Karen Allen

Acting · Born 1951-10-05 · Carrollton, Illinois, USA

Biography

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

• Other Mommy (2026)
• Unsinkable (2024)
• A Stage of Twilight (2024)
• The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones (2024)
• The Easy Kind (2024)
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
• Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford (2023)
• Things Heard & Seen (2021)
• Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age (2021)
• Colewell (2019)
• A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. (2017)
• Bad Hurt (2016)
• Year by the Sea (2016)
• November Christmas (2011)
• White Irish Drinkers (2011)
• A Dog Year (2009)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
• Animal House: The Inside Story (2008)
• Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills (2006)
• Shaka Zulu: The Citadel (2005)
• When Will I Be Loved (2004)
• Poster Boy (2004)
• Plain Dirty (2003)
• Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy (2003)