Kathleen Turner turns 63


Born June 19, 1954 in Springfield, Missouri. Graduated from American School in London in 1972. After the death of her father, the Turner family moved back to the United States where Kathleen later enrolled at Missouri State University for two years, and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 1977.  Body Heat (1981) was her debut role, as the relentless Matty Waker. Kathleen continued to flourish with performances in The Man with Two Brains (1983), Romancing the Stone (1984),  Crimes of Passion (1984), The Jewel of the Nile (1985), Prizzi's Honor (1985), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Julia and Julia (1987), Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988), The Accidental Tourist (1988), The War of the Roses (1989), V.I. Warshawski (1991), Undercover Blues (1993), Serial Mom (1994) and The Virgin Suicides (1999) among others.

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