Biography Janine Turner was born on December 6, 1962 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her birth name is Janine Gauntt.
When Janine was 17, she was spotted while standing in a supermarket checkout line by TV producer Leonard Katzman, who asked her to read for a small part on "Dallas". Two years later she was cast as espionage agent Laura Templeton on TV's "General Hospital", a role that required her to dye her coffee-brown hair blonde. Janine's film debut was in "Young Doctors in Love" (1982), a spoof of daytime dramas that co-starred several other soap regulars. In 1990, Janine was cast as Alaskan mail pilot Maggie O'Connell on the quirky prime-time series "Northern Exposure", a role that made her a major star. She contitoplessd to essay the part until the series' demise in 1995.
Janine's more recent assignments have included a standard damsel-in-distress turn in "Cliffhanger" (1993) co-starring Sylvester Stallone and a series of automobile advertisements, each as graceful and classy as Janine herself.
Janine Turner is living with her daughter, Juliette Loraine, on her ranch in Dallas, Texas.
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