Kathleen Turner - Fact Sheet

Profession: Actress

Possessing poise reminiscent of the Hollywood divas of old, Kathleen Turner parlayed her blonde, sultry looks and sexy, smoky voice to overnight stardom with her feature debut as William Hurt's seductive temptress in "Body Heat" (1981), Lawrence Kasdan's contemporary film noir. Her unforgettable temperature-raising performance established her femme fatale persona and prompted Barbara Stanwyck to write and say that the only actress who could have played Matty Walker better was Barbara Stanwyck. Turner, who speaks five languages and acquired her presence honestly enough as the globe-trotting daughter of a foreign diplomat, experienced a rather meteoric rise through the ranks, although like most, she had trouble remaining at the heights she reached. Though her father's death deposited her broken-hearted in her mother's home state of Missouri, she threw herself into life as a student actress and landed an agent within a month of her 1977 arrival in NYC. Work Off-Broadway led to her role as social-climbing Nola Dancy Aldrich on the NBC daytime drama "The Doctors", and she debuted on Broadway in "Gemini" in 1978. 

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