1. Karen Jane Allen was born on October 5,1951 and is an American film, television and stage actress.
26 Facts About Karen Allen
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Karen Allen made her film debut in the comedy film Animal House, which was followed by a small role in Woody Allen's romantic comedy-drama Manhattan and a co-lead role in Philip Kaufman's coming-of-age film The Wanderers, before co-starring opposite Al Pacino in William Friedkin's crime thriller Cruising.
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Karen Allen later co-starred in Shoot the Moon, Starman, for which she was again nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actress, and Scrooged.
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Karen Allen has received recognition for her work in The Glass Menagerie, Year by the Sea, and Colewell.
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Karen Allen reprised her role as Marion Ravenwood in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
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Karen Allen was born on October 5,1951, in Carrollton, Illinois, to Ruth Patricia, a university professor, and Carroll Thompson Karen Allen, an FBI agent.
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Karen Allen is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent.
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Karen Allen later ran a boutique on the University of Maryland campus and spent time traveling through South and Central Asia.
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Karen Allen made her major film debut in 1978 in National Lampoon's Animal House.
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Karen Allen appeared in the 1979 pilot episode of the long-running CBS series Knots Landing.
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Karen Allen had a small role as a television actor in Woody Allen's film Manhattan, before being cast as the love interest of Al Pacino in William Friedkin's controversial film Cruising.
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Karen Allen's career-changing role came with the blockbuster movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, directed by Steven Spielberg, in which she played Marion Ravenwood, the love interest of Indiana Jones.
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Karen Allen won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her performance.
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Karen Allen debuted on Broadway in the 1982 production The Monday After The Miracle.
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In 1988, Karen Allen returned to the big screen as Bill Murray's long-lost love, Claire, in the Christmas comedy Scrooged.
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Karen Allen starred in the short-lived series The Road Home, and portrayed Dr Clare Burton in the video game Ripper.
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Karen Allen reprised her best-known role as Marion Ravenwood for the 2008 sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which she renews her relationship with Indiana Jones and reveals to him that they have a son named Henry Jones III, who named himself Mutt Williams, played by Shia LaBeouf.
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Karen Allen starred in the American premiere of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City, which opened in October 2012.
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Karen Allen has a long-standing relationship with the Berkshire Theater Group.
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Karen Allen has appeared in summer production of the nearby Williamstown Theater Festival.
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In 2016, Karen Allen made her movie directing debut with the short film, A Tree.
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Karen Allen played the lead role in 2017's Year by the Sea, a film based on The New York Times bestselling memoir by Joan Anderson.
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Karen Allen reprised her role as Marion Ravenwood one last time in 2023's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
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In 1988, Karen Allen married actor Kale Browne and had a son, Nicholas, in 1990.
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Karen Allen has a store in Great Barrington that sells items Allen knits with a Japanese-made knitting machine as well as products made by other designers.
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Karen Allen teaches acting at Bard College at Simon's Rock, located in Great Barrington.