The actress Kathleen Turner has just completed playing Martha in the London revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She has been fighting rheumatoid arthritis since 1992 and says: “The disease won’t kill you, but it will kill your life if you let it, and that I will not allow.” She loves coming to England where she did some of her acting training and has appeared at Chichester as Tallulah Bankhead, and played Mrs Robinson in The Graduate. Her films include Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi’s Honour (1985). About growing older she says: “When I was 20 I had so many insecurities and looked for approbation from everyone. But by the time I was 40 and now 50, you wake up and think, I don’t have to prove myself anymore, and that makes you sexy.” Kathleen Turner is 52 today.
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