Kathleen Turner

Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an American actress.

Career

She attended Southwest Missouri State University at Springfield for two years, then gained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1977. In 1978 Turner was hired as the second Nola Turner on NBC daytime soap The Doctors, but was fired the next year because the producers felt she was "not hot enough". Turner had the last laugh as she became a movie star a few years later in Body Heat, which many consider one of the sexiest films (with Turner giving one of the sexiest performances) in the history of cinema. Turner remained a film star up to the early 1990s, but has since rarely appeared in major productions.

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Southwest Missouri State University - University of Maryland Baltimore County - 1977 - 1978 - NBC - The Doctors - Body Heat - Cinema - 1990s

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In addition to the television work listed above, she has also appeared as a guest on Friends (as the transvestite father of Chandler Bing), King of the Hill (voice), The Simpsons (voice), and Saturday Night Live, which she hosted twice.

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Friends - Transvestite - Chandler Bing - King of the Hill - The Simpsons - Saturday Night Live

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In 2000 Turner starred as Mrs Robinson in the London revival of The Graduate. In March 2005, she starred, with Bill Irwin, as Martha in a revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway.

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2000 - The Graduate - 2005 - Bill Irwin - Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Broadway

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