Karen Allen
Gender: Female
Born: 5th October 1951 (currently 60 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: My Horrible Year!, The Road Home, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Movies: A Small Circle of Friends, Challenger, Cruising, Ghost in the Machine, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Scrooged, Starman, Until September, Poster Boy, The Turning, The Wanderers, The Perfect Storm, Malcolm X, Backfire, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Falling Sky, All the Winters that Have Been, Sweet Talker, National Lampoon's Animal House, The Glass Menagerie, Shoot the Moon, World Traveler, The Sandlot, Wind River, Shaka Zulu: The Last Great Warrior, In the Bedroom, 'Til There Was You, The Basket, The Sandlot 2, Briar Patch, When Will I Be Loved, White Irish Drinkers, Split Image, King of the Hill
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).
Allen was born in Carrollton, in rural western Illinois, the daughter of Patricia Allen (née Howell), a teacher, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent. She is of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent. Allen spent her first 10 years traveling around the country with her parents and two sisters. After she graduated from DuVal Senior High School, in Lanham, Maryland, at 17, she moved to New York City to study art and design at Fashion Institute of Technology. She later attended the University of Maryland, College Park, and spent time traveling through South and Central America. In 1974, Allen joined Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts and, three years later, moved back to New York City and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
In 1978, Allen made her major film debut,
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