Karen Allen

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October 5, 1951

Karen Jane Allen

Kale Browne (May 1, 1988 - 1997) (divorced) 1 son

Lived with musician Stephen Bishop.

Actress

2011 I Am Number Four (scenes deleted) (uncredited)

2010 November Christmas (TV movie)

2010 Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV series)

2010 White Irish Drinkers

2009 A Dog Year (voice)

2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

2004 When Will I Be Loved

2004 Poster Boy

2003 Briar Patch

2003 The Root

2003 Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update (video short)

2001 Shaka Zulu: The Citadel (TV movie)

2001 World Traveler

2001 My Horrible Year! (TV movie)

2001 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series)

2001 In the Bedroom

2000 The Perfect Storm

2000 Wind River

1999 Falling Sky

1999 The Basket

1997 All the Winters That Have Been (TV movie)

1997 'Til There Was You

1996 Law & Order (TV series)

1996 Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story (TV movie)

1994 The Road Home (TV series)

1993 Ghost in the Machine

1993 King of the Hill

1993 Voyage (TV movie)

1993 The Sandlot

1993 Rapture (TV movie)

1992 Malcolm X

1992 The Turning

1992 Nonesense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes (video)

1992 Nonesense and Lullabyes: Poems (video)

1991 Sweet Talker

1990 Secret Weapon (TV movie)

1990 Challenger (TV movie)

1989 Animal Behavior

1988 Scrooged

1988 Backfire

1987 The Glass Menagerie

1987 Terminus

1986 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series)

1984 Starman

1984 Until September

1982 Captured

1982 Shoot the Moon

1981 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981 East of Eden (TV mini-series)

1980 A Small Circle of Friends

1980 Cruising

1979 Knots Landing (TV series)

1979 The Wanderers

1979 Manhattan

1978 Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II (TV movie)

1978 Animal House

Appearances

2010 John Belushi: Dancing on the Edge

2008 The Graham Norton Show (TV series)

2008 Loose Women (TV series)

2008 Production Diary: Making of 'The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' (video documentary)

2008 Indiana Jones 4: The Return of a Legend (video short)

2008 Animal House: The Inside Story (TV movie)

2008 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)

2008 The View (TV series)

2008 Nyhetsmorgon (TV series)

2008 Up Close with Carrie Keagan (TV series)

2003-2008 Entertainment Tonight (TV series)

2008 Good Morning America (TV series)

2008 Fantástico (TV series documentary)

2006 The Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills (video documentary)

2003 Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy (video documentary)

2003 Unseen + Untold: National Lampoon's Animal House (TV documentary)

2002 VH-1 Behind the Movie (TV series documentary)

2000 HBO First Look (TV series documentary)

1998 The Yearbook: An 'Animal House' Reunion (video documentary)

1996 The American Film Institute Salute to Steven Spielberg (TV special documentary)

1995 The Making of Disneyland's 'Indiana Jones Adventure' (TV documentary)

1994 Biography (TV series documentary) (voice)

1982 The 54th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1981 The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (TV documentary)

1981 Fridays (TV series)

1981 Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (TV documentary)

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films


1985 Nominated Saturn Award Best Actress for: Starman (1984)

1982 Won Saturn Award Best Actress for: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)


Independent Spirit Awards

1988 Nominated Independent Spirit Award Best Supporting Female for: The Glass Menagerie (1987)


Sant Jordi Awards

1990 Nominated Sant Jordi Best Foreign Actress (Mejor Actriz Extranjera) for: The Glass Menagerie (1987)

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Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American actress best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Allen has also had roles in films including National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Wanderers (1979), Cruising (1980), Starman (1984), Scrooged (1988), The Sandlot (1993), and Poster Boy (2004).

Allen was born in Carrollton, rural western Illinois, the daughter of Patricia Allen, a teacher, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent. She is of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent. Allen spent her first 10 years traveling around the country with her parents and two sisters. After she graduated from DuVal Senior High School, in Lanham, Maryland, at 17, she moved to New York City to study art and design at Fashion Institute of Technology. She later attended the University of Maryland, College Park, and spent time traveling through South and Central America. In 1974, Allen joined Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts and, three years later, moved back to New York City and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

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Overcame temporary blindness caused by Kerato Conjunctivitis in 1978

Has a major in Design by New York's Fashion Institute of Technology.

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