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Karen Black
Age: 70
Height: 5' 7"
Birth Place: Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
Born: Jul. 1st, 1939
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BIOGRAPHY: Karen Black was born Karen Blanche Zeigler in 1939. She entered Northwestern University at 15 and left two years later. She studied under Lee Strasberg in New York and worked in a number of off-Broadway roles. She made her film debut in The Prime Time (1960), but the film flopped. She made a critically acclaimed debut on Broadway in 1965 in "The Playroom". Her first big film role was in You're a Big Boy Now (1966), directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Shortly afterwards, she appeared as Marcia in the TV series "The Second Hundred Years" (1967).
The film that made her a star was Easy Rider (1969), where she worked with Peter Fonda (I), Dennis Hopper and a supporting actor named Jack Nicholson. She appeared with Nicholson again the next year when they starred in Five Easy Pieces (1970), which garnered an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe for Karen. Her roles mainly consisted of waitresses, hookers and women on the edge. Some of her later films were disappointments at the box office, but she did receive another Golden Globe for The Great Gatsby (1974). One role for which she is well remembered is that of the jewel thief in Alfred Hitchcock (I)'s last film, Family Plot (1976). Another is as the woman terrorized in her apartment by a murderous Zuni doll come to life in the well received TV movie Trilogy of Terror (1975) (TV). After a number of forgettable movies, she again won rave reviews for her role in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982). Since then, her film career has been busy, but the quality of the films has been uneven.
TRIVIA:
- She adopted a daughter, Celine Eckelberry, with her husband Stephen. Celine was born in November of 1987.
- Launched her career as a playwright in May 2007 with the opening of "Missouri Waltz" in Los Angeles; Black starred in the play as well. The piece is conceived as a play with music, rather than a musical.
- Mother of 'Hunter Carson' (qv) and 'Celine Eckelberry' (qv).
- Is the highest ranked actress on the "Oracle of Bacon" website (and 21st overall), which uses the IMDB database to determine which actors can be linked by the highest number of other actors in the "Six Degrees of 'Kevin Bacon' (qv)" trivia game.
- The second daughter of William and Elsie Ziegler, her mother, who went by her maiden name of Elsie Reif (1908-1987), was a writer of several prize-winning children's novels; her paternal grandfather was Arthur Ziegler, a classical musician and the first violinist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
- Guitarist Abby Normal featured a song titled "Scream Karen Black" on his solo project album Midnight Creature Feature Picture Show.
- Measurements: 35-24-35 1/2 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- Wrote the songs "Memphis" and "Rolling Stone" which she performed in character as country singer Connie White in the movie _Nashville (1975)_ (qv). As a result she was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Series.
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