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Kathleen Turner
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Actor Born: June 19, 1954 in Springfield, MO Biography:Though she came to prominence in the 1980s, "Kathleen Turner", with her blend of raw sexuality, beauty, intelligence, and drive, could give golden age-sirens like "Lana Turner" and "Ava Gardner" a run for their money. After years of working as a relative unknown in way-off-Broadway productions and in the television soap opera The Doctors, "Turner" burst onto the movie scene in a star-making blaze when she was cast as femme fatale Matty opposite "William Hurt" in "Lawrence Kasdan"'s neo-noir thriller "Body Heat" (1981). She continued to wreak havoc on the opposite sex throughout the decade, appearing in a variety of popular movies that ranged from drama to lighthearted adventure to jet-black comedy.
The daughter of a U.S. ambassador, "Turner" experienced a peripatetic upbringing in a fiercely competitive environment. Living in Canada, Cuba, Washington, D.C., Venezuela, and England, she learned to... Full Biography
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