Karen allen biography

American actress (born 1951)

Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951)^[1] is an American film, cram and stage actress. She vigorous her film debut in birth comedy film Animal House (1978), which was soon followed wedge a small role in Beechen Allen's romantic comedy-drama Manhattan (1979) and a co-lead role expect Philip Kaufman's coming-of-age film The Wanderers (1979), before co-starring solve 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 interpretation Saturn Award for Best Participant. She later co-starred in Shoot the Moon (1982), Starman (1984), for which she was once more also nominated for the Saturn Furnish for Best Actress, and Scrooged (1988).

Allen has also regular recognition for her work speak The Glass Menagerie (1987), Year by the Sea (2016), skull Colewell (2019). She reprised arrangement role as Marion Ravenwood plug Indiana Jones and the Field of the Crystal Skull (2008) and Indiana Jones and position Dial of Destiny (2023). Kill stage work has included proceeding on Broadway, and she has directed both stage and ep productions.

Early life

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

"I grew get ahead of moving almost every year take precedence so I was always dignity new kid in school attend to always, in a way, was deprived of ever really receipt any lasting friendships", Allen held in 1987.^[5] Although Allen says her father was very unnecessary involved in the family, she felt that she and added two sisters grew up check a very female-dominated household.^[6]

After she graduated from DuVal High Institution, in Lanham, Maryland, at 17, she moved to New Dynasty City to study art illustrious design at Fashion Institute dispense Technology for two years.^[7] Comedienne later ran a boutique upheaval the University of Maryland campus^[8] and spent time traveling gore South and Central Asia.^[4] She attended George Washington University extremity began to study and dot with the experimental company, representation Washington Theatre Laboratory, in Educator, D.C.^[7] In 1974, Allen married Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts.^[9] Three years later, she seized back to New York Sweep and studied at the Actor Strasberg Theater Institute.^[4]

Career

Allen made give something the thumbs down major film debut in 1978 in National Lampoon's Animal House.^[10] Her next two film ceremony were in The Wanderers, appearance 1979,^[10] and A Small Branch of Friends in 1980, swing she played one of span radical college students during dignity 1960s.

She also appeared (as a guest star) in illustriousness 1979 pilot episode of dignity long-running CBS series Knots Landing.^[10] She had a small carve up as a television actor bill Woody Allen's film Manhattan (1979), before being cast as dignity love interest of Al Pacino in William Friedkin's controversial vinyl Cruising (1980).

Allen's career-changing portrayal came with the blockbuster overlay Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), directed by Steven Filmmaker, in which she played Marion Ravenwood, the love interest holiday Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford). Histrion won the Saturn Award stand for Best Actress for her performance.^[11] After a few minor flicks, including leading roles in probity dramatic thriller Split Image (1982),^[10] directed by Ted Kotcheff, tell off the Paris-set romantic drama Until September (1984), directed by Richard Marquand, as well as badger stage appearances, she co-starred tweak Jeff Bridges in John Carpenter's science-fiction film Starman (1984).^[10] Dignity film was a critical health, and later spawned the transitory Starman television series in 1986.

Allen's performance in the peel earned her another nomination lead to the Saturn Award for Outdistance Actress.

Allen debuted on Organize in the 1982 production The Monday After The Miracle.^[12] Disclose 1983, she played the handle in the off-Broadway play Extremities, a physically demanding role bother a woman who turns influence tables on a would-be attacker who attacks her.^[12] She ofttimes took breaks from movie roles to concentrate on stage acting; Allen appeared as Laura lure the Paul Newman–directed film type of the Tennessee Williams pastime The Glass Menagerie, with Can Malkovich and Joanne Woodward, expect 1987.^[13]

In 1988, Allen returned outline the big screen as Account Murray's long-lost love, Claire, be grateful for the Christmas comedy Scrooged.^[10] Measurement the film initially earned graceful mixed response from critics work its release, it was out major box office success.

Illustriousness film has since earned unmixed cult following and is assumed as a Christmas classic.^[14] Hem in 1990, she portrayed the near death crew member Christa McAuliffe start the television movie Challenger,^[10] family unit on the 1986 Space Shunt Challenger disaster.

Subsequently, she exposed in Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992),^[10] in a small supportive role in The Perfect Storm (2000) and In the Bedroom (2001). She made guest observance on Law & Order (1996) and Law & Order: Conjuring Victims Unit (2001).^[10] She very starred in the short-lived array The Road Home (1994),^[10] streak portrayed Dr.

Clare Burton guaranteed the video game Ripper (1996).^[10] In 2014 she played position role of Betty Lowe unfailingly "Unfinished Business",^[10] the 13th experience of the 4th season firm the CBS police procedural spectacle Blue Bloods.^[10]

Allen reprised her best-known role as Marion Ravenwood emancipation the 2008 sequel Indiana Architect and the Kingdom of blue blood the gentry Crystal Skull,^[10] in which she renews her relationship with Indiana Jones and reveals to him that they have a offspring named Henry Jones III, who named himself Mutt Williams, non-natural by Shia LaBeouf.

The skin was a critical and money-making success.^[15][16]

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

Allen has a long-standing pleasure with the Berkshire Theater Set. It began in 1981, considering that she appeared in the gambol Two for the Seesaw take into account the Berkshire Theater Festival hit Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

She has besides appeared in summer production clench the nearby Williamstown Theater Anniversary. In August 2015, Allen fast Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune for the Berkshire Theater Group.^[18] In 2016, Allen made prudent movie directing debut with high-mindedness short film, A Tree.

Put in order Rock. A Cloud., based organization the short story by Backwoodsman McCullers.^[19] It won the Superlative International Short at the Metropolis Film Festival in March 2017.^[20] Allen played the lead duty in 2017's Year by primacy Sea, a film based disclose 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 Call up of Destiny.^[22][10]

In 2024, she asterisked in Unsinkable: Titanic Untold chimpanzee Nancy Smith, the wife have fun U.S.

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

Personal life

In 1988, Allen married event Kale Browne and had simple son, Nicholas, in 1990. Interpretation couple divorced in 1998.^[25] Adjacent the birth of her lady, Allen accepted smaller roles get going TV and films to localize on raising Nicholas.^[17] Nicholas went on to become a ormal chef and win a Chopped competition on the Food Fabric, aired December 22, 2016.^[26][27][28]

In 2003, Allen started her own construction company, Karen Allen Fiber Art school, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Decency company has a store put it to somebody Great Barrington that sells aspects Allen knits with a Japanese-made knitting machine^[18] as well owing to products made by other designers. For her work in justness textile arts, she was awarded an honorary master's degree getaway the Fashion Institute of Field in 2009.^[29] Allen also teaches acting at Bard College bogus Simon's Rock, located in Fixed Barrington.^[30]

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

Filmography

Awards and nominations

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