Geraldine Turner is synonymous with Australian show business. During the past three decades she has firmly established herself as a public favourite and a consummate performer in almost every aspect of the entertainment industry; an attribute which helped earn her the ‘Order of Australia’ medal in the 1988 Bicentennial Honours list. When it comes to musicals, movies, television, cabaret and recording, Geraldine Turner has few peers. She has also put her skills to work by giving masterclasses at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and for four years was Federal President of Australian Actors Equity.

Geraldine Turner has thrilled theatre going audiences in musicals like A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Company, Chicago, Anything Goes, Cabaret, Kismet, Oliver!, Guys and Dolls, Call Me Madam, Nöel & Gertie, Mack & Mabel, Ned Kelly, Grease and The Witches of Eastwick; operas and operettas like La Belle Helene”, HMS Pinafore and The Mikado; and plays including Inheritance, Present Laughter, Don’s Party, The Forest, The Vagina Monologues, and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Her many concert and cabaret performances have taken her across Australia and to New York, Vancouver, San Francisco, Africa and, most recently, Berlin.

Moviegoers have delighted to her performances in films like Careful He Might Hear You, Summerfield and The Wog Boy while Australian TV watchers have seen her as a panelist on Beauty and the Beast, acting in ABC-TV’s GP and Natural Causes and SBS’s Six Pack, That Man’s Father and as ensemble performer in Three Men and a Baby Grand as well as the enormously successful tribute to Australian music-theatre Once In a Blue Moon. Her recent television credits include Spicks & Specks, All Saints and the role of Kitty Vale on Home and Away.

In the recording world Geraldine Turner is recognised internationally as a Stephen Sondheim interpreter par excellence - having the distinction of being the first artist worldwide to record and release an all-Sondheim album The Stephen Sondheim Songbook which was followed in 2002 with Volume Two. Other albums include Torch Songs - And Some Not So Tortuous, When We Met, All the Colours of the Rainbow, Once in a Blue Moon, The Tilbury Gala, Number One Musicals, and cast albums of her stage hits like Chicago, Mikado and Anything Goes. Geraldine has recently finished a successful season of Jacques Brel for The Street Theatre in Canberra.

Geraldine Turner has won several awards including two prestigious Green Room Awards (in 1984 for her role as Nancy in Oliver! and again in 1989 for her role as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes) and two Mo Awards (in 1989 again for Anything Goes and in 1988 for her performance as Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd).