Karen Allen

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1951-10-05 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Carrollton, Illinois, USA

Karen Allen

Biography

Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American actress best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Allen has also had roles in films including National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Wanderers (1979), Cruising (1980), Starman (1984), Scrooged (1988), The Sandlot (1993), and Poster Boy (2004).

Acting

1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark

as Marion Ravenwood

1979

2000

The Perfect Storm

as Melissa Brown

1992

Malcolm X

as Miss Dunne

2001

In the Bedroom

as Marla Keyes

1993

1992

The Turning

as Glory Lawson

1978

1993

King of the Hill

as Miss Mathey

1997

'Til There Was You

as Betty Dawkan (Nick's Mom)

1988

Scrooged

as Claire Phillips

1984

Starman

as Jenny Hayden

1980

Cruising

as Nancy Gates

1993

Ghost in the Machine

as Terry Munroe

2003

Plain Dirty

as Butcher Lee

2005

Shaka Zulu: The Citadel

as Katherine Farewell

2011

November Christmas

as Claire Sanford

2000

The Basket

as Bessie Emery

1982

1984

Until September

as Mo Alexander

1987

The Glass Menagerie

as Laura Wingfield

1982

Split Image

as Rebecca / Amy

1999

Falling Sky

as Resse Nicholson

1990

Challenger

as Christa McAuliffe

1987

Terminus

as Gus

2011

2002

World Traveler

as Delores

1980

2024

1993

Voyage

as Catherine 'Kit' Norvell

1988

Backfire

as Mara McAndrew

1991

Sweet Talker

as Julie Maguire

1979

Manhattan

as Television Actor #2

2016

Bad Hurt

as Elaine Kendall

1981

2000

Wind River

as Martha

2004

When Will I Be Loved

as Alexandra Barrie

2016

2024

2009

A Dog Year

as Paula (voice)

1993

Rapture

as Georgianne Corcoran

2019

Colewell

as Nora

1989

Animal Behavior

as Alex Bristow

1990

2001

My Horrible Year!

as Belinda Faulkner

2004

Poster Boy

as Eunice Kray

2021

Things Heard & Seen

as Mare Laughton

2021

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Production

2017

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