Geraldine Turner, OAM, is synonymous with Australian show business. During the past 25 years she has firmly established herself as a public favourite and a consummate performer is almost every aspect of the entertainment industry: an attribute which helped earn her an Order of Australia medal in the 1988 Bicentennial Honours list.

When it comes to musicals, acting, movies, TV, cabaret, recording, dance, hosting and singing Geraldine has "been there, done that and more- and loved it! She has also worked tirelessly behind-the-scenes and four years was President of Australian Actors Equity.

Geraldine could well have been born to show business. As a child she appeared in "Aladdin", "The Sleeping Princess" and as a regular singer and dancer on Queensland's "Cottee's Happy Hour".

A further 10 years of training in classical ballet and five years studying classical singing prepared her for a long, successful and varied career.

Since then she has wowed theatre-going audiences in musicals like "Oliver", "Chicago" , "A Little Night Music", "Anything Goes", "Guys and Dolls, "Into The Woods", "Sweeney Todd", operas and operettas like "La Belle Helene" and "HMS Pinafore": and plays including "Present Laughter" and "Don's Party". Her many concert and cabaret performances have taken her across Australia from The Regent Supper Club to the Victorian Arts Centre and to New York, London, Vancouver, San Francisco- even Africa.   Most recently Geraldine has performed in "Cabaret", "Grease", "Simply Weill", "Call Me Madam" & has received rave reviews after performing her own show at Bar jeder Vernunft in Berlin.  Her cabaret show "It Was Worth It" has recently been a hit in both Sydney & Melbourne.

Movie-goers have delighted to her performances in films like "Careful He Might Hear You" and "Summerfield". Geraldine's latest movie role was in the record breaking Australian movie "The Wogboy".   TV watchers have seen her as a panellist on "Beauty and the Beast", acting in ABC-TV'S "G.P." and "Natural Causes" and SBS's "Six Pack" episode "That Man's Father" and as well as starring in the musically-oriented "Once In A Blue Moon" and "Three Men And A Baby Grand".

In the recording world Geraldine is recognised internationally as a Stephen Sondheim interpreter par excellence through titles such as "Old Friends-The Stephen Sondheim Songbook Vols 1 & 2" and has recorded solo albums, including "Torch songs- And Some Not So Torturous" & "When We Met" as well as cast albums from her stage hits like "Chicago" and "Anything Goes".

Geraldine 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".