. . . Where Are They Now? . . .Hello fans,Today we are catching up with Karen Allen, who created the role of Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark. In recent years, she hasn't had as many credits to her name, but that's only because she has been involved with some of her other interests. Let's catch up with her now!
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Vincent Price: Star of countless horror movies, including "Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"
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(Answer at the bottom)*Karen AllenLearn More About Karen Allen on Celebrity Nooz BIRTH DATE: October 5, 1951, Carrollton, Illinois
CLAIM TO FAME: Karen made her major film debut in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and Hollywood took notice. Her next big break came in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) where she created the role of "Marion Ravenwood".
FAMILY LIFE: Kale Browne (1 May 1988 - 1997) (divorced) 1 son.
Son, Nicholas, born on September 14th 1990.
Lived with musician Stephen Bishop.
INFO: Born in rural southern Illinois, Karen spent her first 10 years traveling around the country with her mother, her FBI agent father, and two sisters. At 17, after graduating from high school, Karen moved to New York to study art and design. She later attended the University of Maryland and spent time traveling through South and Central America. In 1974 Karen joined a theatre group and 3 years later moved back to New York and studied with the Lee Strasberg Institute.
TRIVIA: Overcame temporary blindness caused by Kerato Conjunctivitis in 1978. She later won major theatre awards for playing a blind woman in "Monday Before the Miracle" and "Miracle Worker, The".
Considered for the role of Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars, later cast in the George Lucas-produced Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Studied in the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
Attended the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City at the age of seventeen to study apparel design but her life took a different course after encountering the experimental theater of Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Theatre Laboratory.
In 1995 she founded the Berkshire Mountain Yoga in Massachussets.
Has two sisters.
Graduated in 1969 from the DuVal High School in Glenndale Maryland.
Studied in the Washington Theater Laboratory.
Studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
Voted one of the most beautiful women in the world by the readers of Harpers Bazaar Magazine in 1983.
WHERE IS SHE NOW: An accomplished hand knitting fanatic, Karen runs her own knitwear design studio, "Karen Allen Fiber Arts" that she started in 2004 in Massachussets.
She reprised her role as Marion Ravenwood in the fourth installment of the Indiana Jones series with Harrison Ford and director Steven Spielberg which was released in 2008.
Allen also teaches acting at Bard College at Simon's Rock, located in Great Barrington. She also teaches yoga. She currently lives in Monterey, Massachusetts.
WRITE TO KAREN ALLEN: Karen Allen
Karen Allen Fiber Arts
35 Railroad Street
Great Barrington, MA 01230
* CREDITS:2012 The Tin Star (TV movie)...Eliza Flynn
2011 I Am Number Four...Sam's Mom (scenes deleted) (uncredited)
2010 November Christmas (TV movie)...Claire Sanford
2010 White Irish Drinkers...Margaret
2009 A Dog Year...Paula (voice)
2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull...Marion Ravenwood
2004 When Will I Be Loved...Alexandra Barrie
2004 Poster Boy...Eunice Kray
2003 Briar Patch...Butcher Lee
2003 Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update (video short)...Katy Schoenstein
2003/I The Root
2001 Shaka Zulu: The Citadel (TV movie)...Katherine Farewell
2001 World Traveler...Delores
2001 My Horrible Year! (TV movie)...Belinda Faulkner
2001 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series)...Paula Varney
Scourge (2001)
2001 In the Bedroom...Marla Keyes
2000 The Perfect Storm...Melissa Brown
2000 Wind River...Martha (Wilson)
1999 Falling Sky...Resse Nicholson
1999 The Basket...Bessie Emery
1997 All the Winters That Have Been (TV movie)...Hannah Raven
1997 'Til There Was You...Betty Dawkan
1996 Law & Order (TV series)...Judith Sandler
Survivor (1996)
1996 Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story (TV movie)...Margaret
1996 Ripper (Video Game)...Dr. Clare Burton
1994 The Road Home (TV series)...Alison Matson
1993 Ghost in the Machine...Terry Munroe
1993 King of the Hill...Miss Mathey
1993 Voyage (TV movie)...Catherine 'Kit' Norvell
1993 The Sandlot...Mom
1993 Rapture (TV movie)...Georgianne Corcoran
1992 Malcolm X...Miss Dunne
1992 The Turning...Glory Lawson
1992 Nonesense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes (video)
1992 Nonesense and Lullabyes: Poems (video)
1991 Sweet Talker...Julie Maguire
1990 Secret Weapon (TV movie)...Ruth
1990 Challenger (TV movie)...Christa McAuliffe
1989 Animal Behavior...Alex Bristow
1988 Scrooged...Claire Phillips
1988 Backfire...Mara McAndrew
1987 The Glass Menagerie...Laura Wingfield
1987 Terminus...Gus
1986 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series)...Jackie Foster
The Creeper (1986)
1984 Starman...Jenny Hayden
1984 Until September...Mo Alexander
1982 Split Image...Rebecca/Amy
1982 Shoot the Moon...Sandy
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark...Marion Ravenwood
1981 East of Eden (TV mini-series)...Abra
Part Three (1981) ... Abra
1980 A Small Circle of Friends...Jessica Bloom
1980 Cruising...Nancy
1979 Knots Landing (TV series) ...Annie
Pilot (1979)
1979 The Wanderers...Nina
1979 Manhattan...Television Actor #2
1978 Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II (TV movie)...Elizabeth
1978 Animal House...Katy
To see Then & Now pictures of Karen Allen, visit: Celebrity Nooz*--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--Vincent Price - DEAD (cancer)
Born: 05/27/1911 Died: 10/25/93
Johnny Whitaker - ALIVE
Born: 12/13/1959
Bernie Kopell - ALIVE
Born: 06/21/1933
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Eddy Doorenbos, 91, Dutch jazz singer and composer.
Ellen Einan, 81, Norwegian poet.
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Herman Emmink, 86, Dutch singer and television host.
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Lou Sleater, 88, American baseball pitcher (Baltimore Orioles), lung disease.
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