Name: Kathleen Turner
Real name: Mary Kathleen Turner
Natinality: american actress
Mary Kathleen Turner, better known as Kathleen Turner, is an American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Serial Mom, Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor.
Turner married New York City real estate entrepreneur Jay Weiss in 1984; their daughter, Rachel Ann Weiss was born on October 14, 1987. Turner was born into a Methodist family and has said that she has "taken on a certain amount of Jewish tradition and identity" since marrying her husband and raising their daughter in the Jewish religion. In 2006, Turner announced that she and Weiss were planning a trial separation. They were divorced in December 2007, but Turner has said, "He's still my best friend".
By the late 1980s, Turner had acquired a reputation for being difficult: what The New York Times called "a certifiable diva." She admitted that she was "not a very kind person" and actress Eileen Atkins has referred to her as "an amazing nightmare." According to her colleagues on Virginia Woolf, she has become easier to work with. Turner has also slammed Hollywood for how actors get better roles as they age and the opposite happens for actresses citing it as a 'terrible double standard,'.
As a result of her altered looks from her arthritis treatment, The New York Times wrote in 2005, "Rumors began circulating that she was drinking too much. She later said in interviews that she didn't bother correcting the rumors because people in show business hire drunks all the time, but not people who are sick". However, Turner has had well-publicized problems with alcohol, which she used as an escape from her rheumatoid arthritis. Turner has admitted that due to her illness she was in constant unbearable agony and that as a result the people she was closest to would suffer from it as she was constantly drinking to relieve the pain and it made her a very difficult person. A few weeks after leaving The Graduate in November 2002, Turner checked herself into Marworth in Waverly, Pennsylvania for alcohol abuse treatment. "I have no problem with alcohol when I'm working", she later explained. "It's when I'm home alone that I can't control my drinking ... I was going toward excess. I mean, really! I think I was losing my control over it. So it pulled me back."
Notable films include ROMANCING THE STONE, PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED, THE WAR OF THE ROSES, PRIZZI'S HONOR, JEWEL OF THE NILE, THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, and UNDERCOVER BLUES. Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT ?
Turner's newest films include: DELILAH, BEAUTIFUL, PRINCE OF CENTRAL PARK, and MONSTER HOUSE.
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