Trivia
- Kathleen lived with her foreign-diplomat father and family in Canada, Cuba, Venezuela, England and Washington DC (before reaching the age of 17).
- Kathleen's nose was broken while filming V.I. Warshawski (1991)
- Kathleen attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
- Kathleen was nominated for Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play for portraying Maggie the Cat in a revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
- Kathleen Astrological sign is Gemini.
- Kathleen was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004.
- Kathleen's father's name was Allen Richard Turner.
- Kathleen was married to New York real-estate mogul Jay Weiss from 1984–2005.
- Kathleen lived with agent David Guc from 1977–1982.
- Kathleen won the L.A. Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress for Ken Russell's Crimes of Passion.
- Kathleen received two Golden Globe awards, both for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture for Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor.
- Kathleen was nominated for an Oscar for best actress in 1987 for her role in Peggy Sue Got Married.
- Kathleen was a gymnast as a teenager.
- Kathleen has two brothers and a sister.
- Kathleen's daughter Rachel Ann Weiss was born October 14 th 1987
- Kathleen's trade mark is her husky voice.
- Kathleen's father, Richard, was a foreign service diplomat who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WWII.
- Kathleen checked herself into Marworth in Waverly, Pennsylvania for alcohol abuse (December 3 rd 1999).
- Kathleen recieved a lifetime achievement award from the Savannah College of Art and Design at the Savannah Film Festival in October 2004.
- Kathleen was immortalized in the 1980s song, The Kiss of Kathleen Turner by Falco.
- Kathleen was chosen by Empire magazine in 1995 as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#73).
- Kathleen suffers from rheumatoid arthritis.
- Kathleen spoke the voice of Jessica Rabbit in the toon-noir Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (uncredited)
- Kathleen is fluent in Spanish.
Quotes
- Kathleen Turner: There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.
- Kathleen Tuner: Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
- Kathleen Turner: I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.
