Karen Allen - wikipedia Karen Allen Karen Allen Karen Allen at the opening of A Year by the Sea, Coconut Creek, Florida in February 2017. Karen Jane Allen ( 1951 - 10 - 05 ) October 5, 1951 ( age 66 ) Carrollton, Illinois, U.S. Occupation Actress Years active 1977 -- present Spouse ( s ) Kale Browne ( m. 1988 ; div. 1998 ) Children Website karenallen-actor-director.com Karen Jane Allen ( born October 5, 1951 ) is an American film and stage actress. After making her film debut in Animal House ( 1978 ), she became best known for her portrayal of Marion Ravenwood opposite Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark ( 1981 ), a role she later reprised for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ). She also co-starred in Starman ( 1984 ) and Scrooged ( 1988 ). Her stage work has included performances on Broadway. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links Early life Allen was born in Carrollton, Illinois, to Ruth Patricia ( née Howell ), a teacher, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent. She is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent. Her father 's job forced the family to move often. `` I grew up moving almost every year and so I was always the new kid in school and always in a way was deprived of ever really having any lasting friendships '', Allen said in 1987. Although Allen says her father was very much involved in the family, she felt that she and her two sisters grew up in a very female - dominated household. After she graduated from DuVal High School, in Lanham, Maryland, at 17, she moved to New York City to study art and design at Fashion Institute of Technology for two years. She later ran a boutique on the University of Maryland campus and spent time traveling through South and Central America. She attended George Washington University and began to study and perform with the experimental company, The Washington Theatre Laboratory, in Washington, D.C. In 1974, Allen joined Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts. Three years later, she moved back to New York City and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. Career Allen made her major film debut in 1978, in National Lampoon 's Animal House. Her next two film appearances were in The Wanderers, in 1979, and A Small Circle of Friends in 1980, where she played one of three radical college students during the 1960s. She also appeared ( as a guest star ) in the 1979 pilot episode of the long - running CBS series Knots Landing and played Annie Fairgate, the daughter of Don Murray 's character Sid Fairgate and Sid 's first wife Susan Philby. Allen at the 2006 Dallas Comic Con Her career - changing role came with the blockbuster hit Raiders of the Lost Ark ( 1981 ), directed by Steven Spielberg, in which she played the feisty heroine Marion Ravenwood, love interest of Indiana Jones ( Harrison Ford ). Allen won a Saturn Award for Best Actress for her performance. After a few minor films, including leading roles in the dramatic thriller Split Image ( 1982 ), directed by Ted Kotcheff and the Paris - set romantic drama Until September ( 1984 ), directed by Richard Marquand as well as other stage appearances, she co-starred with Jeff Bridges in the science fiction film Starman ( 1984 ). Allen debuted on Broadway in the 1982 production The Monday After The Miracle. In 1983, she played the lead in the off - Broadway play Extremities, a physically demanding role about a woman who turns the tables on a would - be rapist who attacks her. She often took breaks from movie roles to concentrate on stage acting ; Allen appeared as Laura in the Paul Newman - directed film version of the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie, with John Malkovich and Joanne Woodward, in 1987. In 1988, Allen returned to the big screen as Bill Murray 's long - lost love, Claire, in the Christmas comedy Scrooged. In 1990, she portrayed the doomed crew member Christa McAuliffe in the television movie Challenger, based on the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Subsequently, she appeared in Spike Lee 's Malcolm X ( 1992 ), in a small supporting role in The Perfect Storm ( 2000 ) and In the Bedroom ( 2001 ). She made guest appearances on television 's Law & Order ( 1996 ) and Law & Order : Special Victims Unit ( 2001 ). She also starred in the short - lived series The Road Home ( 1994 ) and portrayed Dr. Clare Burton in the video game Ripper ( 1996 ). In 2014 she played the role of Betty Lowe in `` Unfinished Business '' the 13th episode of the 4th season of the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods. Allen reprised her best - known role as Marion Ravenwood for the 2008 sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which she renews her relationship with Indiana Jones and reveals to him that they have a son named Henry Jones III, who named himself Mutt Williams, played by Shia LaBeouf. Allen starred in the American premiere of Jon Fosse 's A Summer Day at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City, which opened in October 2012. Allen has a long - standing relationship with the Berkshire Theater Group. It began in 1981, when she appeared in the play Two for the Seesaw at the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She has also appeared in summer production of the nearby Williamstown Theater Festival. In August 2015, Allen directed Terrence McNally 's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune for the Berkshire Theater Group. In 2016, Allen made her movie directing debut with the short film, A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud., based on the short story by Carson McCullers. It won the Best International Short at the Manchester Film Festival in March 2017. Allen played the lead role in 2017 's A Year by the Sea, a film