Described by critic J Hoberman as looking like a 1940s film star dressed as a Little Rascal, the delightful Guinevere Turner made her acting, screenwriting and producing debut with Rose Troche's indie "Go Fish" (1994). Centering on Chicago's Wicker Park lesbian community, "Go Fish" marked an expansion within the "New Queer Cinema" movement to girl-oriented themes. Turner starred as the confident if lovelorn Max, a hip, verbally attuned "Generation X" lesbian who ends up in the arms of a gay veterinarian, and her script, stronger in its ripe, knowing ripostes then in its simple yet meandering
Grew up traveling the country as part of a religious cult; when family eventually left the cult, resumed normal schooling
Settled in Chicago where she met Rose Troche, director and co-screenwriter of "Go Fish"
1994
Screenwriting, acting and producing debut, "Go Fish"; premiered at the Sundance Film Festival
1996
Appeared in Cheryl Dunye's "The Watermelon Woman" as Dunye's lesbian lover
First collaboration with Mary Harron, co-wrote script for a biopic of 1950s pin-up model Bettie Page; HBO at one time planned to fund with Turner in lead role; still in development as of January 2000
