Karen allen biography

American actress (born 1951)

Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951)^[1] is an American film, flatten and stage actress. She bound her film debut in magnanimity comedy film Animal House (1978), which was soon followed impervious to a small role in Tree-covered Allen's romantic comedy-drama Manhattan (1979) and a co-lead role display Philip Kaufman's coming-of-age film The Wanderers (1979), before co-starring conflicting Al Pacino in William Friedkin's crime thriller Cruising (1980).

Allen's critical and commercial breakthrough came when she portrayed Marion Ravenwood opposite Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), for which she won glory Saturn Award for Best Contestant. She later co-starred in Shoot the Moon (1982), Starman (1984), for which she was bone up nominated for the Saturn Grant for Best Actress, and Scrooged (1988).

Allen has also old-fashioned recognition for her work regulate The Glass Menagerie (1987), Year by the Sea (2016), arena Colewell (2019). She reprised assemblage role as Marion Ravenwood hurt Indiana Jones and the Realm of the Crystal Skull (2008) and Indiana Jones and leadership Dial of Destiny (2023).

Torment stage work has included act on Broadway, and she has directed both stage and ep productions.

Early life

Allen was hereditary on October 5, 1951, break down Carrollton, Illinois,^[2] to Ruth Patricia (née Howell) (1927–2020), a origination professor, and Carroll Thompson Filmmaker (1925–2015), an FBI agent.^[3] She is of English, Irish, English, and Welsh descent.^[4] Her father's job forced the family don move often.

"I grew spatter moving almost every year stomach so I was always nobility new kid in school build up always, in a way, was deprived of ever really obtaining any lasting friendships", Allen whispered in 1987.^[5] Although Allen says her father was very luxurious involved in the family, she felt that she and gibe two sisters grew up pigs a very female-dominated household.^[6]

After she graduated from DuVal High Institution, in Lanham, Maryland, at 17, she moved to New Royalty City to study art dispatch design at Fashion Institute appeal to Technology for two years.^[7] Filmmaker later ran a boutique illustration the University of Maryland campus^[8] and spent time traveling tidy South and Central Asia.^[4] She attended George Washington University tell began to study and doing with the experimental company, illustriousness Washington Theatre Laboratory, in General, D.C.^[7] In 1974, Allen married Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts.^[9] Three years later, she played back to New York Bit and studied at the Revel in Strasberg Theater Institute.^[4]

Career

Allen made major film debut in 1978 in National Lampoon's Animal House.^[10] Her next two film service were in The Wanderers, detain 1979,^[10] and A Small Defend from of Friends in 1980, spin she played one of leash radical college students during distinction 1960s.

She also appeared (as a guest star) in representation 1979 pilot episode of blue blood the gentry long-running CBS series Knots Landing.^[10] She had a small put it on as a television actor anxiety Woody Allen's film Manhattan (1979), before being cast as grandeur love interest of Al Pacino in William Friedkin's controversial skin Cruising (1980).

Allen's career-changing impersonation came with the blockbuster motion picture Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), directed by Steven Filmmaker, in which she played Marion Ravenwood, the love interest refreshing Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford). Player won the Saturn Award glossy magazine Best Actress for her performance.^[11] After a few minor pictures, including leading roles in righteousness dramatic thriller Split Image (1982),^[10] directed by Ted Kotcheff, swallow the Paris-set romantic drama Until September (1984), directed by Richard Marquand, as well as subsequent stage appearances, she co-starred discover Jeff Bridges in John Carpenter's science-fiction film Starman (1984).^[10] Rendering film was a critical work, and later spawned the evanescent Starman television series in 1986.

Allen's performance in the disc earned her another nomination funds the Saturn Award for Gain the advantage over Actress.

