Karen Allen
Born in Carrollton, Illinois, USA — Oct 05 1951
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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).
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Karen Allen's Credits
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Paula Varney
Law & Order
Judith Sandler
Knots Landing
Annie Fairgate
Blue Bloods
Betty Lowe
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Jackie Foster
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Marion Ravenwood
Fridays
Self
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Marion
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Marion Ravenwood
50 States of Fright
Sheriff Stallings
Malcolm X
Miss Dunne
The Last Movie Stars
Frances Woodward (voice)
The Perfect Storm
Melissa Brown
Animal House
Katy
Manhattan
Television Actor #2
Cruising
Nancy Gates
The Sandlot
Mom
In the Bedroom
Marla Keyes
Going Home
Bonnie
Things Heard & Seen
Mare Laughton
Starman
Jenny Hayden
Scrooged
Claire Phillips
East of Eden
Abra
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
Self
Voyage
Catherine 'Kit' Norvell
The Wanderers
Nina
Shoot the Moon
Sandy
Ghost in the Machine
Terry Munroe
Split Image
Rebecca / Amy
The Road Home
Alison Matson
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
self
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Other Mommy
King of the Hill
Miss Mathey
East of Eden
Abra
Backfire
Mara McAndrew
Challenger
Christa McAuliffe
When Will I Be Loved
Alexandra Barrie
Terminus
Gus
Colewell
Nora
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
Self - Katy
A Dog Year
Paula (voice)
The Turning
Glory Lawson
'Til There Was You
Betty Dawkan
Animal House: The Inside Story
Self
Falling Sky
Resse Nicholson
Until September
Mo Alexander
Sweet Talker
Julie Maguire
Plain Dirty
Butcher Lee
Wind River
Martha
Poster Boy
Eunice Kray
Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story
Margaret
The Basket
Bessie Emery
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Self (archive footage)
Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills
Self
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
Self
A Small Circle of Friends
Jessica Bloom
Secret Weapon
Ruth
World Traveler
Delores
White Irish Drinkers
Margaret
The Glass Menagerie
Laura Wingfield
All the Winters that Have Been
Hannah Raven
November Christmas
Claire Sanford
The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones
Self
Animal Behavior
Alex Bristow
The Easy Kind
Kathy
The Cutting Room Floor
Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
Elizabeth
Bad Hurt
Elaine Kendall
A Stage of Twilight
Cora
Shaka Zulu: The Citadel
Katherine Farewell
Rapture
Georgianne Corcoran
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
(voice)
Year by the Sea
Joan
Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update
Katy Schoenstein
Unsinkable
Nancy Smith
My Horrible Year!
Belinda Faulkner
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
(voice)
A Tree a Rock a Cloud
director