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).

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (14)

• 2024The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones — Self
• 2023Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford — Self
• 2021Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age — Self - Actress (archive footage)
• Josh Gates Tonight — Self
• 2008Animal House: The Inside Story — Self
• 2008Indiana Jones 4: The Return of a Legend — Self
• 2008Production Diary: Making of 'The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2006Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills — Self
• 2003Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy — self
• 1998The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion — Self - Katy
• 1981Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark — Self (archive footage)
• 1981The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' — Self
• Fridays — Self