Karen Allen Net Worth

Karen Allen is an American actress and director who has a net worth of $2 million. Allen is best known for starring as Marion Ravenwood in the 1981 Indiana Jones film “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and she reprised the role in 2008’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Karen has more than 60 acting credits to her name, including the films “National Lampoon’s Animal House” (1978), “Starman” (1984), “The Glass Menagerie” (1987), “Scrooged” (1988), “Malcolm X” (1992), “The Perfect Storm” (2000), and “Year by the Sea” (2016) and the television series “The Road Home” (1994) and “50 States of Fright” (2020). Allen directed the 2017 short film “A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.,” and she has directed stage productions of Joan Ackermann’s “The Batting Cage” (2008), Michael Weller’s “Moonchildren” (2009; 2011), William Mastrisimone’s “Extremities” (2013), Lucy Thurber’s “Asheville” (2013), Terence McNally’s “Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune” (2015), and John Patrick Shanley’s “Outside Mullingar” (2019). She has also performed on Broadway, winning a Theatre World Award for a 1982 production of “Monday After the Miracle.”

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Career

Allen made both her big screen and small screen debuts in 1978, appearing in the film “National Lampoon’s Animal House” and the TV movie “Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II.” She then had roles in the “Knots Landing” pilot (1979) and the films “Manhattan” (1979), “The Wanderers” (1979), “Cruising” (1980), and “A Small Circle of Friends” (1980). In 1981, she played Marion Ravenwood in the Steven Spielberg-directed film “Raiders of the Lost Ark” alongside Harrison Ford. The film grossed $389.9 million against a $20 million budget, and Karen reprised her role in the fourth film in the franchise, 2008’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” which brought in $790.7 million at the box office. Allen followed her breakout role with the films “Shoot the Moon” (1982), “Split Image” (1982), “Starman” (1984), “Until September” (1985), “Terminus” (1986), “Backfire” (1988), and “Animal Behavior” (1989), and she played Laura Wingfield in the 1987 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” and Claire Phillips in the 1988 Bill Murray comedy “Scrooged.” In 1990, she portrayed astronaut Christa McAuliffe in the TV movie “Challenger,” then she appeared in the films “Sweet Talker” (1991), “The Turning” (1992), “Malcolm X” (1992), “The Sandlot” (1993), “King of the Hill” (1993), “Ghost in the Machine” (1993), and “Falling Sky” (1998) and the TV movies “Secret Weapon” (1990), “Rapture” (1993), and “Voyage” (1993).

Personal Life

Karen married actor Kale Browne on May 1, 1988, and they welcomed son Nicholas on September 14, 1990. Allen and Browne divorced in June 1998. Nicholas grew up to be a chef and won the Food Network’s “Chopped” competition in 2016.

Inspirational Quotes by Karen Allen

As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

Karen Allen

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

Karen Allen

My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.

Karen Allen

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

Karen Allen

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

Karen Allen