Karen Black
Filmography
Film Source:"Karen Black". IMDb.

Karen Black

Section Title: Filmography
Table Section Text: Film Source:"Karen Black". IMDb.

Year	Title	Role	Notes

1960	The Prime Time	Betty - Painted Woman

1966	You're a Big Boy Now	Amy Partlett

1969	Hard Contract	Ellen

Easy Rider	Karen

1970	Five Easy Pieces	Rayette Dipesto	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture (tied with Maureen Stapleton for Airport) Laurel Award for Star of Tomorrow (runner-up) Laurel Award for Top Female Supporting Performance (runner-up) National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (runner-up) New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress

1971	Drive, He Said	Olive

A Gunfight	Jenny Simms

Born to Win	Parm

1972	Cisco Pike	Sue

Portnoy's Complaint	Mary Jane Reid - The Monkey

1973	Little Laura and Big John	Laura

The Pyx	Elizabeth Lucy

The Outfit	Bett Harrow

1974	Rhinoceros	Daisy

The Great Gatsby	Myrtle Wilson	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture

Law and Disorder	Gloria

Airport 1975	Nancy Pryor

1975	Trilogy of Terror	Julie Millicent Larimore Therese Larimore Amelia	TV movie

The Day of the Locust	Faye Greener	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

Nashville	Connie White	Nominated—Grammy Award for Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special

1976	Crime and Passion	Susan Winters

Family Plot	Fran

Burnt Offerings	Marian Rolf	Sitges-Catalan International Film Festival Best Actress Award

1977	Capricorn One	Judy Drinkwater

1978	The Rip-Off	Clarisse Saunders

In Praise of Older Women	Maya

1979	Killer Fish	Kate Neville

The Last Word	Paula Herbert

1980	Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop	Officer Evelyn Carter	TV movie

1981	Separate Ways	Valentine Colby

Killing Heat	Mary Turner

Chanel Solitaire	Emilienne d'Alençon

1982	The Last Horror Film	Karen Black	Uncredited

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean	Joanne

Miss Right	Amy

1983	Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?	Zee

1984	Bad Manners	Gladys Fitzpatrick	(also released as Growing Pains)

A Stroke of Genius

1985	Martin's Day	Karen

Cut and Run	Karin

The Blue Man aka Eternal Evil	Janus

Savage Dawn	Rachel

1986	Flight of the Spruce Goose	Gloria

Invaders from Mars	Linda Magnusson

Hostage	Laura Lawrence

1987	It's Alive III: Island of the Alive	Ellen Jarvis

1988	The Invisible Kid	Deborah Dunn

Dixie Lanes	Zelma Putnam

Out of the Dark	Ruth Wilson

1989	Homer and Eddie	Belle

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway	Martha Gelhorn

1990	Overexposed	Mrs. Trowbridge

Twisted Justice	Mrs. Granger

Zapped Again!	Substitute Teacher

Night Angel	Rita

Club Fed	Sally Rich

Mirror, Mirror	Susan Gordon

The Children	Sybil Lullmer

Fatal Encounter

Evil Spirits	Ella Purdy

1991	Caged Fear	Blanche

Rubin and Ed	Rula

Children of the Night	Karen Thompson

The Roller Blade Seven	Tarot

1992	The Player	Herself

Tuesday Never Comes	Michelle

Judgment	Tiffany Powers

Auntie Lee's Meat Pies	Auntie Lee

The Legend of the Roller Blade Seven	Tarot

The Double 0 Kid	Mrs. Elliot

1993	Bound and Gagged: A Love Story	Carla

The Trust	Maria Vandermeer

Dark Blood	Motel Woman	(completed in 2012)

Return of the Roller Blade Seven	Tarot

1994	Too Bad About Jack

1995	Plan 10 from Outer Space	Nehor

The Wacky Adventures of Dr. Boris and Nurse Shirley	Evelyn

Starstruck	Bertha

1996	Sister Island (orig. Cries Of Silence)	Rose Walsh

Crimetime	Millicent

Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering	June Rhodes

Movies Money Murder	Bettie

Every Minute is Goodbye	Schubert

Dinosaur Valley Girls	Ro-Kell

1997	Stir	Dr. Gabrielle Kessler

Conceiving Ada	Lady Byron Mother Coer

Men	Alex	also screenwriter

Dogtown	Rose Van Horn	Hermosa Beach Film Festival Best Actress Award (also for Sugar: The Fall of the West)

Modern Rhapsody

1998	I Woke Up Early The Day I Died	Whip Lady

Sugar: The Fall of the West

Bury the Evidence	The Mother

Malaika	Jessica Martin

Charades	Jude

Waiting for Dr. MacGuffin	Dental Assistant	Short film

Stripping for Jesus	Short film

Light Speed	High Priestess

1999	The Underground Comedy Movie	Mother

Mascara	Aunt Eloise

Paradise Cove	Ma

2000	Fallen Arches	Lucy Romano	Chicago Alt. Film Festival Best Actress Award

Red Dirt	Aunt Summer

Oliver Twisted	Mrs. Mary Happ

Inviati speciali

The Independent	Herself

2001	The Donor	Mrs. Springle

Gypsy 83	Bambi LeBleau

Hard Luck	Aunt Judy

Soulkeeper	Magnificent Martha

2002	Teknolust	Dirty Dick

Curse of the Forty-Niner	Aunt Nelly

2003	House of 1000 Corpses	Mother Firefly	Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actress

Paris	Chantrelle

Buttleman	Mrs. Buttleman

Summer Solstice	Dr. Sally McDermott

2004	America Brown	Marianne Brown

Birth of Industry	Sara	Short film

2005	Compartment	Kate Burns	Voice

My Suicidal Sweetheart	Grace's Mom	(released as Crazy for Love)

Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula	Agrippina	Short film

Firecracker	Sandra Eleanor	International Fantasy Film Award for Best Actress New York VisionFest Outstanding Achievement Award

Dr. Rage	Molly

2006	Hollywood Dreams	Luna

Read You Like a Book	Kate

Whitepaddy	Mrs. Leider

2007	Suffering Man's Charity	Renee

One Long Night	Barbara

2008	Contamination	Mavis

Watercolors	Mrs. Martin

The Blue Tooth Virgin	Zena

A Single Woman	Storyteller

2009	Meet the Eye	Short film

Irene in Time	Sheila Shivvers

Repo Chick	Aunt de la Chasse

Stuck!	Next Door Neighbor Lady

Double Duty	Annabelle

First Time Long Time	Dr. Shneidel	Short film

2010	Nothing Special	May

2011	Some Guy Who Kills People	Ruth Boyd

Letters from the Big Man	Sean's Colleague

OowieWanna	The Donna	Short film

Maria My Love	Maria

2012	Mommy's Little Monster	Mrs. Melnick

Warnings from the Bathtub	Mother	Short film

Vacationland	Louise Bergen

Dark Blood	Motel Woman

2013	Ooga Booga	Mrs. Allardyce

She Loves Me Not	Karla

Bottomless Pit	Herself	Unfinished film by Zach Hill

2014	Wild in Blue	Justine

A Walk Into a Split Mind	Karen

5th Annual World Music & Independent Film Festival	Herself

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In 1980, Black starred in a TV movie Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop.

final_sentence: In 1980, Black starred in a TV movie Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop.