Guinevere Turner (May 23, 1968) is an
American actress, writer and director. She was born in
Boston, Massachusetts. She is best known as the screenwriter of such films as
American Psycho and
The Notorious Bettie Page.
Works
Guinevere Turner and
I Shot Andy Warhol director
Mary Harron wrote the screenplay which ended up being selected for the
film version of
Bret Easton Ellis'
American Psycho. She has a brief
cameo in the film, in which she delivers the in-joke, "I'm not a
lesbian!". (Turner has publicly acknowledged her lesbianism.
[Interview with Guinevere Turner (page 2)]).
Turner emerged on the scene with the film
Go Fish, which she co-wrote and co-produced with her then-girlfriend,
Rose Troche. Turner also starred in the film, portraying a young woman named Max whose friends help her find a new girlfriend, Ely, portrayed by VS Brodie. Director
Kevin Smith was a fan of the movie, particularly a scene in it wherein, in an imagined sequence, some of a character's friends chastise her for "selling out" and sleeping with a man, and used it as an inspiration for his own take on a similar theme in his own film
Chasing Amy. Turner has cameos in both
Chasing Amy and Smith's later film
Dogma; her name is used as that of
Joey Lauren Adams' character in Smith's
Mallrats.