Janine Turner
Name: Janine Turner
Birthday: 12/6/62(44)
Country: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
Father: Turner Gauntt
Mother: Janice Gauntt
Brother: Tim (4 years older than Janine)
Janine Turner played Dana Stowe, M.D., a Harvard-educated surgeon directing research studies at Rittenhouse Hospital. In season three, episode six, after unsuccessfully trying to become pregnant, Dana makes a life-changing move. She adopts two young girls, one them an HIV-positive infant. She bids farewell to her beloved colleagues at Rittenhouse to move back to Virginia with her new family and start a new life.
Turner is probably best known for her role as Maggie O’Connell in the Emmy Award-winning CBS series, “Northern Exposure.” In addition to starring in the CBS dramatic love story, Barbara Taylor Bradford’s “A Secret Affair,” Turner starred opposite Jamie Sheridan and Hal Holbrook in the CBS telefilm, “Beauty.” She also starred in “Stolen Women” for CBS and “Circle of Deceit” for ABC. Continuing to model in New York, she also attended the Professional Children’s School, and only a year later, back in Texas, landed a recurring role on the hit television series, “Dallas,” portraying Lucy Ewing’s best friend. It was then that Turner made the decision to graduate from high school a year early, give up modeling and move to Los Angeles in order to pursue her acting career.
New to Los Angeles, she landed a starring role on the late night soap “Behind the Screen,” spent a year on the long-running “General Hospital” as Laura Templeton, and appeared in the feature film, “Young Doctors in Love.” After leaving “General Hospital,” Turner traveled to China for ten weeks for a co-starring role in Dino DeLaurentis’ “Tai-Pan,” and upon completion of the film, moved back to New York City to continue her theatrical studies. During a season-long hiatus from “Northern Exposure,” Turner flew to the Italian Alps for a starring role opposite Sylvester Stallone in Columbia TriStar Pictures’ international blockbuster, “Cliffhanger.” Additional film credits include a starring role in “Curse of the Inferno” and Universal’s “Leave It to Beaver,” in which she played June Cleaver. She most recently starred in the Robert Altman feature film “Dr. T and the Women.”
Turner then returned to television with a co-starring role in the hit CBS series, “Northern Exposure.” After years of study in the New York theatre scene, she made the decision to leave her “pampered beauty” roles from the soap opera world and “Steel Magnolias” behind in order to play the strong and independent Maggie O’Connell, for which she received an Emmy nomination and three Golden Globe nominations for best actress in a drama series. Turner has been named one of People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People,” US Magazine’s “10 Sexiest Women,” and Esquire Magazine’s “Women We Love.” In 1992, she received the Women at Work Award from the National Commission on Working Women.
Country: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
Father: Turner Gauntt
Mother: Janice Gauntt
Brother: Tim (4 years older than Janine)
Janine Turner played Dana Stowe, M.D., a Harvard-educated surgeon directing research studies at Rittenhouse Hospital. In season three, episode six, after unsuccessfully trying to become pregnant, Dana makes a life-changing move. She adopts two young girls, one them an HIV-positive infant. She bids farewell to her beloved colleagues at Rittenhouse to move back to Virginia with her new family and start a new life.
Turner is probably best known for her role as Maggie O’Connell in the Emmy Award-winning CBS series, “Northern Exposure.” In addition to starring in the CBS dramatic love story, Barbara Taylor Bradford’s “A Secret Affair,” Turner starred opposite Jamie Sheridan and Hal Holbrook in the CBS telefilm, “Beauty.” She also starred in “Stolen Women” for CBS and “Circle of Deceit” for ABC. Continuing to model in New York, she also attended the Professional Children’s School, and only a year later, back in Texas, landed a recurring role on the hit television series, “Dallas,” portraying Lucy Ewing’s best friend. It was then that Turner made the decision to graduate from high school a year early, give up modeling and move to Los Angeles in order to pursue her acting career.
New to Los Angeles, she landed a starring role on the late night soap “Behind the Screen,” spent a year on the long-running “General Hospital” as Laura Templeton, and appeared in the feature film, “Young Doctors in Love.” After leaving “General Hospital,” Turner traveled to China for ten weeks for a co-starring role in Dino DeLaurentis’ “Tai-Pan,” and upon completion of the film, moved back to New York City to continue her theatrical studies. During a season-long hiatus from “Northern Exposure,” Turner flew to the Italian Alps for a starring role opposite Sylvester Stallone in Columbia TriStar Pictures’ international blockbuster, “Cliffhanger.” Additional film credits include a starring role in “Curse of the Inferno” and Universal’s “Leave It to Beaver,” in which she played June Cleaver. She most recently starred in the Robert Altman feature film “Dr. T and the Women.”
Turner then returned to television with a co-starring role in the hit CBS series, “Northern Exposure.” After years of study in the New York theatre scene, she made the decision to leave her “pampered beauty” roles from the soap opera world and “Steel Magnolias” behind in order to play the strong and independent Maggie O’Connell, for which she received an Emmy nomination and three Golden Globe nominations for best actress in a drama series. Turner has been named one of People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People,” US Magazine’s “10 Sexiest Women,” and Esquire Magazine’s “Women We Love.” In 1992, she received the Women at Work Award from the National Commission on Working Women.
She is not the best hand-holder. She's just the best. Dr. Dana Stowe is a pioneer in medical research for women's health. The daughter of a doctor and Nobel Prize nominee, Dana strives to live up to her family's prestigious reputation by finding a cure for breast cancer. And she's on her way.
At Rittenhouse Hospital, she has become one of the nation's most prominent women's health experts. Dana is a stickler for rules, which constantly brings her into conflict with her freewheeling counterpart, Dr. Luisa Delgado. And though her career is her first love she is wistful for someone to share and appreciate her work and life.
posted by Jennifer Phua at 11:02 PM
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One of our local tv stations recently started carrying Strong Medicine, and I got hooked. Janine Turner was very convincing in her role. She is blessed with great acting talent along with not just a beautiful face, but a face that could play the role of a very God-fearing, serene person. I hope someone comes into her life to make it complete.
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