Actor
· Acting
Karen Allen
Born 1951-10-05
📍 Carrollton, Illinois, USA
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).
Filmography 79
Other Mommy
2026
The Easy Kind
as Kathy
2024
Unsinkable
as Nancy Smith
2024
A Stage of Twilight
as Cora
2024
The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones
as Self
2024
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
as Self
2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
as Marion
2023
The Last Movie Stars
as Frances Woodward (voice)
2022
The Last Movie Stars
as Self
2022
The Last Movie Stars
as Self / Frances Woodward
2022
Going Home
as Bonnie
2022
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2021
Things Heard & Seen
as Mare Laughton
2021
50 States of Fright
as Sheriff Stallings
2020
Josh Gates Tonight
as Self
2020
Colewell
as Nora
2019
A Tree a Rock a Cloud
as director
2017
Year by the Sea
as Joan
2016
Bad Hurt
as Elaine Kendall
2016
November Christmas
as Claire Sanford
2011
White Irish Drinkers
as Margaret
2011
Blue Bloods
as Betty Lowe
2010
A Dog Year
as Paula (voice)
2009
Animal House: The Inside Story
as Self
2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
as Marion Ravenwood
2008
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
Shaka Zulu: The Citadel
as Katherine Farewell
2005
When Will I Be Loved
as Alexandra Barrie
2004
Poster Boy
as Eunice Kray
2004
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
as self
2003
Plain Dirty
as Butcher Lee
2003
World Traveler
as Delores
2002
In the Bedroom
as Marla Keyes
2001
My Horrible Year!
as Belinda Faulkner
2001
The Perfect Storm
as Melissa Brown
2000
Wind River
as Martha
2000
The Basket
as Bessie Emery
2000
Falling Sky
as Resse Nicholson
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Paula Varney
1999
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
as Self - Katy
1998
All the Winters that Have Been
as Hannah Raven
1997
'Til There Was You
as Betty Dawkan
1997
Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story
as Margaret
1996
Ghost in the Machine
as Terry Munroe
1993
King of the Hill
as Miss Mathey
1993
Voyage
as Catherine 'Kit' Norvell
1993
The Sandlot
as Mom
1993
Rapture
as Georgianne Corcoran
1993
Malcolm X
as Miss Dunne
1992
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
as (voice)
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
as (voice)
1992
The Turning
as Glory Lawson
1992
Sweet Talker
as Julie Maguire
1991
Law & Order
as Judith Sandler
1990
Secret Weapon
as Ruth
1990
Challenger
as Christa McAuliffe
1990
Animal Behavior
as Alex Bristow
1989
Scrooged
as Claire Phillips
1988
Backfire
as Mara McAndrew
1988
The Glass Menagerie
as Laura Wingfield
1987
Terminus
as Gus
1987
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Jackie Foster
1985
Starman
as Jenny Hayden
1984
Until September
as Mo Alexander
1984
Split Image
as Rebecca / Amy
1982
Shoot the Moon
as Sandy
1982
The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
as Self
1981
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
as Self (archive footage)
1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark
as Marion Ravenwood
1981
East of Eden
as Abra
1981
Fridays
as Self
1980
A Small Circle of Friends
as Jessica Bloom
1980
Cruising
as Nancy Gates
1980
Knots Landing
as Annie Fairgate
1979
The Wanderers
as Nina
1979
Manhattan
as Television Actor #2
1979
Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
as Elizabeth
1978
Animal House
as Katy
1978