Janine TurnerFilmography

Born:: December 6, 1962 in Lincoln, NE
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Janine Loraine Gauntt
Biography:: Actress Janine Turner was trained at New York's Professional Children's School. (She can still do a mean tap-dance if called upon.) Though she endured the usual audition rounds while seeking out acting and modelling work, Turner's break came by way of fortuitous happenstance--at 17, she was...Read More

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Christoga: Faith in Fitness

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator, Songwriter

Actors: Janine Turner

Synopsis: For Christians who have longed to experience the positive health benefits of yoga but remain weary of the Hindu spirituality with which it is so closely tied, this non-traditional hatha-yoga routine may be just the answer you've been looking for. Beginning and intermediate-level yoga routines are Read More

2007
Miracle Dogs Too

Actors: Janine Turner, Patrick Muldoon, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren, Jaleel White

Synopsis: Upon moving with his family to a new town and befriending a pair of magical mutts, a ten-year-old boy must choose between his love of animals and his desire to do the right thing in director Richard Gabai's affectionate family adventure. Like any young boy, Zack is nervous about moving to a new Read More

2006
The Night of the White Pants

Actors: Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl, Selma Blair, Frances Fisher, Laura Jordan

Synopsis: His life seemingly spiraling out of control with no means of pulling out of the earthbound dive, a Dallas powerbroker follows his daughter's punk rock boyfriend for a wild night of youthful mayhem that may just bring him back around if it doesn't kill him first. There was a time when Max Hagen (Tom Wilkinson Read More

2006
No Regrets

Actors: Kate Jackson, Janine Turner, Robert Merrill, Brad Johnson, Edward Albert

Synopsis: No Regrets opens as architect Alex Wheeler (Robert Merrill) is reunited with his college sweetheart Suzanne (Lari White) at the same time that Alex's wife, Cheryl (Janine Turner), is reunited with her college love Phil. But wait a minute! That isn't the real Cheryl, nor the real Suzanne, nor the Read More

2004
Birdie & Bogey

Actors: Janine Turner, Mike Norris, Amanda Alch

2004
Strong Medicine: Season 03

Actors: Rosa Blasi, Jenifer Lewis, Patricia Richardson, Josh Coxx, Janine Turner, Brennan Elliott, Philip Casnoff, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis: Season Three of "Strong Medicine" marks the departure of series regular Janine Turner as Dr. Dana Stone, who with her earthier counterpart Dr. Lu Delgado (Rose Blasi) has since the outset of the series been in charge of the Rittenhouse Women's Health Clinic in Philadelphia. Having resumed her Read More

2002
Strong Medicine: Season 02

Actors: Rosa Blasi, Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliott, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis: The second season of Lifetime's feminist medical series Strong Medicine begins with the episode "Donors", which includes a characteristic ethical clash between Rittenhouse Women's Health Clinic directors Dr. Lu Delgado (Rose Blasi) and Dr. Dana Stone (Janine Turner) over treatement of a girl who Read More

2001
Dr. T & The Women

Actors: Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long

Synopsis: Director Robert Altman reteams with Cookie's Fortune scribe Anne Rapp for this tale of a Dallas gynecologist and the parade of anxious patients, haggard family members, and potential love interests who come his way. Richard Gere plays the titular role of Dr. Sullivan Travis, a calm, successful Read More

10/13/00
Strong Medicine: Season 01

Actors: Rosa Blasi, Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliott, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis: The female-centric medical series Strong Medicine launches its first season as Dr. Lydia Emerson, played by series cocreator Whoopi Goldberg) somewhat forcibly negotiates a merger between the financially strapped South Philadelphia storefront clinic run by the feisty and outspoken Dr. Lu Delgado Read More

2000
A Secret Affair

Actors: Janine Turner, Paudge Behan, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Mailhouse, Gia Carides

Synopsis: Vanessa Stewart (Janine Turner) has the soul of an artist, but her business tycoon father insists that she follow in his footsteps. As a result, Vanessa convinces herself that she wants to be a globetrotting executive, and also that she truly loves the man to whom she is engaged. But while in Read More

