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name: "Tina Turner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tina-turner"
roles: ["Theme song performance"]
born: "26 November 1939"
died: "24 May 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T12:50:47.289793+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Tina Turner

Theme song performance. Born 26 November 1939 in Nutbush, Tennessee, USA. Died 24 May 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Theme song performance
- **Born:** 26 November 1939, Nutbush, Tennessee, USA
- **Died:** 24 May 2023
- **Active:** 1985–1995
- **Also known as:** Ike & Tina Turner, Anna Mae Bullock, Ike and Tina Turner, Martha Nell Turner
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 1 crew, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 78 (1), 1980s 65 (1), 1990s 78 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Turner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131814, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877913/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1459

## Fi1m on Tina Turner

> Tina Turner acted rarely and never quietly. She had one part built for her, Aunty Entity in *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome*, and she played it the way she sang, from the front and at full voice.

Aunty Entity stands on a balcony above a town made of scrap and rope, asks her people who runs Bartertown, and they roar the answer back at her. It is the best moment of swagger in *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome* (1985), and it is barely acting at all. It is a singer working a crowd, and Turner knows to the half-second how long to hold the silence before the answer comes. That is what she brought to films: a lifetime of being looked at, and the habit of behaving as though it were the natural order of things.

The screen career is short and makes no pretence otherwise. She had been a star for the best part of two decades before Ken Russell put her in *Tommy* (1975) as the Acid Queen, a drug-addicted sex worker in a rock opera, and the part is a musical number rather than a role: the sort of thing she did every night on tour, with a camera pointed at it. *Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band* (1978) gave her a guest appearance. Then came the solo career, and in the middle of it George Miller and George Ogilvie handed her the one part that was written with her in mind. After that there is a brief turn as the Mayor in *Last Action Hero* (1993), and that is more or less the lot. She had no acting training; she came in from music, and the parts she was offered stayed close to it.

She is not a subtle actor and Aunty Entity does not need one. She purrs, then she barks, and she carries herself through Bartertown like someone who has spent the best part of thirty years walking on to stages, which is the right way to run a town and one a great many trained actors never find. She said at the time that she wanted physical parts: "I want physical parts. I want to drive the machines, to do the fighting. I want to be physical." Miller gave her the town instead, and the walk turned out to be enough. We enjoyed her more than the film around her: once the story wandered off into the desert we sat waiting for a cut back to the balcony, and it was a long time coming.

Maurice Jarre had a full orchestra and a choir for that film and could not do across the whole of it what she does in one song over the closing credits. That is the measure of her. Most singers who go into films leave a shelf of parts they should not have taken. Turner left two that nobody else could have played, and a cameo, and Bartertown is still hers.

## Biography

Tina Turner (1939–2023) was an American singer and actress. Her film appearances included the role of The Acid Queen in *Tommy* (1975) and a cameo in *Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band* (1978).

She played Aunty Entity in *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome* (1985), opposite Mel Gibson, and The Mayor in *Last Action Hero* (1993). For the former performance she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture. She contributed songs to the *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome* soundtrack.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, screenrant.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome* (1985), Fi1m 65, as Aunty Entity — [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max-beyond-thunderdome.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *GoldenEye* (1995), Fi1m 78, Theme Song Performance — [page](https://film.one/film/goldeneye.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Gimme Shelter* (1970), Fi1m 78, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/gimme-shelter.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Cruella* (2021), as Songs
- *Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour - Live in Holland* (2009), Executive Producer
- *Ike And Tina Turner - Legends in Concert - Live at the Big TNT Show* (2004), Director, Music
- *Brother Bear* (2003), as Songs
- *Bryan Adams: So Far So Good* (2002), Actor
- *Ally McBeal* (1997), series, as Tina Turner
- *TFI Friday* (1996), series, Actor
- *GoldenEye* (1995), as Theme Song Performance — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/goldeneye.md)
- *Last Action Hero* (1993), as The Mayor
- *What's Love Got to Do with It* (1993), Book
- *Tina Turner: Live In Tokyo* (1985), Actor
- *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome* (1985), as Aunty Entity, Songs — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max-beyond-thunderdome.md)
- *Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper* (1984), as Songs
- *Tina Turner SoundStage Live in Chicago* (1983), Actor
- *Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band* (1978), as Our Guests at Heartland
- *Tommy* (1975), as The Acid Queen

