12 Facts About Guinevere Turner

Guinevere Jane Turner was born on May 23,1968 and is an American actress, screenwriter, and film director.

Guinevere Turner wrote the films American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page and played the lead role of the dominatrix Tanya Cheex in Preaching to the Perverted.

Guinevere Turner was a story editor and played recurring character Gabby Deveaux on Showtime's The L Word.

Guinevere Turner's maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Hobbs Turner, was a member of the United States Marine Corps in 1944 during World War II.

Guinevere Turner spent the first eleven years of her life as part of the Lyman Family, raised in various communes around the US with over 100 members who were devotees of Mel Lyman.

Guinevere Turner considered rejoining the group when she was 18, but eventually chose to attend college.

Guinevere Turner co-wrote and co-produced her first film, 1994's Go Fish, with her then-girlfriend, director Rose Troche.

Guinevere Turner starred in the film, portraying a young woman named Max whose friends help her find a new girlfriend, Ely, portrayed by VS Brodie.

Guinevere Turner has cameos in both Chasing Amy and Smith's later film Dogma.

Guinevere Turner has directed several short films, such as Hummer and Hung, which have appeared in many international film festivals.

In 2019, The New Yorker published an essay by Guinevere Turner entitled "My Childhood in a Cult," about growing up in the Lyman Family.

Four years later, Guinevere Turner published a memoir, When the World Didn't End, expanding greatly on the story of her youth, and continuing on to her adolescence in an abusive household.