Karen Allen

American actress

Person · Open Library

Born: 1951-10-05
Works: 22

Top works

Tale of Yabbuts and Wulbuts
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services
Sketchbook
Crossing the Eastern Front
Language Arts Handbook

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Film & TV

Acting · 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…

Known for

Other Mommy2026
Unsinkable — Nancy Smith2024
A Stage of Twilight — Cora2024
The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones — Self2024
The Easy Kind — Kathy2024
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny — Marion2023

Article

Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American film, television and stage actress. She made her film debut in the comedy film Animal House (1978), which was soon followed by a small role in Woody Allen's romantic comedy-drama Manhattan (1979) and a co-lead role in Philip Kaufman's coming-of-age film The Wanderers (1979), before co-starring opposite Al Pacino in William Friedkin's crime thriller Cruising (1980).

Allen's critical and commercial breakthrough came when she portrayed Marion Ravenwood opposite Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Actress. She later co-starred in Shoot the Moon (1982), Starman (1984), for which she was again nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actress, and Scrooged (1988).