Only for You, Dr. Jones: A call from Steven Spielberg inviting Karen Allen to join the newest Indiana Jones movie thrust her back into the spotlight.
Karen Allen – IMDb: Karen Allen, Actress: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Karen Jane Allen was born in Carrollton, rural southern Illinois, to Patricia (Howell), a teacher, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent. She spent her first 10 years traveling around the country with her parents and two sisters. She was always “the new girl in school.” Acting did not really cross Allen’s mind until she was in her early 20s, …
Karen Allen at Home in the Berkshires: The actress lives in western Massachusetts where she directs theater, has founded a yoga studio and opened a clothing shop.
A Lifetime of Regret, Born in a Moment: In “Summer Day” Karen Allen’s character revisits an afternoon, decades earlier, when her husband took a boat into the bay near their country house and never returned.
Allen and Riegert tend to the ‘White Irish Drinkers’: Karen Allen, 58, is part Irish, along with English, Welsh and Scottish. Peter Riegert, 63, her onetime Animal House swain, is “Jewish Irish,” he says. “I like Guiness and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I’m good to go.”
Allen and Riegert tend to the ‘White Irish Drinkers’: Karen Allen, 58, is part Irish, along with English, Welsh and Scottish. Peter Riegert, 63, her onetime Animal House swain, is “Jewish Irish,” he says. “I like Guiness and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I’m good to go.”
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American film and stage actress . her stage work has included performances on Broadway . she is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent . her father’s job forced the family to move often . “i grew up moving almost every year and so I was deprived of ever really having any lasting friendships”, Allen said in 1987 . Allen’s next two film appearances were in the Wanderers, in 1979, and A Small Circle of Friends in 1980 . her career-changing role came with the blockbuster hit Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Allen won a Saturn Award for Best Actress for her performance . she debuted on Broadway in the 1982 production The Monday After The Miracle . in 1983, she played the lead in the off-Broadway play Extremities in 1990, she portrayed the doomed crew member Christa McAuliffe in the television movie Challenger . in 2014, she played the role of Betty Lowe in “Unfinished Business” the 13th episode Allen reprised her best-known role as Marion Ravenwood for the 2008 sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . she starred in the American premiere of Jon Fosse’s A Summer Day at the cherrylane Allen made her movie directing debut with the short film, A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. it won the Best International Short at the Manchester Film Festival in March 2017 . Allen played the lead role in 2017’s A Year by Allen and her husband divorced in 1998. Allen accepted smaller roles in TV and films to concentrate on raising Nicholas. Nicholas went on to become a personal chef and win a Chopped competition on the Food Network. as of July 2015, she lives in Massachusetts. She also works as a teacher and stage director and knits.
