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).
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Complete Filmography
The Easy Kind
2024
as Kathy
A rollicking journey toward true self-expression for Elizabeth Cook, as she breaks through the constraints of country music to become the artist that ...

Unsinkable: Titanic Untold
2024
as Nancy Smith
The true story of rushed investigations, political interference, and the grasp for corporate accountability woven amongst heart wrenching flashbacks o...

A Stage of Twilight
2024
as Cora
When Barry receives fatal news, he makes a decision to rent a trailer home in the middle of the woods where he can die alone. As the days wind down to...

The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones
2024
as Self
Greg James and Maisie Adam will team up to tackle some of the classic Indiana Jones stunts – we’re talking dodging poisonous darts, outrunning giant b...

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
2023
as Self
An in-depth look at an incredible moment in film history when Steven Spielberg and George Lucas assembled an amazing creative team to collaborate on a...
Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Aztecs
2023
as Marion (voice)
"Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Aztecs" is an Indiana Jones fan film created by the Oliver Springs Music Club (Formally the Parkview Music Club...

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023
as Marion
Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacle...

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
2021
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Hawaii, May 1977. After the success of Star Wars, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg meet to find a new project to work on together, the former as prod...

Things Heard & Seen
2021
as Mare Laughton
Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980 Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a j...

Colewell
2019
as Nora
In tiny Colewell, Pennsylvania, the residents gather at the post office for mail and gossip, while the days pass quiet and serene. That is until news ...

A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
2017
as director
Set at a roadside café in the early morning in the Spring of 1947, a young boy and an older man meet by chance. The man relates a luminous tale of per...

A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
2017
Director, Screenplay
Set at a roadside café in the early morning in the Spring of 1947, a young boy and an older man meet by chance. The man relates a luminous tale of per...

Year by the Sea
2016
as Joan
Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children, an empty nester retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free.

Bad Hurt
2016
as Elaine Kendall
Elaine and Ed Kendall have more than their share of grief and suffering. Once a young couple in love they now struggle for a sense of stability in the...

November Christmas
2011
as Claire Sanford
A young father asks for pumpkins at the local farm stand. "In August? No." the farmer replies. The farmer ruminates on the odd request and gets involv...

White Irish Drinkers
2011
as Margaret
A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but in...

A Dog Year
2009
as Paula (voice)
Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answer...

Animal House: The Inside Story
2008
as Self
Documentary about the making of Animal House

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
as Marion Ravenwood
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a my...
Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills
2006
as Self
A look behind the scenes at Cortlandt Hull's "The Witch's Dungeon," a movie-themed Halloween attraction in Bristol, Connecticut -- now the longest-run...

Shaka Zulu: The Citadel
2005
as Katherine Farewell
The saga of legendary African warrior Shaka Zulu comes to the screen in this continuation of the timeless tale from original miniseries creator Joshua...

When Will I Be Loved
2004
as Alexandra Barrie
Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.

Poster Boy
2004
as Eunice Kray
The gay son of a conservative senator who is also the poster boy for his father's re-election unknowingly befriends a gay activist bent on destroying ...

Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
2003
as self
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Trilogy.

Plain Dirty
2003
as Butcher Lee
Inez Macbeth is a pretty young woman married to Edgar, a moody and unstable felon. When Inez becomes interested in the sensitive and wealthy lawyer Dr...

World Traveler
2002
as Delores
After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.

In the Bedroom
2001
as Marla Keyes
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his ...

My Horrible Year!
2001
as Belinda Faulkner
A teenage girl plots to keep her parents' marriage together, erroneously thinking they're considering divorce.

The Perfect Storm
2000
as Melissa Brown
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing b...

Wind River
2000
as Martha
The 1854 Wyoming historical drama is based on Tom Shell's adaptation of the true life memoirs of Pony Express rider Nick Wilson.

The Basket
2000
as Bessie Emery
Peter Coyote (E.T., Erin Brokovich) and Karen Allen (The Perfect Storm) star in this touching family drama about the unifying power of basketball in a...

Falling Sky
1999
as Resse Nicholson
Pulling up stakes for a fresh start in Las Vegas, aspiring singer Reese and daughter Emily are looking forward to the future with optimism. But mom's ...

The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
1998
as Self - Katy
This documentary, created for the Animal House (1978) collector's edition DVD, is composed of a collection of new interviews with the cast and crew be...

All the Winters that Have Been
1997
as Hannah Raven
Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him agai...

'Til There Was You
1997
as Betty Dawkan (Nick's Mom)
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.

Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story
1996
as Margaret
Kerry Ellison is sexually harassed at work. No matter how much she complains, the problem, Jack Gilcrest, is unstoppable. Kerry's only left option is ...

Ghost in the Machine
1993
as Terry Munroe
After a freak, fatal accident, the soul Karl—aka The Address Book Killer—ends up trapped in the electrical grid. He targets Terry and her son for his ...

King of the Hill
1993
as Miss Mathey
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a h...

Voyage
1993
as Catherine 'Kit' Norvell
Morgan and Catherine Norvell have their future plans ready. In Monte Carlo, their sailboat is stocked. From there they are going to sail to Malta and ...

The Sandlot
1993
as Mom
During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confront...

Rapture
1993
as Georgianne Corcoran
A computer software designer becomes obsessed with his now-married high-school crush of 20 years before.

Malcolm X
1992
as Miss Dunne
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he b...

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
1992
as (voice)
This animated anthology is comprised of eighteen updated nursery rhymes and features such celebrity narrators as Eli Wallach, Linda Hunt and Karen All...

Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
1992
as (voice)
This animated anthology is comprised of eighteen updated nursery rhymes and features such celebrity narrators as Eli Wallach, Linda Hunt and Karen All...

The Turning
1992
as Glory Lawson
Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rag...

Sweet Talker
1991
as Julie Maguire
When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an ol...

Secret Weapon
1990
as Ruth
Fact-based story of an Israeli government agent assigned to use her beauty as well as intelligence to snag a man on the run with atomic secrets.

Challenger
1990
as Christa McAuliffe
A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its e...

Animal Behavior
1989
as Alex Bristow
Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machines, she teaches the chimps simple sign language. H...

Scrooged
1988
as Claire Phillips
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after fi...

Backfire
1988
as Mara McAndrew
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsiv...

The Glass Menagerie
1987
as Laura Wingfield
An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

Terminus
1987
as Gus
An established dystopian sport has drivers of a computerized truck driving cross-country to a terminus. The lead truck, created by a boy genius, is dr...

Starman
1984
as Jenny Hayden
When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.

Until September
1984
as Mo Alexander
American tour guide Mo Alexander misses her tour group, and then her flight out of Paris. Stuck in the city of romance, Mo runs into the very suave --...

Split Image
1982
as Rebecca / Amy
An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's pare...

Shoot the Moon
1982
as Sandy
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.

The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
1981
as Self
One of the first 'Making of...' movies to become a hit in its own right.
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary hosted by Harrison Ford about the stunts of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
as Marion Ravenwood
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legen...

A Small Circle of Friends
1980
as Jessica Bloom
In the late 1960s, three Harvard students Jessica, Leo and Nick grow close as they undergo personal changes, but their friendship is jeopardized by ro...

Cruising
1980
as Nancy Gates
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltra...

The Wanderers
1979
as Nina
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by R...

Manhattan
1979
as Television Actor #2
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best fr...

Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
1978
as Elizabeth
A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a new student who is considered to be "untrainable" ...

Animal House
1978
as Katy
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
The Cutting Room Floor
N/A
An aspiring film editor receives the opportunity of a lifetime but sees her world begin to spiral out of control when the film starts to mirror her ow...