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Biography of Kathleen Turner

Kathleen Turner, born on June 19, 1954, in Springfield, Montana, is an American film actress. She attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and studied at the drama departments of the universities of Missouri and Maryland.

Turner burst onto the American movie screen in the 1980s, reviving the tradition of romantic comediennes from the golden age of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s. She also revitalized the portrayal of the traditional cunning and duplicitous femme fatale, and took on the role of a new sexual symbol, occupying the long-vacant position left by Marilyn Monroe.

Her rebellious, defiant, adventurous nature is inherited from her parents, as she spent her childhood and youth in various countries where her father, a diplomat, worked. After graduating from university, she honed her acting skills in experimental theater, performing a wide range of roles from Chekhov to Albee. She then moved to New York, worked as a waitress, participated in off-Broadway productions, and appeared in television commercials and soap opera series.

Turner's path to success is typical to the point of being unbelievable. However, both her personality and her appearance are unconventional. The aggressive nature of Turner's eroticism is an organic extension of her appearance. She is not one of those women "whose height flatters men." Tall, athletic, with long legs, she seems to lack femininity. Her mischievous gray eyes, a slightly upturned nose, and a mane of golden hair exude a Nordic chill, softened only by charming dimples that appear when she smiles. While she often exaggerates her expressions, her range of facial contortions, five or six for every occasion, truly transform her face. However, her external mimicking does not necessarily lead to internal transformation. Describing Turner's roles is a rather hollow exercise, as both the situations and her manner are similar. She often offends or seduces men, but with a selfish purpose, playing her part in such a way that the viewer never doubts her double game. This woman, a product and victim of emancipation, perpetually holds a deep contempt for men. Desired by all, she truly belongs to none, always eluding, changing, and using them. She is forever independent, proclaiming, "How dare they think that their attention will automatically be rewarded? Remember, girls, we always have the right to say 'no.' We don't owe anyone anything, neither love nor sex..."

If in the 1960s and 1970s the male mind was drawn to the weak, vulnerable, feminine Marilyn Monroe, then in the 1980s, this strong, athletic, authoritative woman became their idol, arousing a strange mixture of irritation and longing. And she achieves all this in roles that seem almost like showcases: an adventurous romance novelist caught in the web of her own fabricated adventures ("Romancing the Stone," 1984; "The Jewel of the Nile," 1985); a prostitute who transforms into a respected designer by day ("Crimes of Passion," 1984); a seductive and manipulative killer ("Body Heat," 1981) and a professional assassin ("Prizzi's Honor," 1985); a television journalist caught in a love triangle, political passions, and a detective investigation ("Switching Channels," 1988). Even in the roles of a family mother and housewife, unusual things happen to her: she either travels back in time to her own past ("Peggy Sue Got Married," 1988) or engages in a deadly battle with her husband ("The War of the Roses," 1989).

It was said that the screenplay for the last film, based on the eponymous novel, was written by someone who knew Turner like a psychoanalyst knows their client. Although the untamed nature of the actress is accurately portrayed, her own marriage to producer Jay Weiss is considered successful. They have a daughter, whose birth Turner anticipated during the period of voicing the animated character Jessica, created in her own likeness, in the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" (1988). This explains the particularly low, deep modulations of her erotic and flexible voice, trained at the best diction school in the world in London. In recent years, Turner has gained weight and appears infrequently on screen.