Personal Info
Birth date
1958-09-29 (66 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Pequannock, New Jersey, USA
Also known as
-Karen Young
Biography
Karen Young (born 29 September 1958) is an American actress. Born in Pequannock Township, New Jersey, Young studied at Rutgers University. After graduation she moved to New York City and became an actress, appearing in such films as 9½ Weeks, Jaws: The Revenge, Daylight, Mercy and Hoffa. Her ex-husband is Tom Noonan. Young portrayed FBI Agent Robyn Sanseverino on The Sopranos and has portrayed various characters for the Law & Order franchise.
Filmography
Law & Order
7.399
Overview:
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.936
Overview:
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.571
Overview:
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.The Sopranos
8.656
Overview:
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.The Equalizer
7.183
Overview:
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.L.A. Law
7.1
Overview:
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.Third Watch
7.9
Overview:
The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.Nine 1/2 Weeks
6.095
Overview:
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.Jaws: The Revenge
4.073
Overview:
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.Daylight
6.107
Overview:
A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who survived the explosion are now in peril. Kit Latura is the only man with the skill and knowledge to lead the band of survivors out of the tunnel before the structure collapses.Hoffa
6.272
Overview:
A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt.Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
5.5
Overview:
A D.E.A. Agent goes to Columbia to take on the Cartel. He learns that the Cartel is not above killing anyone who opposes them, like judges and Police. Eventually a man who worked for the Cartel, who is in an American prison, offers to help them take down the Cartel. So another Federal Agent poses a money launderer and the try to take the Cartel down.Birdy
7.138
Overview:
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?Maria's Lovers
6.129
Overview:
A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.Conviction
7.068
Overview:
When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18 year quest to free Kenny. With the help of best friend Abra Rice, Betty Anne pores through suspicious evidence mounted by small town cop Nancy Taylor, meticulously retracing the steps that led to Kenny's arrest. Belief in her brother - and her quest for the truth - pushes Betty Anne and her team to uncover the facts and utilize DNA evidence with the hope of exonerating Kenny.Criminal Law
5.6
Overview:
Ben Chase is an on-the-rise Boston attorney currently defending a wealthy client in a high-profile murder case. Martin Thiel is the wealthy young man on trial for a particularly brutal murder. The verdict sets Thiel free. Within 24 hours another grizzly and all-too-familiar murder has taken place with striking similarities to the first crime. Chase inexplicably agrees to act as his defense attorney; but this time it will be to gather evidence that will put away his client for good.Heat
5.8
Overview:
Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together to move to Venice, Italy.Night Game
4.3
Overview:
A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.Factotum
6.171
Overview:
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.Torch Song Trilogy
7.4
Overview:
Arnold is a gay man working as a drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.Mercy
5.2
Overview:
Detective Catherine Palmer is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie, who belongs to an exclusive club of women who engage in secret sessions of bondage and S&M. Matters become even more complicated when Palmer finds herself attracted to Kittrie, leading to a brief lesbian encounter. Palmer soon learns that each victim belonged to this club of prominent, sexually experimental women. In order to catch the killer, Catherine must trust Vickie to guide her through the dangerous and illicit underground.Love & Human Remains
5.826
Overview:
In a Canadian metropolis, failed actor David shares a place with the bookish Candy, whom he dated before coming out as gay. While David, who now waits tables, pursues an aimless romance with a younger coworker, Candy dabbles in both same-sex and heterosexual affairs. As David and Candy's odd assortment of friends — including a telepathic sex worker and an ill-tempered yuppie — pass in and out of their beds, a serial murder stalks the city's women.Joe the King
5.976
Overview:
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother.Handsome Harry
5.688
Overview:
An ex-Navy man carrying out the last wish of a dying shipmate renews contact with old friends to break the code of silence around a mysterious, long-buried crime.Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
5
Overview:
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to bring down billionaire drug lords Don Pablo Escobar Gaviria and José Rodriguez Gacha, leaders of the infamous Medellin Cartel.Almost You
5.3
Overview:
Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and high-paying job, feels trapped. When Erica has an accident that leaves her temporarily confined to a wheelchair and requiring the services of a private nurse, the beautiful Lisa enters the Boyers' lives. A complicated situation develops as Alex sees Lisa as the cure for his own problems as well as his wife's.On the Edge of Innocence
5.333
Overview:
Teenage Zoe Tyler suffers from manic-depression. With a musician father who is never around life seems hard. Zoe eventually lands up in a psychiatric ward for treatment. There she meets Jake, an unstable teenager with an anger problem. They fall in love and are soon separated by their doctors, psychiatrists and parents. Fuming, Jake suddenly sees a chance for escape and takes Zoe with him, along with a few other patients. After a trip around the country, Jake and Zoe must face up to their illness and their crime.Restless
5.1
Overview:
Moshe Amar is a once poet and now a "businessman" who left his wife with their new born in Israel twenty years ago and spent them in the land of limitless possibilities trying to leave a mark of immortality but, up to that point, only got the marks that frantic debt collectors are more than happy to give. Tsach is the abandoned son who is now a skilled sniper in the Israeli Army. Tsach resents his father for both abandoning his mother for 21 years and not attending her funeral.Acting
2014The Sumo Wrestler as Kathy
2012The Man With The Golden Brain as The Mother
2011The Green as Janette
2011The Orphan Killer as Sister Mary
2011Twelve Thirty as Vivien
2010Conviction as Elizabeth Waters
2010Two Gates of Sleep as Bess
2009Handsome Harry as Muriel
2008Restless as Yolanda
2006Heading South as Brenda
2005Factotum as Grace
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent (1 Episode) as Denise Talbott
2000Mercy as Mary
1999Third Watch (1 Episode) as Shirley Holsclaw
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1, 2 Episode) as Christina Nerrit, Dr. Meg Whitmere
1999Joe the King as Theresa Henry
1999The Sopranos (10 Episodes) as Agent Robyn Sanseverino
1998Pants on Fire as Dierdre Grogan
1997On the Edge of Innocence as Victoria Tyler
1996Daylight as Sarah Crighton
1995The Wife as Arlie
1994Love & Human Remains as The Singer
1992Hoffa as Young Woman at RTA
1992Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel as Faye Vaughan
1992Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel (2 Episodes) as Faye Vaughan
1992A Blink of Paradise as Patient
1991The Boy Who Cried Bitch as Candice Love
1991To the Moon, Alice as Alice
1991The 10 Million Dollar Getaway as Theresa
1991The Summer My Father Grew Up as Chandelle
1990Law & Order (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Mrs. Sachs, Cassie Rickman, Leslie Cooper, Ms. Milford
1989Little Sweetheart as Dorothea
1989Night Game as Roxy
1989Criminal Law as Ellen Faulkner
1988Torch Song Trilogy as Laurel
1987Jaws: The Revenge as Carla Brody
1987The Making of Jaws The Revenge as Self
1986The High Price of Passion as Robin Benedict
1986Heat as Holly
1986L.A. Law (1 Episode) as Marcia Trafficante
1986Nine 1/2 Weeks as Sue
1985The Equalizer (1 Episode) as Officer Sandra Stahl
1985Almost You as Lisa Willoughby
1984Birdy as Hannah Rourke
1984Maria's Lovers as Rosie
1983Handgun as Kathleen
Production
1995The Pesky Suitor ... Producer