## Gallery

- ![Tina Turner](https://film.one/media/person/407883/gallery-dffa0da6ec71.jpg) Tina Turner — Philip Spittle, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Tina_Turner_50th_Anniversary_Tour.jpg/1280px-Tina_Turner_50th_Anniversary_Tour.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tina Turner in the TV special Break Every Rule. (1987)](https://film.one/media/person/407883/gallery-08d22b350e72.png) Tina Turner in the TV special Break Every Rule. (1987) — HBO, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Tina_Turner_Breaks_All_the_Rules.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Foreign Affair: The Farewell Tour - City Stadium Velika Gorica, Croatia - 18th August 1990 (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/407883/gallery-aacaf989e751.jpg) Foreign Affair: The Farewell Tour - City Stadium Velika Gorica, Croatia - 18th August 1990 (2018) — Les Zg, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Tina_Turner.jpg/1280px-Tina_Turner.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![In the presence of an Icon! (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/407883/gallery-788836c15f8f.jpg) In the presence of an Icon! (2009) — Strength Fighter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Jesse_%22Justice%22_Smith_Jr._and_Tina_Turner.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tina Turner](https://film.one/media/person/407883/gallery-2cac946683af.jpg) Tina Turner — Image via TMDB
- ![Tina Turner](https://film.one/media/person/407883/gallery-d4dd0da8b4be.jpg) Tina Turner — Image via TMDB
- ![Tina Turner performing in Los Angeles, California (1984)](https://film.one/media/person/407883/gallery-70bfb4b73226.jpg) Tina Turner performing in Los Angeles, California (1984) — Ian Dryden, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Tina_Tuner_1984.jpg/1280px-Tina_Tuner_1984.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tina Turner posing at the 27th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California (1985)](https://film.one/media/person/407883/gallery-ec8629d5515d.jpg) Tina Turner posing at the 27th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California (1985) — Iris Schneider, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Tina_Turner_1985.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 14 won, 17 nominated

- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2021: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (won)
- Grammy Hall of Fame 2012: Grammy Hall of Fame (won), for *What's Love Got to Do with It*
- Grammy Award for Album of the Year 2008: Grammy Award for Album of the Year (won), for *River: The Joni Letters*
- Kennedy Center Honors 2005: Kennedy Center Honors (won)
- Grammy Hall of Fame 2003: Grammy Hall of Fame (won), for *Proud Mary*
- Grammy Hall of Fame 1999: Grammy Hall of Fame (won), for *River Deep – Mountain High*
- MOBO Awards 1999: MOBO Awards (won)
- Grammy Award for Best New New Jack Swing Artist 1998: Grammy Award for Best New New Jack Swing Artist (nominated), for *Wildest Dreams Tour*
- Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance 1994: Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (nominated), for *I Don't Wanna Fight (Tina Turner)*
- Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance 1993: Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (nominated), for *The Bitch Is Back*
- Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance 1991: Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (nominated), for *Steamy Windows*
- Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance 1990: Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (nominated), for *Foreign Affair*
- Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance 1989: Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (won), for *Tina Live in Europe*
- Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance 1988: Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance (nominated), for *Better Be Good to Me*
- Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance 1987: Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (nominated), for *Typical Male*
- Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance 1987: Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (won), for *Back Where You Started*
- Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance 1986: Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (nominated), for *We Don't Need Another Hero*
- Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance 1986: Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (won), for *One of the Living*
- Grammy Award for Best Music Video 1986: Grammy Award for Best Music Video (nominated), for *Private Dancer*
- Grammy Award for Best New New Jack Swing Artist 1986: Grammy Award for Best New New Jack Swing Artist (nominated), for *Tina Live - Private Dancer Tour*
- Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal 1986: Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (nominated), for *It's Only Love*
- Grammy Award for Album of the Year 1985: Grammy Award for Album of the Year (nominated), for *Private Dancer*
- Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance 1985: Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (won), for *What's Love Got to Do with It*
- Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance 1985: Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (nominated), for *Let's Stay Together*
- Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance 1985: Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (won), for *Better Be Good to Me*
- Grammy Award for Record of the Year 1985: Grammy Award for Record of the Year (won), for *What's Love Got to Do with It*
- Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance 1975: Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (nominated), for *Tina Turns the Country On!*
- Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance 1975: Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance (nominated), for *The Gospel According To Ike And Tina*
- Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals 1972: Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals (won), for *Proud Mary*
- Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance 1970: Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (nominated), for *The Hunter*
- Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song 1962: Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song (nominated), for *It's Gonna Work Out Fine*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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