Karen Allen

ActorDirectorWriter Oct 5 (age 74) Carrollton, Illinois, USA 1978–2026 (48 year career)

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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

Film

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Marion Ravenwood

Film

Manhattan

Television Actor #2

Film

Malcolm X

Miss Dunne

Film

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Marion Ravenwood

Film

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Marion

Film

The Sandlot

Mom

Film

Animal House

Katy

Film

The Perfect Storm

Melissa Brown

Filmography

Acting (83)

Movies (68)

Other Mommy

2026 Upcoming

Oct 9

A Stage of Twilight

2024

as Cora

4.5

The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones

2024

as Self

6.0

The Easy Kind

2024

as Kathy

Unsinkable

2024

as Nancy Smith

5.6

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

2023

as Marion

6.5

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford

2023

as Self

7.7

Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Aztecs

2023

as Marion (voice)

Things Heard & Seen

2021

as Mare Laughton

5.7

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

2021

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

7.9

Colewell

2019

as Nora

5.5

A Tree a Rock a Cloud

as director

Year by the Sea

as Joan

Bad Hurt

as Elaine Kendall

White Irish Drinkers

as Margaret

November Christmas

as Claire Sanford

A Dog Year

as Paula (voice)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

2008

as Marion Ravenwood

6.0

Animal House: The Inside Story

2008

as Self

4.0

Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills

2006

as Self

8.2

Shaka Zulu: The Citadel

2005

as Katherine Farewell

When Will I Be Loved

as Alexandra Barrie

Poster Boy

as Eunice Kray

Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update

2003

as Katy Schoenstein

Plain Dirty

2003

as Butcher Lee

4.4

Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

as self

World Traveler

as Delores

In the Bedroom

as Marla Keyes

My Horrible Year!

as Belinda Faulkner

The Perfect Storm

as Melissa Brown

Wind River

as Martha

The Basket

as Bessie Emery

Falling Sky

as Resse Nicholson

The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion

1998

as Self - Katy

7.0

All the Winters that Have Been

1997

as Hannah Raven

4.5

'Til There Was You

1997

as Betty Dawkan (Nick's Mom)

3.8

Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story

as Margaret

The Sandlot

as Mom

King of the Hill

as Miss Mathey

Ghost in the Machine

as Terry Munroe

Voyage

as Catherine 'Kit' Norvell

4.9

Rapture

1993

as Georgianne Corcoran

Malcolm X

as Miss Dunne

The Turning

as Glory Lawson

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes

1992

as (voice)

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems

1992

as (voice)

Sweet Talker

as Julie Maguire

Secret Weapon

as Ruth

Challenger

as Christa McAuliffe

Animal Behavior

as Alex Bristow

Scrooged

as Claire Phillips

Backfire

as Mara McAndrew

Terminus

as Gus

The Glass Menagerie

as Laura Wingfield

Starman

as Jenny Hayden

Until September

as Mo Alexander

Split Image

as Rebecca / Amy

Shoot the Moon

as Sandy

Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981

as Marion Ravenwood

7.9

The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

1981

as Self

7.2

Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Cruising

1980

as Nancy Gates

6.6

A Small Circle of Friends

1980

as Jessica Bloom

5.9

Manhattan

1979

as Television Actor #2

The Wanderers

as Nina

Animal House

as Katy

Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II

1978

as Elizabeth

5.0

The Cutting Room Floor

Television (15)

The Last Movie Stars

2022

as Self / Frances Woodward

6.9

Going Home

2022

as Bonnie

50 States of Fright

as Sheriff Stallings

Josh Gates Tonight

as Self

Blue Bloods

as Betty Lowe

The Graham Norton Show

2007

as Self

7.2

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

as Paula Varney

7.9

The Road Home

1994

as Alison Matson

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Law & Order

as Judith Sandler

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Jackie Foster

East of Eden

as Abra

East of Eden

as Abra

Fridays

as Self

Knots Landing

as Annie Fairgate

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

A Tree a Rock a Cloud

2017

Director

9.0

A Tree a Rock a Cloud

2017

Screenplay

9.0