. Warshawski as Victoria 'V.I.' Warshawski
- 1990 · Law & Order as Rebecca Shane
- 1990 · Roller Coaster Rabbit as Jessica Rabbit (voice)
- 1990 · Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To as Self - Host
- 1990 · Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Stacy Lovell (voice)
- 1989 · The War of the Roses as Barbara Rose
- 1989 · Tummy Trouble as Jessica Rabbit (voice)
- 1988 · The Accidental Tourist as Sarah Leary
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1988 · Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town as Self
- 1988 · Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Jessica Rabbit (voice)
- 1988 · cascadeurs de stars as Self
- 1988 · Switching Channels as Christy Colleran
- 1988 · Julia and Julia as Giulia
- 1987 · Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam as Lynda Van Devanter (voice)
- 1986 · Peggy Sue Got Married as Peggy Sue
- 1986 · American Masters as Narrator (voice)
- 1985 · The Jewel of the Nile as Joan Wilder
- 1985 · Prizzi's Honor as Irene Walker
- 1984 · Crimes of Passion as Joanna Crane / China Blue
- 1984 · A Breed Apart as Stella Clayton
- 1984 · Romancing the Stone as Joan Wilder
- 1983 · The Man with Two Brains as Dolores Benedict
- 1981 · Entertainment Tonight as Self
- 1981 · Body Heat as Matty Walker
- 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
- 1977 · Bitte umblättern as Self
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · La Fille du régiment - Royal Opera House as Duchess of Krakenthorp