Early life
Born Mary Kathleen Turner inside Springfield, Missouri, the daughter of diplomat Richard Turner, she had sleep in quadruplet foreign countries per instance she entered college. She has ii brothers & the sister. She was the gymnast as a teenager. When attending senior high school inside London, she also took classes at a Central School of Speech and Drama. While her father died inside 1973, the personal draw back to Springfield.

Career
She attended Southwest Missouri State University at Springfield for two years, so gained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from either a University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1977. Within 1978 Turner was hired as a 2nd Nola Turner in NBC daytime soap The Doctors, but was fired a next season because a producers felt she was "not hot enough". Turner experienced the go laugh when she became a film star two or three years late inside Body Heat, which many assume one of a sexiest films (by using Turner rendering one of a sexiest performances) in the history of cinema. Turner remained a movie star as much as the early 1990s, but has since seldom appeared around major productions.

Additionally to the televisiin operate enrolled above, she has too appeared as a guest on Friends (as a transvestite father of Chandler Bing), King of the Hill (voice), The Simpsons (voice), and Saturday Night Live, which she hosted twice.

Inside 2000 Turner starred as Mrs Robinson in the London revival of The Graduate. Within March 2005, she starred, with Bill Irwin, as Marththe around a revival of Edward Albee's ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway.

Awards
She was nominated for an Oscar for best actress around 1987 for her role in Peggy Sue Got Married. She received ii Golden World awards, each for Right Performance by an Actress inside the Motion Picture, for Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi's Honor (1985).

Personal life
Turner married Up to date York real-estate mogul Jay Weiss inside 1984. It have a girl, Rachel Ann Weiss, natural 1988. Turner was diagnosed by having rheumatoid arthritis in 1992. Around 2005, Weiss & Turner announced it were ending their marriage.

Filmography
Body Heat (1981) The Man with Two Brains (1983) A Breed Apart (1984) Romancing the Stone (1984) Crimes of Passion (1984) Prizzi's Honor (1985) The Jewel of the Nile (1985) GoBots: War of the Rock Lords (1986) (voice) Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) Julia and Julia (1987) Switching Channels (1988) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (voice) The Accidental Tourist (1988) Tummy Trouble (1989) (short subject) (voice) The War of the Roses (1989) Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990) (short subject) (voice) V.I. Warshawski (1991) A Day at a Time (1992) (documentary) (teller) Naked in New York (1992) Trail Mix-Up (1993) (short subject) (voice) House of Cards (1993) Undercover Blues (1993) Serial Mom (1994) Moonlight and Valentino (1995) Bad Baby (1997) (voice) A Simple Wish (1997) The Real Blonde (1997) Baby Geniuses (1999) The Virgin Suicides (1999) Beautiful (2000) Prince of Central Park (2000) Without Love (2004) Last of the Wild Chimps (2004) (short subject) (narrator) Monster House'' (2006) (currently within post-production)