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Karen Allen

Karen Jane Allen 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).

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Born 5 October 1951 · Q229137

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Awarded Theatre World Award (1983).
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2024· 1 entry

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Starred in Unsinkable: Titanic Untold as Nancy Smith, the wife of U

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2016· 1 entry

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Allen made her movie directing debut with the short film, A Tree

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2015· 1 entry

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As of July 2015, Allen lives in Massachusetts.

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2014· 1 entry

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Played the role of Betty Lowe in "Unfinished Business", the 13th episode of the 4th season of the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods

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2003· 2 entries

2003Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Allen started her own textile company, Karen Allen Fiber Arts, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts

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2003Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

In 2003, Allen started her own textile company, Karen Allen Fiber Arts, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

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1990· 1 entry

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Portrayed the doomed crew member Christa McAuliffe in the television movie Challenger, based on the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

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1988· 2 entries

1988Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Allen married actor Kale Browne and had a son, Nicholas, in 1990

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1988Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Allen returned to the big screen as Bill Murray's long-lost love, Claire, in the Christmas comedy Scrooged

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1983· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1983Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Theatre World Award (1983).

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1983Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Played the lead in the off-Broadway play Extremities, a physically demanding role about a woman who turns the tables on a would-be rapist who attacks her

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1981· 1 entry

1981Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

When she appeared in the play Two for the Seesaw at the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts

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1979· 1 entry

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And A Small Circle of Friends in 1980, where she played one of three radical college students during the 1960s

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1974· 1 entry

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Allen joined Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts

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1969· 1 entry

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Moved to New York City to study art and design at Fashion Institute of Technology for two years

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1951· 2 entries

Oct 5, 1951Documented record86% confidence

Born 1951-10-05.

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Oct 5, 1951Documented record70% confidence

In Carrollton, Illinois, to Ruth Patricia (née Howell) (1927–2020), a university professor, and Carroll Thompson Allen (1925–2015), an FBI agent

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