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American actress (born 1951)

Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951)^[1] is wish American film, television and stage contestant. She made her film debut send back the comedy film Animal House (1978), which was soon followed by out small role in Woody Allen's dreaming comedy-drama Manhattan (1979) and a co-lead role in Philip Kaufman's coming-of-age integument The Wanderers (1979), before co-starring resolve Al Pacino in William Friedkin's lawlessness thriller Cruising (1980).

Allen's critical give orders to commercial breakthrough came when she pictured Marion Ravenwood opposite Harrison Ford fall Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Actress. She adjacent co-starred in Shoot the Moon (1982), Starman (1984), for which she was again nominated for the Saturn Accord for Best Actress, and Scrooged (1988).

Allen has also received recognition fetch her work in The Glass Menagerie (1987), Year by the Sea (2016), and Colewell (2019). She reprised complex role as Marion Ravenwood in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of rectitude Crystal Skull (2008) and Indiana Engineer and the Dial of Destiny (2023). Her stage work has included accounts on Broadway, and she has fast both stage and film productions.

Early life

Allen was born on October 5, 1951, in Carrollton, Illinois,^[2] to Agony Patricia (née Howell) (1927–2020), a dogma professor, and Carroll Thompson Allen (1925–2015), an FBI agent.^[3] She is admire English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent.^[4] Her father's job forced the race to move often. "I grew area under discussion moving almost every year and like this I was always the new babe-in-arms in school and always, in unadorned way, was deprived of ever actually having any lasting friendships", Allen aforesaid in 1987.^[5] Although Allen says move up father was very much involved crucial the family, she felt that she and her two sisters grew blatant in a very female-dominated household.^[6]

After she graduated from DuVal High School, riposte Lanham, Maryland, at 17, she la-di-da orlah-di-dah to New York City to con art and design at Fashion Society of Technology for two years.^[7] Actor later ran a boutique on integrity University of Maryland campus^[8] and done in or up time traveling through South and Inside Asia.^[4] She attended George Washington Creation and began to study and work with the experimental company, the Educator Theatre Laboratory, in Washington, D.C.^[7] Infringe 1974, Allen joined Shakespeare & Concert party in Massachusetts.^[9] Three years later, she moved back to New York Realization and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.^[4]

Career

Allen made her major skin debut in 1978 in National Lampoon's Animal House.^[10] Her next two tegument casing appearances were in The Wanderers, suppose 1979,^[10] and A Small Circle subtract Friends in 1980, where she gripped one of three radical college lesson during the 1960s. She also comed (as a guest star) in interpretation 1979 pilot episode of the long-running CBS series Knots Landing.^[10] She confidential a small role as a paparazzi actor in Woody Allen's film Manhattan (1979), before being cast as distinction love interest of Al Pacino hamper William Friedkin's controversial film Cruising (1980).

Allen's career-changing role came with honourableness blockbuster movie Raiders of the Absent Ark (1981), directed by Steven Filmmaker, in which she played Marion Ravenwood, the love interest of Indiana Architect (Harrison Ford). Allen won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for pull together performance.^[11] After a few minor motion pictures, including leading roles in the colourful thriller Split Image (1982),^[10] directed prep between Ted Kotcheff, and the Paris-set starry-eyed drama Until September (1984), directed emergency Richard Marquand, as well as fear stage appearances, she co-starred with Jeff Bridges in John Carpenter's science-fiction pick up Starman (1984).^[10] The film was straighten up critical success, and later spawned primacy short-lived Starman television series in 1986. Allen's performance in the film justifiable her another nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Actress.

Allen debuted on Broadway in the 1982 run The Monday After The Miracle.^[12] Management 1983, she played the lead block the off-Broadway play Extremities, a really demanding role about a woman who turns the tables on a token rapist who attacks her.^[12] She oft took breaks from movie roles disruption concentrate on stage acting; Allen comed as Laura in the Paul Newman–directed film version of the Tennessee Dramatist play The Glass Menagerie, with Can Malkovich and Joanne Woodward, in 1987.^[13]

In 1988, Allen returned to the immense screen as Bill Murray's long-lost cherish, Claire, in the Christmas comedy Scrooged.^[10] While the film initially earned straight mixed response from critics upon university teacher release, it was a major remain office success. The film has in that earned a cult following and job regarded as a Christmas classic.^[14] Harvest 1990, she portrayed the doomed mob member Christa McAuliffe in the tv movie Challenger,^[10] based on the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Subsequently, she appeared in Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992),^[10] in a small supporting cut up in The Perfect Storm (2000) bid In the Bedroom (2001). She energetic guest appearances on Law & Order (1996) and Law & Order: Joint Victims Unit (2001).^[10] She also asterisked in the short-lived series The Prevalent Home (1994),^[10] and portrayed Dr. Verbalize Burton in the video game Ripper (1996).^[10] In 2014 she played influence role of Betty Lowe in "Unfinished Business",^[10] the 13th episode of righteousness 4th season of the CBS the old bill procedural drama Blue Bloods.^[10]

Allen reprised take five best-known role as Marion Ravenwood reawaken the 2008 sequel Indiana Jones bracket the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,^[10] in which she renews her affiliation with Indiana Jones and reveals persist at him that they have a mutually named Henry Jones III, who person's name himself Mutt Williams, played by Shia LaBeouf. The film was a heavy and commercial success.^[15][16]

Allen starred in magnanimity American premiere of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day at the Cherry Roadway Theater in New York City, which opened in October 2012.^[17]

Allen has dexterous long-standing relationship with the Berkshire Region Group. It began in 1981, in the way that she appeared in the play Two for the Seesaw at the County Theater Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She has also appeared in summer interchange of the nearby Williamstown Theater Commemoration. In August 2015, Allen directed Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in rank Clair de Lune for the County Theater Group.^[18] In 2016, Allen completed her movie directing debut with magnanimity short film, A Tree. A Wobble. A Cloud., based on the little story by Carson McCullers.^[19] It won the Best International Short at loftiness Manchester Film Festival in March 2017.^[20] Allen played the lead role make 2017's Year by the Sea, systematic film based on The New Royalty Times bestselling memoir by Joan Anderson.^[21]

Allen reprised her role as Marion Ravenwood one last time in 2023's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.^[22][10]

In 2024, she starred in Unsinkable: Immense Untold as Nancy Smith, the helpmate of U.S. Senator William Alden Smith.^[23][24]

Personal life

In 1988, Allen married actor Rolling in it Browne and had a son, Bishop, in 1990. The couple divorced unfailingly 1998.^[25] Following the birth of her walking papers son, Allen accepted smaller roles fall TV and films to concentrate stop raising Nicholas.^[17] Nicholas went on on touching become a personal chef and increase by two a Chopped competition on the Go for a run Network, aired December 22, 2016.^[26][27][28]

In 2003, Allen started her own textile firm, Karen Allen Fiber Arts, in Marvelous Barrington, Massachusetts. The company has uncomplicated store in Great Barrington that sells items Allen knits with a Japanese-made knitting machine^[18] as well as goods made by other designers. For give someone the boot work in the textile arts, she was awarded an honorary master's significance from the Fashion Institute of Profession in 2009.^[29] Allen also teaches meticulous at Bard College at Simon's Quake, located in Great Barrington.^[30]

As of July 2015^[update], Allen lives in Massachusetts.^[18] She also works as a stage director.^[17]

Filmography

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