Trivia

She designs clothes for her own clothing label, Image.

Overcame temporary blindness caused by keratoconjunctivitis in 1978. She later won major theater awards for playing a blind woman in "Monday Before the Miracle" and "The Miracle Worker.".

Voted one of the most beautiful women in the world by the readers of Harper's Bazaar magazine in 1983.

An accomplished hand-knitting fanatic, Allen runs her own knitwear design studio, Karen Allen Fiber Arts. (November 2004)

Has a major in design from New York's Fashion Institute of Technology.

Considered for the role of Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), later cast in the George Lucas-produced Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).

In 1995 she founded Berkshire Mountain Yoga in Massachusetts.

Member of a notable group of Lee Strasberg alumni: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, and Matt Zemlin, among others.

Parents: Carroll Thompson Allen (FBI agent) and Patricia A. Howell (schoolteacher).

She inaugurated her own knitwear design studio in 2004 in Massachusetts: Karen Allen Fiber Arts.

She teaches yoga.

She has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Manhattan (1979), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Malcolm X (1992).

She is of Irish, Scottish, English, and Welsh descent.

Son, Nicholas Browne, was born on September 14, 1990.

Studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.

She was considered for the role of Dorothy Valance in Blue Velvet (1986).

Has two sisters.

Graduated from DuVal High School in Glenndale, Maryland, in 1969.

Former student of New York acting teacher David Gideon, when she studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute.

Lived with musician Stephen Bishop.

Studied in the Washington Theater Laboratory.

She auditioned for the role of Elvira Hancock in Scarface (1983).

Is a good harmonica player. She was shown playing the harmonica in the 1984 movie "Until September".

Was famously tied up and had her mouth gagged in both the "Indiana Jones" movies she appeared in: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).

Born at 10:11 AM.