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Karen AllenAdd to My CelebsAge 60 Birthday Oct. 5th, 1951 Born in Carrollton, Illinois, USA Height 5' 7" |
Karen Allen's Main TV Roles
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Main Movie Roles2009 - A Dog Year2008 - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2004 - Poster Boy 2001 - In the Bedroom 2000 - The Perfect Storm 1993 - Ghost in the Machine 1993 - King of the Hill 1993 - The Sandlot 1992 - The Turning 1992 - Malcolm X 1988 - Scrooged 1984 - Starman 1981 - Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 1980 - Cruising 1979 - Manhattan 1979 - The Wanderers 1978 - National Lampoon's Animal House |
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB
Born in rural southern Illinois, Karen spent her first 10 years traveling around the country with her mother, her FBI agent father, and two sisters. At 17, after graduating from high school, Karen moved to New York to study art and design. She later attended the University of Maryland and spent time traveling through South and Central America. In 1974 Karen joined a theatre group and 3 years later moved back to New York and studied with the Lee Strasberg Institute. In 1978, she made her major film debut in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and Hollywood took notice. Her next big break came in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) where she created the role of "Marion Ravenwood". Karen also debuted on Broadway in 1982 in "Monday After the Miracle, The". After a few small films, including the underrated Until September (1984), directed by Richard Marquand, and other stage appearances, she made the successful science fiction movie Starman (1984). After that her movie career waned as she preferred to work on the stage. She married Kale Browne in 1988 and had Nicholas, her first child in 1990. Since the birth of Nicholas, Karen has done smaller film roles and TV movies to concentrate on raising Nicholas.
TRIVIA:
- Considered for the role of Princess Leia Organa in _Star Wars (1977)_ (qv), later cast in the 'George Lucas (I)' (qv)-produced _Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)_ (qv).
- Graduated from DuVal High School in Glenndale Maryland in 1969.
- She inaugurated her own knitwear design studio in 2004 in Massachussets: Karen Allen - Fiber Arts.
- Son, Nicholas, born on September 14th 1990.
- Studied in the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
- In 1995 she founded the Berkshire Mountain Yoga in Massachussets.
- Has a major in Design by New York's Fashion Institute of Technology.
- Graduated in 1969 from the DuVal High School in Glenndale Maryland.
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