Karen Allen
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Karen Allen

Born 5 October 1951 · Carrollton, Illinois, USA
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Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American actress best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Allen has also had roles in films including National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Wanderers (1979), Cruising (1980), Starman (1984), Scrooged (1988), The Sandlot (1993), and Poster Boy (2004).

Known for

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Perfect Storm
Manhattan
Malcolm X
Scrooged
Animal House
The Sandlot
Things Heard & Seen
Starman
Other Mommy
Unsinkable
A Stage of Twilight
The Easy Kind
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Things Heard & Seen
Colewell
A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
Bad Hurt
Year by the Sea
White Irish Drinkers
November Christmas
A Dog Year
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Shaka Zulu: The Citadel
When Will I Be Loved
Poster Boy
Plain Dirty
World Traveler
In the Bedroom
My Horrible Year!
The Perfect Storm
The Basket
Wind River
Falling Sky
'Til There Was You
All the Winters that Have Been
Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story
The Sandlot
King of the Hill
Ghost in the Machine
Voyage
Rapture
Malcolm X
The Turning
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
Sweet Talker
Challenger
Secret Weapon
Animal Behavior
Scrooged
Backfire
The Glass Menagerie
Terminus
Starman
Until September
Split Image
Shoot the Moon
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Cruising
A Small Circle of Friends
The Wanderers
Manhattan
Animal House
Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
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