based on The New York Times bestselling memoir by Joan Anderson. Personal life In 1988, Allen married actor Kale Browne and gave birth to a son, Nicholas, in 1990. The couple divorced in 1998. Following the birth of her son, Allen accepted smaller roles in TV and films to concentrate on raising Nicholas. Nicholas went on to become a personal chef and win a Chopped competition on the Food Network, aired December 22, 2016. She developed an affinity for knitting, and in 2003, started her own textile company, Karen Allen Fiber Arts, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The company sells items Allen knits with a Japanese - made knitting machine. For her work in the textile arts, she was awarded an honorary master 's degree from The Fashion Institute of Technology in 2009. Allen also teaches acting at Bard College at Simon 's Rock, located in Great Barrington. She currently lives in Massachusetts. She also teaches yoga. Filmography Movies Year Title Role 1978 National Lampoon 's Animal House Katy Lovey : A Circle of Children, Part II Elizabeth 1979 Manhattan Television Actor # 2 The Wanderers Nina 1980 Cruising Nancy Gates A Small Circle of Friends Jessica Bloom 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark Marion Ravenwood 1982 Shoot the Moon Sandy Split Image Rebecca / Amy 1984 Starman Jenny Hayden 1985 Until September Mo Alexander Terminus Gus The Glass Menagerie Laura Wingfield Backfire Mara McAndrew Scrooged Claire Phillips Animal Behavior Alex Bristow Challenger Christa McAuliffe Secret Weapon Ruth 1991 Sweet Talker Julie Maguire The Turning Glory Lawson Malcolm X Miss Dunne The Sandlot Scott 's Mom Rapture Georgianne Corcoran King of the Hill Miss Mathey Voyage Catherine `` Kit '' Norvell Ghost in the Machine Terry Munroe Hostile Advances : The Kerry Ellison Story Margaret Law & Order : `` Survivor '' Judith Sandler ' Til There Was You Betty Dawkan All the Winters That Have Been Helen Raven 1998 Falling Sky Resse Nicholson 1999 The Basket Bessie Emery 2000 Wind River Martha The Perfect Storm Melissa Brown In the Bedroom Marla Keyes My Horrible Year ! Belinda Faulkner World Traveler Delores Shaka Zulu ; The Citadel / The Last Great Warrior Katherine Farewell 2003 Briar Patch Butcher Lee Poster Boy Eunice Kray When Will I Be Loved Alexandra Barrie 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Marion Ravenwood 2009 A Dog Year Paula ( voice ) White Irish Drinkers Margaret November Christmas Claire 2012 The Tin Star Eliza Flynn 2015 Bad Hurt Elaine Kendall 2016 Year by the Sea Joan Anderson References Jump up ^ `` Karen Allen Picture, Profile, Gossip, and News ''. CelebrityWonder.com. Archived from the original on 2009 - 11 - 29. Retrieved 2010 - 08 - 02. Jump up ^ http://www.mcculla.com/obituaries/carroll-thompson-allen/ ^ Jump up to : Wloszczyna, Susan ( 2010 - 09 - 15 ). `` Allen and Riegert tend to the ' White Irish Drinkers ' ''. USA Today. Archived from the original on 2012 - 10 - 03. Retrieved 2010 - 09 - 15. Jump up ^ Herman, Arthur. `` Karen Allen Balances Tame, Sexy Roles ''. United Press International. May 22, 1987. Jump up ^ Labrecque, Jeff. `` Karen Allen in ' Indiana Jones ' : The Girl Who Almost Got Away ''. Entertainment Weekly. September 18, 2012. Accessed 2012 - 10 - 22. Jump up ^ `` About - Karen Allen ''. karenallen-actor-director.com. Karen Allen. Retrieved 27 May 2018. Jump up ^ Los Angeles, Times. `` Karen Allen : The Girl Next Door ''. news.google.com. The Telegraph Jul 22, 1981. Retrieved 27 May 2018. Jump up ^ `` About - Karen Allen ''. karenallen-actor-director.com. Karen Allen. Retrieved 27 May 2018. Jump up ^ Eaker, Sherry. The Back Stage Handbook for Performing Artists. New York : Back Stage Books, 1995, p. 78. Jump up ^ List of Best Actress Saturn Award winners Archived 2008 - 12 - 19 at the Wayback Machine. ^ Jump up to : Barton, Chris. `` ' Indiana Jones ' Star Karen Allen Heads for the Stage. '' Los Angeles Times. August 21, 2012. Jump up ^ Hetrick, Adam and Jones, Kenneth. `` Karen Allen and Samantha Soule Share ' A Summer Day ' Off - Broadway Beginning Oct. 10. '' Playbill. October 10, 2012. Jump up ^ `` Unfinished Business ''. 17 January 2014 -- via www.imdb.com. ^ Jump up to : Kozinn, Allan. `` A Lifetime of Regret, Born in a Moment ''. The New York Times. October 21, 2012. Accessed 2012 - 10 - 22. ^ Jump up to : Shaw, Dan ( July 31, 2015 ). `` Karen Allen at Home in the Berkshires ''. The New York Times. Retrieved July 31, 2015. Jump up ^ Shanahan, Mark ( July 28, 2017 ). `` ' Raiders ' actress Karen Allen brings directorial debut to Woods Hole Film Fest ''. Boston Globe. Retrieved October 5, 2017. Jump up ^ Monsky, Ronni ( May 31, 2017 ). `` The Berkshire International Film Festival opens this week : 80 films from 23 countries in 4 days ''. The Berkshire Edge. Retrieved October 5, 2017. Jump up ^ Burr, Ty ( September 21, 2017 ). `` Karen Allen is the one true thing in ' Year by the Sea ' ''. Boston Globe. Retrieved October 5, 2017. Jump up ^ Brownfield, Paul. `` Hello, Karen ? It 's Steven... '' Los Angeles Times. May 18, 2008. Jump up ^ `` Security Check Required ''. www.facebook.com. Jump up ^ `` Annie Leibovitz to Give Keynote Address ''. Fashion Institute of Technology. May 14, 2009. Archived from the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2012. Jump up ^ `` Karen Allen. Expertise : Performing Arts. '' Archived 2010 - 06 - 03 at the Wayback Machine. Media Toolkit. Bard College at Simon 's Rock. 2012. Accessed 2012 - 10 - 22. Cite error : A list - defined reference named `` FilmReference '' is not used in the content ( see the help page ). External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Karen Allen. 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Question: who was the leading lady in raiders of the lost ark
Answer: Karen Jane Allen