Somewhat resembles Lauren Bacall (looks and voice).

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars" in film history (#73). [1995]

Ranked #1 in Fotogramas magazine's "Favourite Foreign Actress." poll [1987].

Was nominated for Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for portraying Maggie the Cat in a revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

Daughter Rachel Ann Weiss born October 14, 1987.

Was nominated for Broadway's 2005 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play for portraying Martha in the 2005 revival of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

London Evening Standard Theatre Award 2006 for her performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

Sister-in-law of fashion designer Donna Karan.

Referenced by Jack Black in High Fidelity (2000). He says that his band's name is very close to being called "Kathleen Turner Overdrive".

Also attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

Her father, Richard, was a foreign service diplomat who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WWII.

She recieved a lifetime achievement award from the Savannah College of Art and Design at the Savannah Film Festival in October 2004.

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004

Ranked #1 in Fotogramas magazine`s "Favourite Foreign Actress." poll [1988].

She discovered she had developed rheumatoid arthritis during shooting Serial Mom (1994).

Has one eye that`s blue and one eye that`s hazel.

Fluent in Spanish.

Checked herself into Marworth in Waverly, Pennsylvania, for alcohol abuse. [3 December 1999]

Upon meeting the legendary Lauren Bacall, to whom she has often been compared, she reportedly introduced herself by saying, "Hi, I`m the young you."

Was considered for the lead in Basic Instinct (1992).

Spoke the voice (uncredited) of sexy Jessica Rabbit in the toon-noir Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

She performed some of her own stunts in Romancing the Stone (1984), Undercover Blues (1993) and V.I. Warshawski (1991). Her nose was broken while filming V.I. Warshawski (1991).

Was immortalized in the 1980s song, "The Kiss of Kathleen Turner," by techno-pop singer Falco.

Suffers from rheumatoid arthritis.

Education: Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri; transferred after two years University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland; B.F.A., 1977.