Guinevere
Turner (Amanda)
GUINEVERE TURNER
started her film career in 1992 as co-writer, producer and
star of Go Fish, an independent feature executive produced
by Christine Vachon and Tom Kalin. The film premiered in dramatic
competition at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival. Turner's next
project was a role in Cheryl Dunye's controversial Watermelon
Woman, which Alec Baldwin defended in his much-publicized
fight to protect funding for the NEA.
Turner has subsequently appeared
in films as diverse and Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy and Dogma,
Latin Boys Go To Hell, and Kiss Me, Guido. In 1995 she portrayed
an American dominatrix in Preaching to the Perverted from
BAFTA-winning director Stuart Urban. Her credits also include
Scott King's Treasure Island, which was honored for distinctive
creative vision at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Most recently,
Turner has supporting roles in Wash Westmoreland's The Fluffer
and John Walsh's Pipe Dream. She stars in the film Stray Dogs,
a debut from director Catherine Crouch, which will screen
at New York's New Festival this summer; she is also the voice
of a doll in Rose Troche's upcoming feature The Safety of
Objects.
Turner collaborated with director
Mary Harron on the adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' American
Psycho in which she also has a role. She also collaborated
with Harron on a script about pinup legend Bettie Page, to
be produced by Christine Vachon, directed by Harron, and starring
Turner.
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