“It was thrilling to see. She had the highest octane.”
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Karen Black
Karen Blanche Black was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She rose to prominence for her work in studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portraying eccentric and offbeat characters, and established herself as a figure of New Hollywood. Her career spanned 50 years and includes nearly 200 credits in both independent and mainstream films. Black received numerous…
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entertainment · American actress, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter (1939–2013) · actor · singer · screenwriter · singer-songwriter · composer · television actor · stage actor · film actor · also Karen Black, Karen Blanche Black, Black
Born 1 July 1939 · Died 8 August 2013 · Q232333
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2026· 3 entries
“Thank you all for all your prayers and love, they meant so much to her as they did to me.”
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“that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!”
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2022· 1 entry
At age 42, was a prosecutor for San Diego County and ran for city council in 2012 and 2014
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Dreaming of You (1971–76)”.
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2013· 3 entries
Died 2013-08-08.
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Black died at West Hills Hospital in Los Angeles, from the ampullary cancer, aged 74
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Black and Eckelberry remained married until her death in 2013.
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2009· 1 entry
Black worked with director Steve Balderson for Stuck
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2008· 1 entry
That she had acted only in "about 14" out of her wide-ranging filmography
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2007· 1 entry
Touring the show around the United States
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2005· 1 entry
Black received the Best Actress Award at the Fantasporto International Film Festival in Porto, Portugal, for her work in the critically acclaimed Steve Balderson film Firecracker (2005), in which she played two roles, Sa
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2004· 1 entry
By Howard Feinstein in the LGBT magazine The Advocate as "Hollywood's off-center icon
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2003· 1 entry
The film received largely unfavorable reviews, though it helped cement Black's status as a cult icon in the horror genre
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2000· 1 entry
Black began filming Rob Zombie's directorial debut House of 1000 Corpses, in which she portrayed Mother Firefly, the matron of a family of psychotic murderers
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1998· 1 entry
Including the camp comedy I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, the drama Charades, as well as the short film Waiting for Dr
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1996· 1 entry
Black appeared as a paranoid mother in small-town Nebraska in Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering, opposite Naomi Watts
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1995· 1 entry
Starred in Plan 10 from Outer Space, a science fiction satire of Mormon theology, directed by Trent Harris
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1993· 1 entry
Black had a supporting role in George Sluizer's drama Dark Blood opposite River Phoenix and Judy Davis, a film that remained incomplete and unreleased for two decades after Phoenix died during the production
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1990· 1 entry
Black had a supporting role in The Children (1990), a British adaptation of a novel by Edith Wharton, opposite Ben Kingsley, and in the science fiction comedy Zapped Again
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1989· 2 entries
In 1989, when Hunter was 13, he decided to go live with his father and stepmother in Dallas and did not see Black for a decade.
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When Hunter was 13, he decided to go live with his father and stepmother in Dallas and did not see Black for a decade
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1987· 1 entry
And adopted a daughter, Celine (born November 22, 1987), who acted with her parents in the film Movies Money Murder
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1986· 1 entry
Black co-starred with her son, Hunter, in Tobe Hooper's science fiction horror film Invaders from Mars
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1985· 1 entry
Including the Italian exploitation horror film Cut and Run, directed by Ruggero Deodato; the Canadian supernatural horror film The Blue Man; and the action film Savage Dawn, co-starring with Lance Henriksen as a kidnappe
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1982· 2 entries
Black starred opposite Cher and Sandy Dennis in a Robert Altman-directed Broadway production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
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Black played a transsexual in the Robert Altman-directed Broadway debut of Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, a role she reprised in Altman's subsequent film adaptation
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1981· 1 entry
Black announced her engagement to Michael Raeburn, who wrote the screenplay for her low-budget star vehicle Killing Heat
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1980· 2 entries
Black starred in a made-for-TV movie Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
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Black and Carson separated in 1980 and divorced in 1983.
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1979· 1 entry
Black appeared in the erotic drama In Praise of Older Women, which she regretted because she thought its title aged her
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award for Burnt Offerings (1977).
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1976· 1 entry
Black appeared as a femme fatale jewel thief in Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot
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1975· 1 entry
Played multiple roles in Dan Curtis' televised anthology film Trilogy of Terror: The segments, all written by Richard Matheson, were named after the women involved in the plot — a plain college professor seemingly se
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1973· 1 entry
Black married actor Robert "Skip" Burton
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1969· 1 entry
Playing the role of an acid-tripping prostitute opposite Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in the counterculture film Easy Rider; the first choice for the role was Lana Wood, who had turned it down
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1967· 1 entry
Appeared in guest roles in several television series, including The F
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1966· 1 entry
Appeared with José Ferrer in a stage production of After the Fall at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, earning an Angel award for best supporting actress
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1965· 1 entry
Before making her major film debut in Francis Ford Coppola's You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
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1964· 2 entries
Black became a Scientologist, and practiced it for the remainder of her life
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“I know a cure for everything. Salt water.”
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1960· 1 entry
Black moved to New York City to pursue an acting career, residing in a cold water flat in Manhattan
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1939· 3 entries
In Park Ridge, Illinois, the third child of Elsie Mary (née Reif), a writer of several prize-winning children's novels, and Norman Arthur Ziegler, an engineer and businessman
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Born 1939-07-01.
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“in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
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