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Guinevere Jane Turner
May 23, 1968 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
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| Years active | 1994–present |
Guinevere Jane Turner (born May 23, 1968) is an American actress, writer, and film director. She has written screenplays for movies like American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page. She also acted in films such as Go Fish. On TV, she was a writer and played a character named Gabby Deveaux on the show The L Word.
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Early Life and Childhood
Turner was born in Boston, a city in Massachusetts. She is the oldest of six children in her family. Her grandmother, Elizabeth Hobbs Turner, was part of the United States Marine Corps during World War II in 1944.
For the first eleven years of her life, Guinevere lived in different communities across the U.S. These communities were part of a group called the Lyman Family. Over 100 people were in this group, and they followed the ideas of Mel Lyman. They even believed they would one day live on the planet Venus. Guinevere was not raised by her mother, which was a custom in the Lyman Family. She and her younger sister left the group after their mother decided to leave. When she was 18, Guinevere thought about rejoining the group. However, she chose to go to college instead.
Career in Film and TV
Guinevere Turner started her career in film in 1994. She helped write and produce her first movie, Go Fish. She worked on this film with her girlfriend at the time, director Rose Troche. Guinevere also starred in Go Fish. She played a young woman named Max. Max's friends help her find a new girlfriend named Ely.
Filmmaker Kevin Smith liked Go Fish a lot. He was especially inspired by a scene in the movie. Guinevere Turner later appeared in two of Kevin Smith's films. She had small roles in Chasing Amy and Dogma. Another early film she appeared in was The Watermelon Woman in 1996.
Guinevere Turner worked with director Mary Harron to write the movie script for American Psycho. Mary Harron directed the film. Guinevere also had a small role in this movie. They worked together again on the 2018 film Charlie Says.
Turner was a writer and story editor for the first two seasons of the TV show The L Word. She also appeared on the show several times. She played Gabby, who was a screenwriter and an ex-girlfriend of the character Alice Pieszecki.
In 2005, Guinevere Turner wrote the script for the movie BloodRayne. She also co-wrote the script for The Notorious Bettie Page in 2005 with Mary Harron.
Guinevere Turner also started working in web television. In 2008, she launched an online drama series called FEED. She has also directed several short films. These short films include Hummer and Hung. Her short films have been shown at many film festivals around the world.
In 2019, Guinevere wrote an essay for The New Yorker magazine. It was called "My Childhood in a Cult." This essay was about growing up in the Lyman Family. Four years later, she wrote a book about her life. The book is called When the World Didn't End. It tells more about her childhood and teenage years.
Personal Life
Guinevere Turner lives in both New York and 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)
- 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)
- 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 in Wonderland (Broute-minou à Palm Springs) (short film, actress)
- 2007: Itty Bitty 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 the Girls (writer)
- 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
- 2004–2005: The L Word (TV series, writer)
- 2016: Sugar (web series, director, episode: Chapter 5)
See also
- List of female film and television directors
- List of lesbian filmmakers
- List of LGBT-related films directed by women
