IT’S not every week that a Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated, bonafide Hollywood movie star sashays into Essex - but it’s happening!

Film star Kathleen Turner is coming to Colchester to share her trademark husky alto in one woman cabaret show Finding My Voice.

The actress, known for Eighties' blockbusters Romancing the Stone and the War of the Roses, opposite Michael Douglas, as well as classics like Peggy Sue Got Married, Prizzi's Honor and Body Heat, will take to the stage to perform iconic tunes from the American songbook including, Let’s Fall in Love, On the Street Where You Live, Every Time We Say Goodbye and many more.

The show aims to take the audience on a journey through the life of the 63-year-old American actress as she shares remarkable stories spanning her distinguished career.

Turner's life and career has had its ups and downs.

In the Eighties and early Nineties she was a lady very much in demand by directors, but when rheumatoid arthritis seriously restricted her activities in the 1990s, her movie career suffered a decline.

Due to her illness she was forced to turn down lead roles in Ghost and The Bridges of Madison County, both of which became huge hits.

But true of any big star the actress has bounced back.

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Co-stars Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner 

More recently she had a star turn on Friends where she appeared as Chandler’s dad and also had a starring role in Californication. She has also trod the boards and twice been nominated for a Best Actress Tony Award for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, for which she also won the Evening Standard Award.

Finding my Voice is only stopping at a handful of UK venues and Colchester’s Mercury Theatre is one of them.

The show will be on Saturday, May 12. Tickets are £28. Call the box office on 01206 573948 or visit mercurytheatre.co.uk.