
Karen Allen
October 5, 1951 (74 years old) in Carrollton, Illinois, USA
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
Credits
- 2024 · The Easy Kind as Kathy
- 2024 · Unsinkable: Titanic Untold as Nancy Smith
- 2024 · A Stage of Twilight as Cora
- 2023 · Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford as Self
- 2023 · Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny as Marion
- 2022 · The Last Movie Stars as Frances Woodward (voice)
- 2022 · The Last Movie Stars as Self
- 2022 · The Last Movie Stars as Self / Frances Woodward
- 2021 · Things Heard & Seen as Mare Laughton
- 2020 · 50 States of Fright as Sheriff Stallings
- 2016 · Year by the Sea as Joan
- 2016 · Bad Hurt as Elaine Kendall
- 2011 · White Irish Drinkers as Margaret
- 2010 · Blue Bloods as Betty Lowe
- 2008 · Animal House: The Inside Story as Self
- 2008 · Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Marion Ravenwood
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills as Self
- 2000 · The Perfect Storm as Melissa Brown
- 2000 · Wind River as Martha
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Paula Varney
- 1993 · Ghost in the Machine as Terry Munroe
- 1993 · King of the Hill as Miss Mathey
- 1993 · The Sandlot as Mom
- 1992 · Malcolm X as Miss Dunne
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1990 · Law & Order as Judith Sandler
- 1990 · Challenger as Christa McAuliffe
- 1989 · Animal Behavior as Alex Bristow
- 1988 · Scrooged as Claire Phillips
- 1988 · Backfire as Mara McAndrew
- 1987 · The Glass Menagerie as Laura Wingfield
- 1987 · Terminus as Gus
- 1985 · The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Jackie Foster
- 1984 · Starman as Jenny Hayden
- 1981 · Raiders of the Lost Ark as Marion Ravenwood
- 1980 · Cruising as Nancy Gates
- 1979 · Knots Landing as Annie Fairgate
- 1979 · The Wanderers as Nina
- 1979 · Manhattan as Television Actor #2
- 1978 · Animal House as Katy
- Future · The Cutting Room Floor as
- 2026 · Other Mommy as
- 2024 · The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones as Self
- 2023 · Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Aztecs as Marion (voice)
- 2022 · Going Home as Bonnie
- 2021 · Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- 2020 · Josh Gates Tonight as Self
- 2019 · Colewell as Nora
- 2017 · A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. as director
- 2011 · November Christmas as Claire Sanford
- 2009 · A Dog Year as Paula (voice)
- 2005 · Shaka Zulu: The Citadel as Katherine Farewell
- 2004 · When Will I Be Loved as Alexandra Barrie
- 2004 · Poster Boy as Eunice Kray
- 2003 · Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy as self
- 2003 · Plain Dirty as Butcher Lee
- 2003 · Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update as Katy Schoenstein
- 2002 · World Traveler as Delores
- 2001 · In the Bedroom as Marla Keyes
- 2001 · My Horrible Year! as Belinda Faulkner
- 2000 · 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
- 1997 · 'Til There Was You as Betty Dawkan (Nick's Mom)
- 1996 · Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story as Margaret
- 1994 · The Road Home as Alison Matson
- 1993 · Voyage as Catherine 'Kit' Norvell
- 1993 · Rapture as Georgianne Corcoran
- 1992 · Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems as (voice)
- 1992 · Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes as (voice)
- 1992 · The Turning as Glory Lawson
- 1991 · Sweet Talker as Julie Maguire
- 1990 · Secret Weapon as Ruth
- 1984 · Until September as Mo Alexander
- 1982 · Split Image as Rebecca / Amy
- 1982 · Shoot the Moon as Sandy
- 1981 · The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' as Self
- 1981 · Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark as Self (archive footage)
- 1981 · East of Eden as Abra
- 1981 · East of Eden as Abra
- 1980 · A Small Circle of Friends as Jessica Bloom
- 1978 · Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II as Elizabeth