Karen Allen
Born: 1951-10-05 in Carrollton, Illinois, USA
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2026
2024
- The Easy Kind as Kathy
- Unsinkable as Nancy Smith
- The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones as Self
- A Stage of Twilight as Cora
2023
2022
- The Last Movie Stars as Frances Woodward (voice)
- Going Home as Bonnie
2021
- Things Heard & Seen as Mare Laughton
- Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2020
- 50 States of Fright as Sheriff Stallings
- Josh Gates Tonight as Self
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
2010
- Blue Bloods as Betty Lowe
2009
- A Dog Year as Paula (voice)
2008
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Marion Ravenwood
- Animal House: The Inside Story as Self
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006
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
- Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update as Katy Schoenstein
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
- The Basket as Bessie Emery
- Wind River as Martha
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Paula Varney
- Falling Sky as Resse Nicholson
1998
- The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion as Self - Katy
1997
- 'Til There Was You as Betty Dawkan
- All the Winters that Have Been as Hannah Raven
1996
- Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story as Margaret
1994
- The Road Home as Alison Matson
1993
- The Sandlot as Mom
- Ghost in the Machine as Terry Munroe
- King of the Hill as Miss Mathey
- Voyage as Catherine 'Kit' Norvell
- Rapture as Georgianne Corcoran
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Malcolm X as Miss Dunne
- The Turning as Glory Lawson
- Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems as (voice)
- Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes as (voice)
1991
- Sweet Talker as Julie Maguire
1990
- Law & Order as Judith Sandler
- Challenger as Christa McAuliffe
- Secret Weapon as Ruth
1989
- Animal Behavior as Alex Bristow
1987
- The Glass Menagerie as Laura Wingfield
- Terminus as Gus
1985
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Jackie Foster
1984
- Starman as Jenny Hayden
- Until September as Mo Alexander
1982
- Split Image as Rebecca / Amy
- Shoot the Moon as Sandy
1981
- Raiders of the Lost Ark as Marion Ravenwood
- East of Eden as Abra
- Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark as Self (archive footage)
- The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' as Self
1980
- Fridays as Self
- Cruising as Nancy Gates
- A Small Circle of Friends as Jessica Bloom
1979
- Knots Landing as Annie Fairgate
- Manhattan as Television Actor #2
- The Wanderers as Nina
1978
- Animal House as Katy
- Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II as Elizabeth