Where Are They Now - Friday, July 15, 2016
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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Steve
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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":
Vincent Price: Star of countless horror movies, including "Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"
Johnny Whitaker: He was Jody in the TV series "Family Affair", also appeared in the movie "The Biscuit Eater" and the TV series "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters"
Ronald Colman: Silent movie star who later was equally successful in the sound era, starred in "The Prisoner of Zenda", "A Double Life" and other movies
(Answer at the bottom)
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Karen Allen
Learn 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:
2016 Year by the Sea...Joan
2015 Bad Hurt...Elaine Kendall
2014 Blue Bloods (TV Series)...Betty Lowe
Unfinished Business (2014)
2012 The Tin Star (TV movie)...Eliza Flynn
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)
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
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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Vincent Price - DEAD (cancer)
Born: 05/27/1911 Died: 10/25/93
Johnny Whitaker - ALIVE
Born: 12/13/1959
Ronald Colman - DEAD (Infection)
Born: 02/09/1891 Died: 05/19/1958
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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
7/14
Helena Benitez, 102, Filipino politician and educator, Senator (1967-1972).
Donald Stewart, 87, Australian judge, chairman of the National Crime Authority.
Hallard White, 87, New Zealand rugby union player (national team, Auckland), Alzheimer's disease.
7/13
Héctor Babenco, 70, Argentine-born Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ironweed, Carandiru), heart attack.
Garry N. Drummond, 78, American coal executive, Chairman and CEO of Drummond Company.
El Lebrijano, 74, Spanish flamenco singer.
Robert Foster, 53, Australian artist and industrial designer, traffic collision.
Bernardo Provenzano, 83, Italian criminal, head of the Corleonesi Mafia faction, complications from bladder cancer.
Abu Omar al-Shishani, 30, Georgian jihadist, commander for ISIL (since 2013), air strike.
Demontez Stitt, 27, American basketball player (Clemson Tigers), suspected heart attack.
Steven Young, British musician (Colourbox, MARRS).
7/12
Lorenzo Amurri, 45, Italian author.
Joseph Antic, 90, Indian field hockey player, Olympic silver medalist (1960).
Goran Hadzic, 57, Serbian politician and alleged war criminal, President of Krajina (1992-1994), brain cancer.
Peter Johnson, 78, Australian rugby union player.
Agha Nasir, 79, Indian-born Pakistani broadcaster.
Miriam Pielhau (de), 41, German television presenter and author, liver cancer.
Antonín Rükl, 83, Czech astronomer.
Zygmunt Zimowski, 67, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Radom (2002-2009), President of the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers (since 2009), pancreatic cancer.
7/11
John Brademas, 89, American politician and educator, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Indiana's 3rd district (1959-1981), President of N.Y.U. (1981-1991).
Edmond L. Browning, 87, American Episcopal bishop, 24th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (1985-1997).
Emma Cohen, 69, Spanish actress (The Glass Ceiling, Voyage to Nowhere, The Grandfather), cancer.
Frederick D'Souza, 81, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jhansi (1977-2012).
Elaine Fantham, 83, British classicist.
Corrado Farina, 77, Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist (Baba Yaga).
Jim Metzen, 72, American politician, member (since 1987) and President (2003-2011) of the Minnesota Senate, and House of Representatives (1975-1987), lung cancer.
David Sandler, 59, American industrial equipment executive, CEO of MSC Industrial Direct, pancreatic cancer.
Sir Frederick Smith, 92, Barbadian barrister and politician, Attorney-General of Barbados (1966-1971).
Jusztin Nándor Takács, 89, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Székesfehérvár (1991-2003).
Jana Thiel (de), 44, German television presenter (ZDF).
Scott Olin Wright, 93, American judge, member of the U.S. District Court for Western Missouri (since 1979).