News: Janine Turner
Janine Turner is an American Emmy-nominated actress, most widely known for her starring role on the prime time television show Northern Exposure.
Actress Janine Turner was trained at New York’s Professional Children’s School.
Janine Turner was born into a lineage of Texans.
An attractive leading player of the small screen, Janine Turner won fans and fame as the intelligent, down-to-earth, but unlucky in love Alaskan pilot Maggie O’Connell in the quirky CBS comedy-drama “Northern Exposure”.
Janine subsequently made her film debut in the daytime parody Young Doctors in Love that featured her along with other soap stars in cameos.
Legend has it that her family on her paternal side traveled to Texas via the Trail of Tears through Tennessee.
Her father is from East Texas, while her mother is from South Texas.
The younger of two children, she grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and trained, while a child, in ballet, tap, theater, and modeling.
Janine Turner is an American actress, known for her starring role on General Hospital from 1982 to 1983 and the prime time television show Northern Exposure from 1990 to 1995.
Her college days were cut short, however, when she won the coveted role of Shavuan Tillman in the Dino De Laurentiis film, Tai-Pan, based on the James Clavell novel and co-starring Bryan Brown.
It was from New York City that Janine booked roles in the movies, Monkey Shines, Steel Magnolias and The Ambulance.
At the age of fifteen Janine went to New York City to dance for the summer and attend Broadway Musicals.
After her breakthrough in Northern Exposure, Turner appeared in the big budget action film Cliffhanger, opposite Sylvester Stallone.
In 1990, Turner was cast as fiesty Alaskan mail pilot Maggie O’Connell on the quirky prime-time series “Northern Exposure,” a role that made her a major star.
Turner at the Governor’s Ball after the 1992 Emmy Awards.
Her father is from East Texas and her mother is from South Texas.
After her breakthrough in Northern Exposure, she appeared in the big budget action film Cliffhanger starring Sylvester Stallone.
This led to a Hollywood attempt at age 17 and a major TV break two years later when she won the role of Laura Templeton on TV’s popular daytime soap “General Hospital” , a role that required her long tresses to go from brunette to blonde.
In 2008, Turner became a published author when Thomas Nelson released Holding Her Head High: Inspiration from 12 Single Mothers Who Championed Their Children and Changed History.
After some commercial work, however, she returned to school in Texas and happened by chance to find some minor work on various episodes of “Dallas”.
