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She also starred in the short-lived series The Road Home (1994), and portrayed the character of Dr.

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In 1990, she also portrayed crew member Christa McAuliffe in the controversial television movie Challenger, based on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.ДЄllen subsequently appeared in Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992), The Perfect Storm (2000), and In the Bedroom (2001), and made guest appearances on television's Law & Order (1996) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2001). She often took breaks from movie roles to concentrate on stage acting.ДЎ988 saw Allen return as Bill Murray's long-lost love Claire Philips in the Christmas comedy Scrooged.

After a few small films including Until September (1984), directed by Richard Marquand, and other stage appearances, she made the successful science fiction film Starman (1984). Karen Allen filming her first scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark'ДЄllen also debuted on Broadway in 1982's The Monday After The Miracle.

Allen won a Saturn Award for Best Actress for her role in the film. Her next big role came with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), in which she played the feisty heroine Marion Ravenwood. The United Artists-release of that film received only limited theatrical exposure, ultimately grossing under $1 million. Her next two appearances were in The Wanderers in 1979 and A Small Circle of Friends in 1980, where she played one of three radical college students during the 1960s. In 1978, Allen made her major film debut in National Lampoon's Animal House and Hollywood took notice. In 1974, Allen joined a theater group and three years later moved back to New York and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She later attended the University of Maryland, College Park and spent time traveling through South and Central America.

After graduating from DuVal Senior High School, in Lanham, MD at 17, she moved to New York to study art and design at Fashion Institute of Technology. Allen spent her first 10 years traveling around the country with her parents and two sisters. Allen was born in Carrollton, in rural central Illinois, to Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent, and Patricia A.