1999
Fatal Error

Actors: Janine Turner

Synopsis: A technological nightmare becomes a terrifying reality in this sci-fi-thriller. When a group of computer experts and executives from a high-tech firm based in Seattle die suddenly and unexpectedly during a conference call, Samantha Craig (Janine Turner), a government agent who specializes in Read More

1999
Beauty

Actors: Janine Turner, Jamey Sheridan, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: This made-for-television romantic fantasy is based on author Susan Wilson's novel-length, updated version of Beauty and the Beast. The beauty is talented painter Alix Miller. Her father Alexander was scheduled to paint a family portrait for the reclusive author Lee Crompton, but he fell ill and Read More

1998
Circle of Deceit

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Having walked out on her cheating husband Jeff (Esai Morales), Terry Silva (Janine Turner) moves in with her best friend Elaine Greer (Joanna Cassidy). This set-up proves most untenable when Terry finds out that Elaine is Jeff's longtime mistress! Vowing to exact revenge on both Jeff and Elaine Read More

1998
Stolen Women: Captured Hearts

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-TV Stolen Women, Captured Hearts takes place in Kansas in 1868. In retribution for the genocidal attacks of General George Armstrong Custer, a band of Lakota Sioux kidnap a pair of white women, Anna Brewster Morgan (Janine Turner) and Sarah White ({$Jean Louisa Read More

1997
The Curse of Inferno

Actors: Pauly Shore, Janine Turner, Ned Beatty, Max Perlich

Synopsis: Comedian Pauly Shore headlines this goofy comedy caper as a rather dull-minded bank robber who suffers a change of heart and decides to give back the money. The trouble is, getting the money back into the bank proves much more difficult than taking it out. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
Leave It to Beaver

Actors: Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Cameron Finley, Erik Von Detten, Adam Zolotin

Synopsis: The Cleaver Family makes the jump from the small black and white screen to color and Panavision in this updated version of the classic TV sit-com. Eight-year-old Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Cameron Finley) is a good natured kid with a habit of getting in trouble; he's not bad, mind you, just a bit Read More

1997
Northern Exposure: Season 06

Actors: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Grant Goodeve, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips

Synopsis: The sixth and final season of Northern Exposure opens with the typically self-reflective "Dinner at Seven-Thirsty," in which Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), New York-born doctor of the Alaskan village of Cicely, envisions what life might have been like had he never left home. In a similar Read More

1994
Cliffhanger

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner, Rex Linn, Paul Winfield, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: In Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone plays Gabe Walker, a member of a mountain-climbing rescue team. Gabe is haunted by an incident from his past when he couldn't save the girlfriend of his best friend, Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker), from falling to her death. As the story begins, Gabe has left Read More

1993
Northern Exposure: Season 05

Actors: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Grant Goodeve, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips

Synopsis: The opening episode of Northern Exposure's fifth season is even more surrealistic than usual, which is saying quite a lot considering the quirky goings on in the Alaskan village of Cicely. Said opener is "Three Doctors," in which the town's New York-bred doctor, Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow) Read More

1993
Northern Exposure: Season 04

Actors: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Grant Goodeve, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips

Synopsis: Season four of Northern Exposure dawns on the tiny Alaskan village of Cicely and the eccentric residents living therein -- not to mention New York-born doctor Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), still reluctantly working off his student loans as Cicely's general practitioner. The season opener Read More

1992
Northern Exposure: Thanksgiving

1992
Northern Exposure: Northwest Passage

Synopsis: Northern Exposure was an unusually intelligent and witty hour-long comedy-drama set in a fictional Alaskan town that is filled with a quirky ensemble of residents. In this memorable episode, independent-minded but neurotic pilot Maggie O'Connell, who seems to be romantically cursed to have all of Read More

1992
Northern Exposure: Spring Break

Synopsis: Spring fever hits Cicely big time as the townsfolk await the annual breakup of the winter freeze. The seasonal madness includes the traditional "running of the bulls" -- only they aren't really bulls. Meanhile, the ever-bickering Joel (Rob Morrow) and Maggie (Janine Turner) are suddenly and Read More

1991
Northern Exposure: Cicely

Synopsis: The surreal lives of the townspeople of remote Cicely, Alaska served as the focus of the 1990-1995 television series Northern Exposure. Told in flashback, this episode recounts the town's founding by a pair of liberal women who are looking to establish a utopian society and who bring a bit of Read More

