Kathleen Turner

It's such a sad story because I grew up in the 80s and she was a mega movie star back then. That voice, the sex appeal, the fact she was such a versatile actress, from action to comedy to drama, she was accomplished in everything. I loved her performances in Peggy Sue Got Married and The War of the Roses, so good in those movies.

Then she got sick and the medication she needed to take care of her health made her gain a lot of weight which meant she was no longer "hot" and the roles evaporated. She did a couple of decent movies, best being Serial Mom and The Virgin Suicides as well as a successful run on the West End with The Graduate but her hey day was over.

It always surprises me how you can be huge in one year and then a nobody the next. Katherine Heigl is another example, she was the Julia Roberts of the 2000s, then she got mouthy, she was over.

All I have to say is that voice she had is enough to keep you entranced. I always liked watching her in movies, I even liked the bad ones she made or the smaller parts she got.

One movie I truly liked was "Giulia and Giulia", nobody watched that movie but it's a fascinating film about a woman who lost her husband in a accident after the wedding. Years later, she finds herself entering an alternate Universe where her husband never died and they had a child and she's hellbent in keeping that reality. Or is everything she's experienced a delusion she has created in her mind? An absolutely spellbinding thriller.

Turner has also given us some classic performances: Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married (deservedly nominated), The War of the Roses, Romancing the Stone, The Accidental Tourist, Serial Mom...etc.

She could play the sexy femme fatale but also had a knack for comedy. She had everything, but then she got ill and medication made her balloon. From then on, her career changed. It's sad because I think the Movie world had a modern day Carole Lombard and I still think Turner never got to continue her career the way she deserved to.