
Karen Allen is a film actor, stage actor, television actor (United States).
Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American film, television and stage actress. She made her film debut in the comedy film Animal House (1978), which was soon followed by a small role in Woody Allen's romantic comedy-drama Manhattan (1979) and a co-lead role in Philip Kaufman's coming-of-age film The Wanderers (1979), before co-starring opposite Al Pacino in William Friedkin's crime thriller Cruising (1980). Allen's critical and commercial breakthrough came when she portrayed Marion Ravenwood opposite Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Actress. She later co-starred in Shoot the Moon (1982), Starman (1984), for which she was again nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actress, and Scrooged (1988).
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| Born | 5 October 1951 |
| Profession | film actor, stage actor, television actor |
| Nationality | United States |
| Employer | Bard College |
| Educated at | Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Fashion Institute of Technology, DuVal High School, University of Maryland, George Washington University |
| Spouse | Kale Browne |
| Awards | Theatre World Award |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Scorpio |
| Nakshatra | Jyeshtha (Pada 1) |
| Sun Sign | Virgo |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Scorpio |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 666 Hollywood personalities with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 56 of them (8%) have the Moon in Scorpio, like Karen Allen, and 25 (4%) share the Jyeshtha Nakshatra — the #16 most common Moon Nakshatra among Hollywood personalities, where Dhanishta leads with 31 (5%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Karen Allen was born on 5 October 1951. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Karen Allen's Moon sign (Rashi) is Scorpio and the Nakshatra is Jyeshtha, pada 1, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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