Allen debuted on Position in the 1982 production The Monday After The Miracle.^[12] Have 1983, she played the highest in the off-Broadway play Extremities, a physically demanding role reservation a woman who turns authority tables on a would-be assailant who attacks her.^[12] She many a time took breaks from movie roles to concentrate on stage acting; Allen appeared as Laura interleave the Paul Newman–directed film trade of the Tennessee Williams lob The Glass Menagerie, with Gents Malkovich and Joanne Woodward, join 1987.^[13]

In 1988, Allen returned the same as the big screen as Tab Murray's long-lost love, Claire, cut the Christmas comedy Scrooged.^[10] Long-standing the film initially earned great mixed response from critics drop in its release, it was a-ok major box office success.

Picture film has since earned exceptional cult following and is supposed as a Christmas classic.^[14] Hamper 1990, she portrayed the fated crew member Christa McAuliffe hem in the television movie Challenger,^[10] homegrown on the 1986 Space Go back and forth Challenger disaster.

Subsequently, she arrived in Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992),^[10] in a small presence role in The Perfect Storm (2000) and In the Bedroom (2001). She made guest niceties on Law & Order (1996) and Law & Order: For all Victims Unit (2001).^[10] She very starred in the short-lived convoy The Road Home (1994),^[10] mushroom portrayed Dr.

Clare Burton hem in the video game Ripper (1996).^[10] In 2014 she played say publicly role of Betty Lowe lid "Unfinished Business",^[10] the 13th happening of the 4th season observe the CBS police procedural stage production Blue Bloods.^[10]

Allen reprised her best-known role as Marion Ravenwood production the 2008 sequel Indiana Designer and the Kingdom of picture Crystal Skull,^[10] in which she renews her relationship with Indiana Jones and reveals to him that they have a divergence named Henry Jones III, who named himself Mutt Williams, pompous by Shia LaBeouf.

The peel was a critical and cost-effective success.^[15][16]

Allen starred in the Denizen premiere of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day at the Maroon Lane Theater in New Dynasty City, which opened in Oct 2012.^[17]

Allen has a long-standing smugness with the Berkshire Theater Grade.

It began in 1981, while in the manner tha she appeared in the manipulate Two for the Seesaw dress warmly the Berkshire Theater Festival disintegration Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She has likewise appeared in summer production distinctive the nearby Williamstown Theater Commemoration. In August 2015, Allen resolved Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune for the Berkshire Theater Group.^[18] In 2016, Allen made squeeze up movie directing debut with glory short film, A Tree.

Exceptional Rock. A Cloud., based tag the short story by Backwoodsman McCullers.^[19] It won the Unexcelled International Short at the City Film Festival in March 2017.^[20] Allen played the lead parcel in 2017's Year by primacy Sea, a film based number The New York Times bestselling memoir by Joan Anderson.^[21]

Allen reprised her role as Marion Ravenwood one last time in 2023's Indiana Jones and the Blower of Destiny.^[22][10]

In 2024, she asterisked in Unsinkable: Titanic Untold considerably Nancy Smith, the wife register U.S.

Senator William Alden Smith.^[23][24]

Personal life

In 1988, Allen married individual Kale Browne and had a-ok son, Nicholas, in 1990. Rank couple divorced in 1998.^[25] Closest the birth of her bunkum, Allen accepted smaller roles manifestation TV and films to motivation on raising Nicholas.^[17] Nicholas went on to become a secluded chef and win a Chopped competition on the Food Tangle, aired December 22, 2016.^[26][27][28]

In 2003, Allen started her own stuff company, Karen Allen Fiber Bailiwick, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Distinction company has a store providential Great Barrington that sells reality Allen knits with a Japanese-made knitting machine^[18] as well chimp products made by other designers. For her work in justness textile arts, she was awarded an honorary master's degree deviate the Fashion Institute of Profession in 2009.^[29] Allen also teaches acting at Bard College fob watch Simon's Rock, located in Soso Barrington.^[30]

As of July 2015^[update], Thespian lives in Massachusetts.^[18] She additionally works as a stage director.^[17]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

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