1991
Northern Exposure: Seoul Mates

1991
Northern Exposure: Season 02

Actors: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Grant Goodeve, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips

Synopsis: The overwhelmingly positive response (including a handful of Emmy nominations) to the first limited season of Northern Exposure in the summer of 1990 prompted CBS to commission seven more episodes, which were seen in the spring of 1991. In the eight months between the first batch of episodes and Read More

1991
Northern Exposure: Season 03

Actors: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Grant Goodeve, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips

Synopsis: After what amounted to a brace of "trial runs," the quirky seriocomic series Northern Exposure entered its third year on CBS with a full season's worth of episodes -- more than enough to thoroughly explore the mystical eccentricities of the citizens of Cicely, AK, and the constant bafflement of Read More

1991
Northern Exposure: Aurora Borealis - A Fairytale for Big People

Synopsis: Strange things always happen in Cicely during the Aurora Borealis, and those "things" are even stranger in this final episode of Northern Exposure's first season. Lost in the woods, Joel (Rob Morrow) is rescued by a legendary sasquatch-like creature named Adam -- who turns out to be a human being Read More

1990
The Ambulance

Actors: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Red Buttons, Megan Gallagher, Janine Turner

Synopsis: This paranoid thriller begins as Eric Roberts' girlfriend (Janine Turner) is taken away in an ambulance and he can't find her. She's been taken prisoner by Eric Braeden, a crazed doctor who kidnaps people and sells their bodies for spare parts. Roberts hooks up with pretty cop Megan Gallagher to Read More

1990
Northern Exposure: Season 01

Actors: Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Grant Goodeve, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips

Synopsis: Northern Exposure made its first appearance as an eight-week Thursday-night "tryout" on CBS in the late summer of 1990. With swift, sure strokes, the series' producers quickly established that 27-year-old Dr. Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), freshly graduated from Columbia University Medical School Read More

1990
Northern Exposure: Pilot

Synopsis: Upon graduation from medical school, 27-year-old doctor Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow) must work off 125,000 dollars worth of student loans by accepting a practice in Anchorage, AK. Having seldom ventured any farther than the boundaries of his native Manhattan, Joel balks at this assignment, only to Read More

1990
Steel Magnolias

Actors: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: The title refers to those seemingly frail Southern belles who survive any and all deprivations through whims of iron. Robert Harling's original stage play was set exclusively in a Louisiana beauty parlor where an all-female cast of characters laughed, cried and compared menfolk. The film expands Read More

11/15/89
Monkey Shines

Actors: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Christine Forrest

Synopsis: A quadriplegic former athlete finds his darkest urges being acted out by an animal familiar in this psychological horror film. When Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) loses the use of his legs and arms in an accident, he becomes bitter -- no surprise given that his girlfriend dumps him for his surgeon, his Read More

7/29/88
Tai-Pan

Actors: Bryan Brown, Joan Chen, John Stanton, Tim Guinee, Bill Leadbitter

Synopsis: Daryl Duke directed this epic adventure, based on James Clavell's best-selling novel, concerning the battle for control of the China trade in early 19th-century Hong Kong. The film takes place in 1842 on the China Coast, where the Chinese object to the British imperialist policy of buying opium Read More

11/7/86
Knights of the City

Actors: Leon Isaac Kennedy, John Mengatti, Nicholas Campbell, Jeff Moldovan

Synopsis: In a weak mix of too many ingredients -- a dash of West Side Story, a pinch of Breakin', and sprinkles of references to other teen gang films -- this saga of one gang at odds with another is more like warmed-up leftovers than an original creation. Troy, Mookie, and Joey (Leon Isaac Kennedy, John Read More

2/14/86
The A-Team: The Big Squeeze

Synopsis: In order to bring loan shark Jack "The Ripper" Lane (Wings Hauser) out in the open, the A-Team opens its own Irish pub, The Naked Lady. Disguised as pub owner Sean O'Shay, Hannibal (George Peppard) is apparently killed on orders from Lane, but it's actually a clever ploy to get inside the head Read More

1985

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