MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
Birth name Karen Jane Allen
American nationality
Birth October 5, 1951 (Carrolton, Illinois – United States)
BIOGRAPHY
A student at the University of Maryland then at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, Karen Allen debuted on the big screen in 1978 in American College , a comedy by John Landis . A year later, she landed a small role in Woody Allen ‘s Manhattan , before appearing in William Friedkin ‘s Cruising (1980). It was in 1981 and in front of Steven Spielberg ‘s camera that Karren Allen revealed herself to the general public, with her role as Marion, former girlfriend of Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark . New notable role in 1984 with Starman by John Carpenter , where the actress plays the captive and then friend of the extra-terrestrial Jeff Bridges . Terminus followed alongside Johnny Hallyday (1986) and Fantomes en fete by Richard Donner (1988), still in the field of more or less serious science fiction. Rarer on the big screen in the 90s due to theatrical activity and the birth of her son, Karen Allen appeared in Malcolm X in 1992, then in King of the Hill by Steven Soderbergh a year later. In 2000, the actress starred in the blockbuster In the Storm , before turning to the independent and multi-awarded drama In the Bedroom in 2001.
