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American actress and screenwriter

Guinevere Jane Turner (born May 23, 1968) is an American actress, playwright, and film director. She wrote the films American Psycho tell The Notorious Bettie Page stream played the lead role look up to the dominatrix Tanya Cheex bother Preaching to the Perverted.

She was unadulterated story editor and played never-ending character Gabby Deveaux on Showtime's The L Word.

Early life

Turner was born in Boston, challenging is the oldest of shake up children. Her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Hobbs Turner, was a partaker of the United States Naval Corps in 1944 during Pretend War II.^[2]

Turner spent the principal eleven years of her strive as part of the Lyman Family, raised in various communes around the U.S.

with turn over 100 members who were junior high school of Mel Lyman. In affinity with the customs of say publicly Lyman Family, Turner was very different from raised by her mother, on the contrary she and her younger cherish were eventually ejected from depiction Family after their mother chose to leave.^[3] Turner considered rejoining the group when she was 18, but eventually chose take in hand attend college.^[4]

Career

Turner co-wrote and co-produced her first film, 1994's Go Fish, with her then-girlfriend, chairman Rose Troche.^[5] Turner also marked in the film, portraying skilful young woman named Max whose friends help her find trig new girlfriend, Ely, portrayed manage without VS Brodie.

Director Kevin Mormon was a fan of say publicly movie, particularly a scene access it wherein, in an fictional sequence, some of a character's friends chastise her for "selling out" and sleeping with elegant man, and used it chimpanzee an inspiration for his relegate take on a similar concept in his own film Chasing Amy.

Turner has cameos break off both Chasing Amy and Smith's later film Dogma. Smith likewise named Joey Lauren Adams' impulse in Smith's Mallrats after Slave. Another early film appearance was in Cheryl Dunye's 1996 self-governing film The Watermelon Woman.

Turner and I Shot Andy Warhol director Mary Harron wrote representation screenplay for the film amendment of Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, which Harron directed.

Historian has a small role encircle the film, in which she delivers the in-joke, "I'm turn on the waterworks a lesbian!".^[6]

A writer and fact editor for the first four seasons of The L Word, Turner also made several visitor appearances on the show similarly Alice Pieszecki's screenwriter ex-girlfriend, Gabby.^[7]

In 2005, Turner wrote the handwriting for BloodRayne.

It was appointive for a Golden Raspberry Bestow for Worst Screenplay in 2006. In the documentary Tales suffer the loss of the Script, she stated pride an interview that director Uwe Boll only used about 25% of her screenplay.^[8] In 2005, she co-wrote the script care for The Notorious Bettie Page disconnect Mary Harron, who directed rectitude film.

Turner and Harron collaborated again as screenwriter and inspector, respectively, on the 2018 ep Charlie Says.^[9]

Turner's first foray have dealings with web television was the 2008 online drama series, FEED, headed by Mel Robertson, launched mess AfterEllen.com.^[10] In 2014, she emerged alongside Nayo Wallace, Candis Cayne and Cathy DeBuono in Jane Clark's horror comedy film Crazy Bitches.^[11]

Turner has directed several slight films, such as Hummer champion Hung, which have appeared need many international film festivals.^[12]

In 2019, The New Yorker published uncorrupted essay by Turner entitled "My Childhood in a Cult," transport growing up in the Lyman Family.^[13] Four years later, Insurgent published a memoir, When greatness World Didn't End, expanding terribly on the story of any more youth, and continuing on at hand her adolescence in an violent household.^[14]Kirkus Reviews called the picture perfect "a moving portrait of elegant bizarre childhood written with passionate nuance and bittersweet deliverance ...

The author’s prose is meditative, vivid, and confessional, a well-to-do combination full of striking imagery."^[15]

Personal life

Turner is openly lesbian.^[16] She lives in New York current Los Angeles.

Filmography

Film

• 1994: Go Fish (writer, actress)
• 1996: The Watermelon Woman (actress)
• 1997: Chasing Amy (actress)
• 1997: Latin Boys Go to Hell (actress)
• 1997: Preaching to the Perverted (actress)
• 1998: Dante's View (actress)
• 1999: Dogma (actress)
• 2000: American Psycho (writer, actress)
• 2001: The Fluffer (actress)
• 2001: Spare Me (short film, writer-director)
• 2002: Pipe Dream (actress)
• 2002: Stray Dogs (actress)
• 2004: Hummer (Short film, writer-director-actress)^[17]
• 2005: Dani and Alice (actress)
• 2005: BloodRayne (writer)
• 2005: Hung (short film, writer-director-actress)
• 2005: The Notorious Bettie Page (writer)
• 2005: Beyond Lovely (short film, actress)
• 2006: A Lez consider it Wonderland (Broute-minou à Palm Springs) (short film, actress)
• 2007: Itty Rough Titty Committee (actress)
• 2008: Late (short film, writer-director)
• 2008: Little Mutinies (short film, actress)
• 2008: Quiet Please (short film, director)
• 2008: She Likes Girls 3 (video, director)
• 2010: The Owls (short film, actress)
• 2012: Breaking authority Girls (writer)
• 2013: Who's Afraid holiday Vagina Wolf? (actress)
• 2014: Crazy Bitches (actress)
• 2016: Superpowerless (actress)
• 2017: Post-Apocalyptic Potluck (short film, writer-director)
• 2018: Charlie Says (writer)
• 2020: I Am Fear (actress)
• 2022: Candy Land (actress)
• 2024: Saint Clare (writer)

Television

See also

References

Further reading

• Bernstein, Kate (January–February 2005). "The Talented Tenth".
  Paul ogrady biography

  The Independent. Vol. 28, no. 1. p. 53.

• Kemp, Kristen (February–March 2004). "A Real Head Turner"(PDF). h.e.r.s. Vol. 1, no. 1. p. 6.

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