Kathleen Turner graced the red carpet on Thursday evening in New York City – after almost 50 years in showbusiness.
The 68-year-old veteran Hollywood actress – who was in the 1984 classic adventure film Romancing The Stone as well as 1994’s campy hit Serial Mom – was stylish in an all black outfit that consisted of a long-sleeved turtleneck top and loose slacks.
Her trademark golden hair was parted on the side and worn shoulder length as she was beautifully made up in plum tones.
The award-winning thespian was posing at the opening night after party for Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of the one-act play End Game from writer Samuel Beckett about a blind man and his parents who live in a shack.
The event was held at the Merchants New York.
Party time in Manhattan: Kathleen Turner hit the red carpet for the after party of the one-act play End Game in NYC on Thursday evening
Happy to be there: The 68-year-old veteran Hollywood actress – was in the 1984 classic Romancing The Stone as well as 1994’s campy hit Serial Mom
Kathleen was smart to wear comfortable blue lace up sneakers for the party.
The actress with a resume that dates back to the 1970s was the belle of the night as she posed alone and also with several friends at the party.
The acting legend cozied up to 72-year-old comedian and professional clown Bill Irwin – best known for his work on Elmo’s World – as they mugged for the camera at the exclusive fete.
Turner – whose full name is Mary Kathleen Turner – was a major movie star in the 1980s and 1990s.
She has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award.
Later in her career she turned to stage work in New York, for which she won two Tony Awards.
Sneakers are a must: Kathleen was smart to wear comfortable blue sneakers for the party
Her hair should have its own SAG card: Her trademark golden hair was parted on the side and worn shoulder length as she was beautifully made up in plum tones
Fun times with a friend: The acting legend cozied up to 72-year-old comedian and professional clown Bill Irwin as they mugged for the camera at the exclusive fete
Catching up: He has worked on Elmo’s World as a clown and was in My Blue Heaven
She is a New Yorker now: The Missouri born beauty has been living in Manhattan for decades as she works on theater
This comes after she talked Michael Douglas in 2021.
The Undercover Blues star said she had a crush on the iconic actor who is wed to Catherine Zeta-Jones, with whom he has two children: Dylan and Carys.
Kathleen said that she took to her frequent costar though they never had a romance.
Turner made three films with Douglas: Romancing the Stone, The Jewel In The Nile and The War Of The Roses.
They are still close friends after 40 years.
She told Closer magazine two years ago there was ‘hope for’ something romantic between them at one point.
She was a fan: This comes after she talked Michael Douglas in 2021. The Undercover Blues star said she had a crush on the iconic actor who is wed to Catherine Zeta-Jones, with whom he has two children: Dylan and Carys
They had heat: She said that she took to her frequent costar though they never had a romance. Turner made three films with him: Romancing the Stone, The Jewel In The Nile and The War Of The Roses
Turner said: ‘I was yearning, but he was still married to [to his first wife Diandra Luker]… although they were separated, and so I thought there was hope for me.’
He was wed to Diandra from 1977 until 2000.
Douglas is now 78 and has been wed to Zeta-Jones since 2000.
In the same Closer interview, Kathleen said that she was not as fond of 70s hunk Burt Reynolds.
Turner spilled on the ‘shocking’ sexism – which made her cry – she experienced from her Switching Channels co-star Reynolds.
She said: ‘Working with Burt was terrible. The first day Burt came in he made me cry. He said something about not taking second place to a woman.
‘His behavior was shocking. It never occurred to me that I wasn’t someone’s equal.’
And she touched on her ex-husband Jay Weiss whom she said was her ‘best friend’.
The Virgin Suicides star is still on good terms with the real estate investor – who is father to her daughter, 36-year-old singer Rachel Ann Weiss – who she divorced in 2007 after tying the knot in 1984, a total of 23 years of marriage.
Kathleen insists she still has strong feelings for him, despite the fact they are no longer in a romantic relationship.
Another monster hit: She played the duplicitous schemer opposite William Hurt’s dimwit in the film Body Heat written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan
She smoldered in this film: The star had a very film noir gun moll feel to her as she seduced her befuddled target
For the 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me feature for American publication Closer, the actress said: ‘We’re divorced but he’s still my best friend. I don’t think that if you love someone that love ever goes away.’
In 2019 she shared that she was ‘ageing rather well’.
The actress insisted she doesn’t want to ‘be a Cher, where her face never changes or moves’ and would never get Botox or plastic surgery to turn the clocks back.
She said: ‘Faye Dunaway once told me that if I did not start plastic surgery by the time I was 40 it would be too late. And I said, ‘Well fine, I won’t do it then.’ I don’t want to be a Cher, where my face never changes or moves. At the moment I think I’m ageing rather well.’
And the star feels lucky she was only considered to be a sex symbol ‘for a while’.
Another hit film with William Hurt: Turner also starred with the bet in 1988’s The Accidental Tourist
She added: ‘I was considered a sex symbol only for a while. I fought my way out of it very quickly. The power of my attractiveness for years was indeed an asset. But that did not control my choices at all.’
And Kathleen is disappointed she is not taken as seriously as her male counterparts are.
She explained to the Daily Mirror newspaper: ‘Some of my stories have dimmed. I’ve sometimes felt invisible but I think that’s not limited to being an actress. A lot of older women feel that. We’re not taken as seriously as many men.
‘But I have found, in a way, it’s mostly exciting. I love teaching. I do master classes in universities. And I love directing.
‘This past year doing a full-length cabaret for the first time was a whole new area to explore. There will come a time when I may not physically be able to do eight shows a week. Fine. I will teach more. Write more books.’
Her very early days of fame: She is seen here in her twenties as she wore black and white to a premiere