Karen Allen

Personal Info

Birthday

October 5, 1951

(73 years old)

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).

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order

Blue Bloods

Knots Landing

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

The Last Movie Stars

Filmography

2024
The Easy Kind
as Kathy
Unsinkable: Titanic Untold
as Nancy Smith
A Stage of Twilight
as Cora
The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones
as Self
2023
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
as Self
Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Aztecs
as Marion (voice)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
as Marion
2021
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Things Heard & Seen
as Mare Laughton
2019
Colewell
as Nora
2017
A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
as director
2016
Year by the Sea
as Joan
Bad Hurt
as Elaine Kendall
2011
November Christmas
as Claire Sanford
White Irish Drinkers
as Margaret
2009
A Dog Year
as Paula (voice)
2008
Animal House: The Inside Story
as Self
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
as Marion Ravenwood
2006
Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills
as Self
2005
Shaka Zulu: The Citadel
as Katherine Farewell
2004
When Will I Be Loved
as Alexandra Barrie
Poster Boy
as Eunice Kray
2003
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
as self
Plain Dirty
as Butcher Lee
2002
World Traveler
as Delores
2001
In the Bedroom
as Marla Keyes
My Horrible Year!
as Belinda Faulkner
2000
The Perfect Storm
as Melissa Brown
Wind River
as Martha
The Basket
as Bessie Emery
1999
Falling Sky
as Resse Nicholson
1998
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
as Self - Katy
1997
All the Winters that Have Been
as Hannah Raven
'Til There Was You
as Betty Dawkan (Nick's Mom)
1996
Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story
as Margaret
1993
Ghost in the Machine
as Terry Munroe
King of the Hill
as Miss Mathey
Voyage
as Catherine 'Kit' Norvell
The Sandlot
as Mom
Rapture
as Georgianne Corcoran
1992
Malcolm X
as Miss Dunne
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
as (voice)
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
as (voice)
The Turning
as Glory Lawson
1991
Sweet Talker
as Julie Maguire
1990
Secret Weapon
as Ruth
Challenger
as Christa McAuliffe
1989
Animal Behavior
as Alex Bristow
1988
Scrooged
as Claire Phillips
Backfire
as Mara McAndrew
1987
The Glass Menagerie
as Laura Wingfield
Terminus
as Gus
1984
Starman
as Jenny Hayden
Until September
as Mo Alexander
1982
Split Image
as Rebecca / Amy
Shoot the Moon
as Sandy
1981
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
as Self
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
as Self (archive footage)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
as Marion Ravenwood
1980
A Small Circle of Friends
as Jessica Bloom
Cruising
as Nancy Gates
1979
The Wanderers
as Nina
Manhattan
as Television Actor #2
1978
Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
as Elizabeth
Animal House
as Katy