Karen Allen

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

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Paula Varney

Law & Order

Judith Sandler

The Graham Norton Show

Self

Blue Bloods

Betty Lowe

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Jackie Foster

Knots Landing

Annie Fairgate

Josh Gates Tonight

Self

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2024	Unsinkable: Titanic Untold	Nancy Smith
2024	A Stage of Twilight	Cora
2024	The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones	Self
2024	The Easy Kind	Kathy
2023	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny	Marion
2023	Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford	Self
2023	Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Aztecs	Marion (voice)
2021	Things Heard & Seen	Mare Laughton
2021	Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age	Self - Actress (archive footage)
2019	Colewell	Nora
2017	A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.	director
2016	Bad Hurt	Elaine Kendall
2016	Year by the Sea	Joan
2011	November Christmas	Claire Sanford
2011	White Irish Drinkers	Margaret
2009	A Dog Year	Paula (voice)
2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Marion Ravenwood
2008	Animal House: The Inside Story	Self
2006	Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills	Self
2005	Shaka Zulu: The Citadel	Katherine Farewell
2004	When Will I Be Loved	Alexandra Barrie
2004	Poster Boy	Eunice Kray
2003	Plain Dirty	Butcher Lee
2003	Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy	self
2002	World Traveler	Delores
2001	In the Bedroom	Marla Keyes
2001	My Horrible Year!	Belinda Faulkner
2000	The Perfect Storm	Melissa Brown
2000	The Basket	Bessie Emery
2000	Wind River	Martha
1999	Falling Sky	Resse Nicholson
1998	The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion	Self - Katy
1997	'Til There Was You	Betty Dawkan (Nick's Mom)
1997	All the Winters that Have Been	Hannah Raven
1996	Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story	Margaret
1993	The Sandlot	Mom
1993	King of the Hill	Miss Mathey
1993	Ghost in the Machine	Terry Munroe
1993	Voyage	Catherine 'Kit' Norvell
1993	Rapture	Georgianne Corcoran
1992	Malcolm X	Miss Dunne
1992	The Turning	Glory Lawson
1992	Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes	(voice)
1992	Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems	(voice)
1991	Sweet Talker	Julie Maguire
1990	Challenger	Christa McAuliffe
1990	Secret Weapon	Ruth
1989	Animal Behavior	Alex Bristow
1988	Scrooged	Claire Phillips
1988	Backfire	Mara McAndrew
1987	The Glass Menagerie	Laura Wingfield
1987	Terminus	Gus
1984	Starman	Jenny Hayden
1984	Until September	Mo Alexander
1982	Shoot the Moon	Sandy
1982	Split Image	Rebecca / Amy
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Marion Ravenwood
1981	The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'	Self
1981	Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark	Self (archive footage)
1980	Cruising	Nancy Gates
1980	A Small Circle of Friends	Jessica Bloom
1979	The Wanderers	Nina
1979	Manhattan	Television Actor #2
1978	Animal House	Katy
1978	Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II	Elizabeth
	The Cutting Room Floor

Year	TV Show	Role
2022	The Last Movie Stars	Frances Woodward (voice)
2022	The Last Movie Stars	Self
2022	The Last Movie Stars	Self / Frances Woodward
2020	50 States of Fright	Sheriff Stallings
2020	Josh Gates Tonight	Self
2010	Blue Bloods	Betty Lowe
2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self
1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Paula Varney
1994	The Road Home	Alison Matson
1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1990	Law & Order	Judith Sandler
1985	The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Jackie Foster
1981	East of Eden	Abra
1979	Knots Landing	Annie Fairgate