Guinevere Turner Biography
Guinevere Jane Turner is an American actress and screenwriter. She has written such films as American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page and played the lead role of the dominatrix Tanya Cheex in Preaching to the Perverted.
Guinevere Turner Age
Turner was born on May 23, 1968, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Guinevere Turner Mother|Family
Turner was born in Boston and is the oldest of six children. She has three brothers and two sisters. She is also an aunt to one niece and two nephews. Her paternal grandmother Elizabeth Hobbs Turner belonged to the United States Marine Corps in 1944 during World War II.
Turner spent the first 11 years of her life as part of the Lyman Family, raised in various communes around the U.S. with over 100 members who were devotees of Mel Lyman and who believed they would eventually live on Venus. Though Turner acknowledged that the Lyman Family had been portrayed as a cult she argued against using the word to describe them.
In accordance with the customs of the Lyman Family, Turner was not raised by her mother but she and her younger sister were eventually ejected from the Family after their mother chose to leave. Turner considered rejoining the group when she was 18 but eventually chose to attend college instead of in part because of the deeply misogynistic and sexist attitudes of the group.
Guinevere Turner Partner|Tracy Chapman
Turner is in a long-term relationship with Tracy Chapman.
Guinevere Turner Net Worth
According to Wikipedia, Forbes & Various Online resource, Guinevere Turner’sestimated net worth Under Review.As of 2019, she has an estimated net worth ranging from $100k to 41 million US dollars.
Guinevere Turner Height
Turner is 1.58 m tall which goes well with her weight
Guinevere Turner Psycho
Turner and I Shot Andy Warhol director Mary Harron wrote a screenplay, which ended up being selected for the film version of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. She has a brief cameo in the film, in which she delivers the in-joke, I’m not a lesbian! (Turner is openly lesbian. There is also a line about attending Sarah Lawrence College, Turner’s real-life alma mater.
Guinevere Turner Go Fish
Turner emerged on the scene with the film Go Fish, which she co-wrote and co-produced with her then-girlfriend, Rose Troche. Turner also starred in the film, portraying a young woman named Max whose friends help her find a new girlfriend, Ely, portrayed by VS Brodie. Director Kevin Smith was a fan of the movie, particularly a scene in it wherein, in an imagined sequence, some of a character’s friends chastise her for selling out and sleeping with a man, and used it as an inspiration for his own take on a similar theme in his own film Chasing Amy.
Turner has cameos in both Chasing Amy and Smith’s later film Dogma; her name is used as that of Joey Lauren Adams’ character in Smith’s Mallrats. A writer and story editor for the first two seasons of The L Word, Turner also made several guest appearances on the show as Alice Pieszecki’s screenwriter ex-girlfriend, Gabby.
Guinevere Turner Bloodpayne
In 2005, Turner wrote the script for BloodRayne. It was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay in 2006. In the documentary Tales from the Script, she stated in an interview that director Uwe Boll only used about 25% of her screenplay. In 2005, she co-wrote the script for The Notorious Bettie Page with Mary Harron, who directed the film.
Turner’s first foray into web television is the 2008 online drama series, FEED, directed by Mel Robertston, launched on AfterEllen.com. In 2014 she appeared alongside Nayo Wallace, Candis Cayne and Cathy DeBuono in Jane Clark’s horror comedy film Crazy Bitches. Turner has directed several short films, such as The Hummer and Hung, which have appeared in many international film festivals.
Guinevere Turner Chasing Army
The third film in Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse series, Chasing Amy was a commercial as well as a critical success: Grossing over $12 million on a $250,000 budget, it garnered mostly positive reviews and won two Independent Spirit Awards. A sometimes charming, sometimes infuriating rom-com dressed up as a raunchy buddy comedy, Chasing Amy pushed the boundaries of sexual mores, pitted the casual (and sometimes not-so-casual) misogyny of comic book culture against budding male vulnerability, and tackled the complications of love and friendship in ways that deeply connected with a generation of almost-adults in the ’90s who were just figuring out how to grow up.
Twenty years after its release, Chasing Amy is “certainly not an important film for the gay community,” Smith told me, reflecting on its legacy. “It’s an important film for me.” Smith has said over the years that Chasing Amy was inspired by his producing partner’s crush on lesbian filmmaker Guinevere Turner, his brother being gay, and his relationship with the film’s star — various personal experiences thrown into a fictional blender. “It depicted dudes who were maybe on the verge of waking up, so to speak. But no, I think Chasing Amy is important only to me, at the end of the day.”
Guinevere Turner Books
She is the author of the Go Fish book
Guinevere Turner Movies
- Little Mutinies on YouTube
- 2010: The Owls
- 2012: Breaking the Girls
- 2013: Who’s Afraid of Vagina Wolf
- 2014: Crazy Bitches
- 2016: Superpowerless
- 2018: Charlie Says
- 1994: Go Fish (writer, actress)
- 1996: The Watermelon Woman
- 1997: Chasing Amy