Karen Black

Karen Black

actress, writer, composer

Karen Black was born on Jul 01, 1939 in USA. Karen Black's big-screen debut came with The Second Hundred Years - Season 1 directed by Richard Kinon in 1967. Karen Black is known for Moon Over Miami directed by Allan Arkush, Billy Campbell stars as Walter Tatum and Ally Walker as Gwen Cross. Karen Black has got 13 awards and 9 nominations so far. The most recent award Karen Black achieved is Fantasporto. The upcoming new movie Karen Black plays is Dark Blood which will be released on Apr 26, 2014.

Karen entered Northwestern University at 19 and left two years later. She studied under Lee Strasberg in New York and worked in a number of off-Broadway roles. She made a critically acclaimed debut on Broadway in 1965 in "The Playroom". Her first big film role was in Big Boy (1966), directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Shortly after wards, she appeared as Marcia in the TV series The Second Hundred Years (1967).The film that made her a star was Easy Rider (1969), where she worked with Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and a supporting actor named Jack Nicholson. She appeared with Nicholson again the next year when they starred in Cinq pièces faciles (1970), which garnered an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe for Karen. Her roles mainly consisted of waitresses, hookers and women on the edge. Some of her later films were disappointments at the box office, but she did receive another Golden Globe for Gatsby le magnifique (1974). One role for which she is well remembered is that of the jewel thief in Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Complot de famille (1976). Another is as the woman terrorized in her apartment by a murderous Zuni doll come to life in the well received TV movie Trilogy of Terror (1975). After a number of forgettable movies, she again won rave reviews for her role in Reviens Jimmy Dean, reviens (1982). Since then, her film career has been busy, but the quality of the films has been uneven.

  • Birthday

    Jul 01, 1939
  • Place of Birth

    Park Ridge, Illinois, USA

Known For

Awards

13 wins & 9 nominations

Fantasporto
2005
Best Actress
Winner - International Fantasy Film Award
Firecracker (2005)
New York VisionFest
2005
Acting - Female
Winner - Outstanding Achievement Award
Firecracker (2005)
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