Barbara Turner

Born on July 14, 1936, New Yorker Gloria Rose Turner came from a family of Jewish emigrants from Austria. After leaving the University, he enrolled in Dramatic Art at the Dramatic Workshop, a school in the Big Apple, where he met actor Vic Morrow , whom he married in 1957. They had two daughters with him, Jennifer Jason Leigh , who would follow in his footsteps. in the acting world, and Carrie-Ann Morrow.

As Barbara Turner, her stage name, she only landed roles in second-rate movies on TV and on TV, although she also appeared as an extra in Blue Soldier . She ended up co-writing Death Row with her husband , an adaptation of a work by Jean Genet , directed by him, with Leonard Nimoy in the lead role. She continued as a screenwriter with Petulia , starring Julie Christie , and The Affair , a TV movie with Natalie Wood .

After divorcing Morrow, she joined Reza Badiyi , an Iranian director specializing in American series, with whom she had another daughter, the also actress Mina Badiyi. She was also the author of Georgia , starring her daughter Jennifer hers as a woman obsessed with making it in the music field as her sister.

In 2000 he wrote Pollock , a biography of the famous painter, starring and directed by Ed Harris . It was followed by The Company , a drama about a group of dancers directed by his close friend Robert Altman . His last work was the HBO telefilm Hemingway & Gellhorn , which reconstructs the relationship between the author of “The Old Man and the Sea” and the journalist Martha Gellhorn.