Karen Jane Allen is an American film and stage actress. She became best known for her portrayal of Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Allen reprised her best-known role for the 2008 sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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Karen Jane Allen is an American film and stage actress. She became best known for her portrayal of Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Allen reprised her best-known role for the 2008 sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. She also co-starred in Starman and Scrooged. Her stage work has included performances on Broadway, and she has directed both for stage and film. Allen has a long-standing relationship with the Berkshire Theater Group in Berkshire, Massachusetts. In August 2015, Allen directed Terrence McNally’s A Summer Day at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City. It began in 1981, when she appeared in the play Two for the Seesawesaw Festival in Berkshire.
She has also appeared in summer theater productions of Frankie and Johnny in Lune de Lune and Johnny and the Lune Group in the Berkshires. She is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent. Her father’s job forced the family to move often. Allen says her father was very much involved in the family, but she felt that her two sisters and she grew up in a very female-dominated household. She was born in Carrollton, Illinois, to Ruth Patricia, a university professor, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent.
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