• Name: Karen Allen
  
• Birth Name: Karen Jane Allen
  
• Height: 5' 7"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: October 5, 1951
  
• Birth Place: Carrollton, Illinois
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: Du Val High School in Glenndale Maryland (graduated in 1969)
  
•   : The Washingon Theatre Laboratory
  
•   : Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute
  
•   : New York's Fashion institure of Technology (majored in Design)
  
• Husband/Wife: Kale Browne (divorced)
  
• Relationship: Stephen Bishop (musician)
  
• Father: Carroll Thompson Allen (FBI Agent)
  
• Mother: Patricia A. Howell (a school teacher)
  
• Sister: 2 sisters
  
• Son: Nicholas (born on on September 14, 1990)
  
• Claim to fame: as Marion Ravenwood in the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  

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• "I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York."
• "[They were] a small group of actors in their 20s, run by a man who had experience with Peter Brook and Grotowski, and I spent five years with them, producing, directing and acting."
• "I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House."
• "Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality."

• Saturn Award: Best Actress, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1982)
• Theatre World Award: Best New Actress, MONDAY AFTER THE MIRACLE (1983)

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