Personal Info
Birth date
1951-10-05 (74 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Carrollton, Illinois, USA
Also known as
Karen Jane Allen
کارن آلن
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).
Filmography
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.939
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
7.4
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.Blue Bloods
7.794
Overview:
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.The Graham Norton Show
7.184
Overview:
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.Knots Landing
6.7
Overview:
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
5.4
Overview:
Jay Leno hosts some of the biggest celebrities in the world.Raiders of the Lost Ark
7.924
Overview:
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.176
Overview:
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
6.538
Overview:
Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artifact doesn't fall into the wrong hands.Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
6.018
Overview:
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend—and Indy's colleague—Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.The Sandlot
7.539
Overview:
During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall.Malcolm X
7.545
Overview:
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.The Perfect Storm
6.487
Overview:
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.Unsinkable: Titanic Untold
4.8
Overview:
The true story of rushed investigations, political interference, and the grasp for corporate accountability woven amongst heart wrenching flashbacks of the Titanic disaster as it unfolded.Starman
6.9
Overview:
When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
7.7
Overview:
An in-depth look at an incredible moment in film history when Steven Spielberg and George Lucas assembled an amazing creative team to collaborate on another cinematic benchmark featuring never-before-seen footage and interviews with Spielberg, Lucas, Harrison Ford, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, James Mangold, and many others as well.Manhattan
7.721
Overview:
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.The Easy Kind
NYR
Overview:
A rollicking journey toward true self-expression for Elizabeth Cook, as she breaks through the constraints of country music to become the artist that she's meant to be.Cruising
6.621
Overview:
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.Animal House
6.981
Overview:
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.Scrooged
6.789
Overview:
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.50 States of Fright
7.2
Overview:
A horror anthology series based on urban legends that takes viewers deeper into the horrors that lurk just beneath the surface of America.A Stage of Twilight
6
Overview:
When Barry receives fatal news, he makes a decision to rent a trailer home in the middle of the woods where he can die alone. As the days wind down to his departure, his wife Cora is driven to make a critical decision for them both.Wind River
6
Overview:
The 1854 Wyoming historical drama is based on Tom Shell's adaptation of the true life memoirs of Pony Express rider Nick Wilson.Terminus
3.86
Overview:
An established dystopian sport has drivers of a computerized truck driving cross-country to a terminus. The lead truck, created by a boy genius, is driven by a woman. When the computer guidance system fails, she ends up in uncharted territories and encounters leather-clad hoods who torture her. Meanwhile, a mysterious doctor seems to have another plan in mind.The Last Movie Stars
6.9
Overview:
A celebration of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s iconic careers and decades-long partnership. Director Ethan Hawke brings life and color to this definitive history of their love, lives, and philanthropy.The Wanderers
7
Overview:
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’Things Heard & Seen
5.73
Overview:
Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980 Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, Catherine increasingly finds herself isolated and alone. She soon comes to sense a sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property—and in her marriage to George.Acting
TBAThe Cutting Room Floor as Unknown
2026Other Mommy as Unknown
2024The Easy Kind as Kathy
2024Unsinkable: Titanic Untold as Nancy Smith
2024A Stage of Twilight as Cora
2024The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones as Self
2023Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford as Self
2023Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Aztecs as Marion (voice)
2023Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny as Marion
2022The Last Movie Stars (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Frances Woodward (voice), Self, Self / Frances Woodward
2022Going Home (1 Episode) as Bonnie
2021Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2021Things Heard & Seen as Mare Laughton
202050 States of Fright (3 Episodes) as Sheriff Stallings
2020Josh Gates Tonight (1 Episode) as Self
2019Colewell as Nora
2017A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. as director
2016Year by the Sea as Joan
2016Bad Hurt as Elaine Kendall
2011November Christmas as Claire Sanford
2011White Irish Drinkers as Margaret
2010Blue Bloods (1 Episode) as Betty Lowe
2009A Dog Year as Paula (voice)
2008Animal House: The Inside Story as Self
2008Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Marion Ravenwood
2007The Graham Norton Show (1 Episode) as Self
2006Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills as Self
2005Shaka Zulu: The Citadel as Katherine Farewell
2004When Will I Be Loved as Alexandra Barrie
2004Poster Boy as Eunice Kray
2003Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy as self
2003Plain Dirty as Butcher Lee
2003Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update as Katy Schoenstein
2002World Traveler as Delores
2001In the Bedroom as Marla Keyes
2001My Horrible Year! as Belinda Faulkner
2000The Perfect Storm as Melissa Brown
2000Wind River as Martha
2000The Basket as Bessie Emery
1999Falling Sky as Resse Nicholson
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Paula Varney
1998The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion as Self - Katy
1997All the Winters that Have Been as Hannah Raven
1997'Til There Was You as Betty Dawkan (Nick's Mom)
1996Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story as Margaret
1994The Road Home (6 Episodes) as Alison Matson
1993Ghost in the Machine as Terry Munroe
1993King of the Hill as Miss Mathey
1993Voyage as Catherine 'Kit' Norvell
1993The Sandlot as Mom
1993Rapture as Georgianne Corcoran
1992Malcolm X as Miss Dunne
1992Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems as (voice)
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1992Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes as (voice)
1992The Turning as Glory Lawson
1991Sweet Talker as Julie Maguire
1990Law & Order (1 Episode) as Judith Sandler
1990Secret Weapon as Ruth
1990Challenger as Christa McAuliffe
1989Animal Behavior as Alex Bristow
1988Scrooged as Claire Phillips
1988Backfire as Mara McAndrew
1987The Glass Menagerie as Laura Wingfield
1987Terminus as Gus
1985The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 Episode) as Jackie Foster
1984Starman as Jenny Hayden
1984Until September as Mo Alexander
1982Split Image as Rebecca / Amy
1982Shoot the Moon as Sandy
1981The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' as Self
1981Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark as Self (archive footage)
1981Raiders of the Lost Ark as Marion Ravenwood
1981East of Eden (3 Episodes) as Abra
1981East of Eden (3 Episodes) as Abra
1980A Small Circle of Friends as Jessica Bloom
1980Cruising as Nancy Gates
1979Knots Landing (1 Episode) as Annie Fairgate
1979The Wanderers as Nina
1979Manhattan as Television Actor #2
1978Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II as Elizabeth
1978Animal House as Katy
Directing
2017A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. ... Director
Writing
2017A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. ... Screenplay