Janine Turner is an Emmy and three-time Golden Globe nominated actress known to millions of fans for her role as Maggie O’Connell in the CBS hit, Emmy award winning show, Northern Exposure.
Turner’s lustrous film career includes starring in NBC’s Friday Night Lights, in feature films such as Steel Magnolias, Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone, Dr. T and the Women with Richard Gere, Night of the White Pants with Tom Wilkinson and in Universal’s Leave it to Beaver as June Cleaver. In her most recent movie role she portrays Anthony Hopkins’ wife in the feature film Solace. As a producer, director, Turner won Best New Director at both the Deep Ellum and Beverly Hills Film Festivals for her short film, Trip in a Summer Dress.
She is also a four-time published author and creator of Front Porch Philosophy. Turner produced and stars in the Christian yoga DVD, Christoga, is the founder and co-chair of the foundation, Constituting America, a radio show talk show host, nationally televised political analyst, a newspaper columnist, and a highly acclaimed and sought-after public speaker known for her riveting and inspiring speeches across the country.
Turner has given over 340 speeches to over 48,000 people to audiences such as SMU’s Perkins School of Theology, Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, White’s Chapel United Methodist Church, The American Red Cross in Washington, D.C., Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Republican National Convention in 2012. She speaks on topics such as: her Christian faith, inspiration in the workplace, overcoming defeat in Hollywood, depression, sobriety, single motherhood, politics in America, the United States Constitution and physical health.
Turner founded and currently co-chairs the foundation Constituting America. Launched in 2010, it is the only non-partisan organization that promotes through the We the Future Contest the winners and their works – their movies, songs, PSAs, STEM creations, essays and speeches – on television, in the movie theaters, on the radio, in print, social media, and the internet to inspire other students and adults to learn about the United States Constitution. Turner speaks with students in classrooms across the nation, either in person or via Google Hangout, empowering the students to be a part of the government whether Democrat or Republican by utilizing the, “set of tools in their toolbox – the First Amendment,” to effect change through the legislative and amendment process.
Turner’s opinion-editorials and columns have been printed in the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, the Daily Caller, and P.J. Media. Turner has been a regular political analyst on shows such as The O’Reilly Factor, On the Record, Fox & Friends, America Live and Varney & Company. She was picked as Chris Wallace’s Fox News Sunday – Power Player of the Week in 2010, other networks include CNN & Newsmax. In 2006, Turner was appointed by President George W. Bush to his Presidential Council on Service & Civic Participation. In 2013 Turner received the Daughters of the American Revolution – Mary Smith Lockwood Medal for Education.
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