Kathleen Turner

Screen icon Kathleen Turner has garnered critical acclaim for her performances in movies including Body Heat, Romancing the Stone, Prizzi’s Honor, Peggy Sue Got Married, and War of the Roses. Turner’s extensive film credits also include The Man with Two Brains, Jewel of the Nile, The Accidental Tourist, V.I. Warshawski, John Waters’ Serial Mom, Naked in New York, Moonlight and Valentino, The Real Blonde, and Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides. Ms. Turner has starred on Broadway in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Indiscretions, The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and High. She also made her debut at The Metropolitan Opera in La Fille Du Régiment. Ms. Turner starred as Molly Ivins in Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins at Philadelphia Theater Center, The Geffen in LA, and Arena Stage in DC. Also at Arena, Ms. Turner appeared in one of her most challenging roles, Mother Courage in Mother Courage and Her Children, as well as in Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. She has starred opposite Ian McDiarmid in Bakersfield Mist in the West End.

Ms. Turner has expanded her repertoire with the development of her first cabaret performance, Finding My Voice, which debuted in Philadelphia in 2017, followed by a run in London at The Other Palace Theatre, a tour in the UK, and an engagement at the legendary Cafe Carlyle in New York City. In the literary realm, her books include Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles and Kathleen Turner on Acting. She is also a director and activist – particularly for women’s health – and finds it rewarding to teach master classes. This summer, she appeared in A Little Night Music at Ogunquit Playhouse and is currently teaching as a Professor of Acting at Pace University.