Karen Allen facts
- Karen Jane Allen is an American actress, who is 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).
Overcame temporary blindness caused by Kerato Conjunctivitis in 1978.
- Allen was born in Carrollton, rural western Illinois, the daughter of Patricia Allen (née Howell), a teacher, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent.
- Lived with musician Stephen Bishop.
- After Karen Allen graduated from DuVal Senior High School, in Lanham, Maryland, at 17, she moved to New York City to study art and design at Fashion Institute of Technology.
- Founded Berkshire Mountain Yoga in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in June of 1995.
- Karen Allen co-starred with Jeff Bridges in the science-fiction film Starman (1984).
- In the mid-1970's, when she lived in Washington, D.C., one of Karen's boyfriends was writer Terence Winch. He wrote about their relationship in a story called The Age of Transition in his book Contenders.
- Karen Allen debuted on Broadway, in the 1982 production The Monday After The Miracle.
- In 1990, she portrayed the doomed crew member Christa McAuliffe in the controversial television movie Challenger, based on the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- Saturn Award: Best Actress, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1982)
- Theatre World Award: Best New Actress, MONDAY AFTER THE MIRACLE (1983)
- In 1988, Karen Allen married actor Kale Browne.
