Guinevere Jane Turner (born May 23, 1968) is an American actress,
screenwriter and film director. She has written such films as American
Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page and played the lead role of the
dominatrix Tanya Cheex in Preaching to the Perverted.Turner was born
in Boston, and is the oldest of six children. Her paternal
grandmother, Elizabeth Hobbs Turner, was a member of the United States
Marine Corps in 1944 during World War II.Turner spent the first eleven
years of her life as part of the Lyman Family, raised in various
communes around the U.S. with over 100 members who were devotees of
Mel Lyman and who believed they would eventually live on Venus. Though
Turner acknowledged that the Lyman Family had been portrayed as a cult
she argued against using the word to describe them. In accordance with
the customs of the Lyman Family, Turner was not raised by her mother,
but she and her younger sister were eventually ejected from the Family
after their mother chose to leave. Turner considered rejoining the
group when she was 18, but eventually chose to attend college.
screenwriter and film director. She has written such films as American
Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page and played the lead role of the
dominatrix Tanya Cheex in Preaching to the Perverted.Turner was born
in Boston, and is the oldest of six children. Her paternal
grandmother, Elizabeth Hobbs Turner, was a member of the United States
Marine Corps in 1944 during World War II.Turner spent the first eleven
years of her life as part of the Lyman Family, raised in various
communes around the U.S. with over 100 members who were devotees of
Mel Lyman and who believed they would eventually live on Venus. Though
Turner acknowledged that the Lyman Family had been portrayed as a cult
she argued against using the word to describe them. In accordance with
the customs of the Lyman Family, Turner was not raised by her mother,
but she and her younger sister were eventually ejected from the Family
after their mother chose to leave. Turner considered rejoining the
group when she was 18, but eventually chose to attend college.
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