Oct 5, 1951 - Carrollton, Illinois, USA
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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| Movie | 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Marion Ravenwood | |
| Movie | 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Marion Ravenwood | |
| Movie | 1979 | The Wanderers | Nina | |
| Movie | 2000 | The Perfect Storm | Melissa Brown | |
| Movie | 1992 | Malcolm X | Miss Dunne | |
| Movie | 2001 | In the Bedroom | Marla Keyes | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Sandlot | Mom | |
| Movie | 1992 | The Turning | Glory Lawson | |
| Movie | 1978 | Animal House | Katy | |
| Movie | 1993 | King of the Hill | Miss Mathey | |
| Movie | 1997 | 'Til There Was You | Betty Dawkan (Nick's Mom) | |
| Movie | 1988 | Scrooged | Claire Phillips | |
| Movie | 1984 | Starman | Jenny Hayden | |
| Movie | 1980 | Cruising | Nancy Gates | |
| Movie | 1993 | Ghost in the Machine | Terry Munroe | |
| Movie | 2006 | Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills | Self | |
| Movie | 2003 | Plain Dirty | Butcher Lee | |
| Movie | 2005 | Shaka Zulu: The Citadel | Katherine Farewell | |
| Movie | 2011 | November Christmas | Claire Sanford | |
| Movie | 2000 | The Basket | Bessie Emery | |
| Movie | 1982 | Shoot the Moon | Sandy | |
| Movie | 1984 | Until September | Mo Alexander | |
| Movie | 1987 | The Glass Menagerie | Laura Wingfield | |
| Movie | 1982 | Split Image | Rebecca / Amy | |
| Movie | 1999 | Falling Sky | Resse Nicholson | |
| Movie | 1990 | Challenger | Christa McAuliffe | |
| Movie | 2023 | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | Marion | |
| Movie | 1987 | Terminus | Gus | |
| Movie | 2011 | White Irish Drinkers | Margaret | |
| Movie | 2002 | World Traveler | Delores | |
| Movie | 1980 | A Small Circle of Friends | Jessica Bloom | |
| Movie | 2024 | Unsinkable: Titanic Untold | Nancy Smith | |
| Movie | 1993 | Voyage | Catherine 'Kit' Norvell | |
| Movie | 1988 | Backfire | Mara McAndrew | |
| Movie | 1991 | Sweet Talker | Julie Maguire | |
| Movie | 1992 | Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes | (voice) | |
| Movie | 1992 | Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems | (voice) | |
| Movie | 1979 | Manhattan | Television Actor #2 | |
| Movie | 2024 | A Stage of Twilight | Cora | |
| Movie | 1978 | Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II | Elizabeth | |
| Movie | 1996 | Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story | Margaret | |
| Movie | 2024 | The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | Bad Hurt | Elaine Kendall | |
| Movie | 2023 | Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford | Self | |
| Movie | 1981 | The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' | Self | |
| Movie | 1981 | Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2000 | Wind River | Martha | |
| Movie | 2023 | Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Aztecs | Marion (voice) | |
| Movie | 2004 | When Will I Be Loved | Alexandra Barrie | |
| Movie | 2016 | Year by the Sea | Joan | |
| Movie | 2024 | The Easy Kind | Kathy | |
| Movie | 2009 | A Dog Year | Paula (voice) | |
| Movie | 2017 | A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. | director | |
| Movie | 1997 | All the Winters that Have Been | Hannah Raven | |
| Movie | 1993 | Rapture | Georgianne Corcoran | |
| Movie | 2019 | Colewell | Nora | |
| Movie | 1989 | Animal Behavior | Alex Bristow | |
| Movie | 1990 | Secret Weapon | Ruth | |
| Movie | 1998 | The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion | Self - Katy | |
| Movie | 2008 | Animal House: The Inside Story | Self | |
| Movie | 2001 | My Horrible Year! | Belinda Faulkner | |
| Movie | 2004 | Poster Boy | Eunice Kray | |
| Movie | 2021 | Things Heard & Seen | Mare Laughton | |
| Movie | 2021 | Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age | Self - Actress (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2003 | Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy | self | |
| Movie | N/A | The Cutting Room Floor | ||
| Movie | 2026 | Other Mommy | ||
| TV Show | 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Paula Varney | 1 |
| TV Show | 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 2 | |
| TV Show | 1979 | Knots Landing | Annie Fairgate | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | The Road Home | Alison Matson | 6 |
| TV Show | 1981 | East of Eden | Abra | 3 |
| TV Show | 2020 | 50 States of Fright | Sheriff Stallings | 3 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Blue Bloods | Betty Lowe | 1 |
| TV Show | 2020 | Josh Gates Tonight | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1990 | Law & Order | Judith Sandler | 1 |
| TV Show | 2022 | The Last Movie Stars | Frances Woodward (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2022 | The Last Movie Stars | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2022 | The Last Movie Stars | Self / Frances Woodward | 1 |
| TV Show | 1985 | The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Jackie Foster | 1 |
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| Movie | 2017 | A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2017 | A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. | Screenplay | Writing |
