Guinevere Turner

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Guinevere Turner (2006)

Guinevere Turner (born May 23, 1968 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American actress and screenwriter .

Cinematic creation

Turner, who lives openly as a lesbian, wrote screenplays for the US lesbian series The L Word and the film Go Fish (1994), in which she also acted , together with her former partner Rose Troche . Go Fish has received numerous international awards, including the Teddy Award from the Berlin Film Festival and the Lambda Literary Award in the Drama category .

1997 Turner played in the British BDSM / fetish comedy Preaching to the Perverted from New York City native Domina Tanya Cheex . In films such as Chasing Amy (1997) and Dogma (1998) Turner worked with the American screenwriter and actor Kevin Smith , with whom she has been friends for many years. With these films, she also became known to a wider audience outside of the United States.

Together with director Mary Harron , she wrote the adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho (2000) and the screenplay for The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), a biography of the 1950s pin-up legend Bettie Page . Turner also developed the script for the film adaptation of the computer game BloodRayne by Uwe Boll in 2005.

Private life

Turner and Rose Troche met in the early 1990s in Chicago each other where Troche the UIC - film school attended and especially a series of short films produced. The two became a couple, but separated again in 1993. Turner was temporarily in a relationship with actress Portia de Rossi .

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Guinevere Turner  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Patricia Juliana Smith: Troche, Rose (b. 1964). ( Memento from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on glbtq.com.
  2. ↑ Axel Schock , Karen-Susan Fessel : Out! 800 famous lesbian, gay and bisexuals. 5th edition, Querverlag , Berlin 2004. p. 276. (entry Troche, Rose)
  3. ↑ Antonio Gonzalez Cerna: 8th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. In: Lambda Literary. July 15, 1996, accessed March 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Axel Schock , Karen-Susan Fessel : Out! 800 famous lesbian, gay and bisexuals. 5th edition, Querverlag , Berlin 2004. pp. 277/278, here p. 278.
personal data
SURNAME Turner, Guinevere
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turner, Guin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts , United States