Also attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Checked herself into Marworth in Waverly, Pennsylvania, for alcohol abuse. [3 December 1999]
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars" in film history (#73). [1995]
Companion of David Guc [1977 - 1982].
Daughter, Rachel Weiss (Rachel Ann Weiss), was born on October 14, 1987, with ex-husband Jay Weiss.
Despite playing her mother in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Turner was just 9 years older than Helen Hunt.
Drama classmates at Missouri State University included John Goodman and Tess Harper.
Education: Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU), Springfield, Missouri; transferred after two years University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland; B.F.A., 1977. She was involved in SMSU's Tent Theatre in the same summer as Tess Harper.
Fluent in Spanish.
Former accomplished gymnast.
Has one eye that's blue and one eye that's hazel.
Her father, Richard, was a foreign service diplomat who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WWII.
Her former assistant was Polly Brown.
London Evening Standard Theatre Award 2006 for her performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004
Ranked #1 in Fotogramas magazine's "Favourite Foreign Actress." poll [1987].
Ranked #1 in Fotogramas magazine's "Favourite Foreign Actress." poll [1988].
Referenced by Emma Suárez in Una casa en las afueras (1995).
Referenced by Jack Black in High Fidelity (2000). He says that his band's name is very close to being called "Kathleen Turner Overdrive".
She discovered she had developed rheumatoid arthritis during shooting Serial Mom (1994).