Actress Kathleen Turner was born Mary Kathleen Turner in Springfield Missouri on June 19, 1954.  Her father Richard Turner was a diplomat and Kathleen was a gymnast when she was a teenager.

She started her acting career in 1978 where she had a small part in a TV series called "The Doctors. She appeared on that for one year.  After that her breakthrough movie was "Body Heat" in 1981.

The movie that really got her noticed was "Romancing The Stone" starring Michael Douglas in 1984.  She also got an Oscar nomination for the movie "Peggy Sue Got Married," where she played a housewife.  She did many movies after that, and also was the voice of Jessica Rabbit in the 1988 movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."

The recent movies that Turner has done are "Beautiful" starring Minnie Driver and "Prince of Central Park."  She is presently married to Jay Weiss and has one daughter named Rachel Ann.  In 1999, she had some trouble with alcohol and checked herself in for alcohol abuse.

Kathleen Turner also suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and in November of 2002 did a live chat on the Arthritis Foundation website.

The most recent appearance Turner has had has been in March 2003 where she was with Robert Vaughn for one week at a theatre in New York and was in the drama "The Exonerated."