Karen Jane Allen was born on October 5,1951 and is an American film and stage actress.
22 Facts About Karen Allen
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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 attended George Washington University and began to study and perform with the experimental company, the Washington Theatre Laboratory, in Washington, DC.
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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 and played Annie Fairgate, the daughter of Don Murray's character Sid Fairgate and Sid's first wife Susan Philby.
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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 a 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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Karen Allen often took breaks from movie roles to concentrate on stage acting; Allen appeared as Laura in the Paul Newman-directed film version of the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie, with John Malkovich and Joanne Woodward, in 1987.
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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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In 1988, Karen Allen married actor Kale Browne and had a son, Nicholas, in 1990.
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Karen Allen developed an affinity for knitting, and in 2003, started her own textile company, Karen Allen Fiber Arts, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
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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 other products made by compatible designers.
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Karen Allen teaches acting at Bard College at Simon's Rock, located in Great Barrington.