Guinevere Turner

Guinevere Turner is an American lesbian filmmaker, screenwriter, and actress who co-wrote and starred in Go Fish (1994) alongside director Rose Troche, with whom she had previously organized for ACT UP Chicago — one of the defining films of the New Queer Cinema movement, a joyful, low-budget portrait of a community of young lesbians navigating friendship, dating, and identity. Shot for around $15,000, Go Fish premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994 and was acquired by a distributor for $450,000, becoming a cultural landmark of 1990s lesbian cinema and launching both Turner's and Troche's careers. Turner went on to write the screenplay for the satirical horror film American Psycho (2000), adapted with director Mary Harron from Bret Easton Ellis's novel, and contributed episodes to The L Word (2004), the groundbreaking drama centered on a group of lesbian and bisexual women in Los Angeles. She has remained an influential voice in queer film and television for three decades.