Karen Allen

Karen Jane Allen is an American artiste who played the role of Ravenwood in Raiders of Lost Ark. She was born on October 5, 1951, in Carrollton, Illinois, United States to a teacher Ruth Patricia and Caroll Thompson Allen, who is an FBI agent. She hails from an English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish decent. She is married to Kale Browne and has a child named Nicholas brownie. She is usually seen on TV shows such as East of Eden and The Road Home.

EARLY AGE She is known to have changed many schools as her father moved places and she claims to be deprived of ever having any lasting friendship as a kid. Die was graduated from Duval High School, Maryland at the age of 17. Later she moved to New York Click to look into! >> Read More... city to study fashion designing in Fashion Institute of Technology. She then attended the University of Maryland for almost one and half years then later joined the Shakespeare and company in Massachusetts. She moved on to the city of New York and studied at Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

CAREER She was struck by fame when Allen made her major début in "National Lampoons Animal House in 1978. Her other two films named" The Wanderers " in 1979 and" A small Circle of Friends "in 1980 also gained a lot of popularity. She also appeared as a guest star for a pilot episode in 1979, where she played the role of Annie Farigate, daughter of Don Murray. The twisting tale of her life was when she was seen in the blockbusters movie" Raiders of the Lost Ark" directed by Steve Spielberg. She even led some leading roles in the dramatic thriller "Split Image" in 1982 directed by Ted Kotcheff. She then appeared in many films like "off Broadway", where she played a demanding role of taking the victim, who turns the table on her attacker. Her scene was starred in the American première of Jon Fosses’ "A Summer Day" in a New York theater that had opened in October 2012.

ACHIEVEMENTS Adding to her star-studded career and many appraisals in acting, she is also known to be the author of the books named "The human-animal bond ", An Annotated Bibliography, etc. She is also known as a calm yoga teacher. She is also known to knit the textiles herself and was awarded a honoraries master's degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2009.