Karen Black actress
- All known tv series 26
- Total known movies 165
Karen Blanche Black (née Ziegler; July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013) was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She rose to prominence for her work in various studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portraying eccentric and offbeat characters, and established herself as a figure of New Hollywood. Her career spanned over 50 years and includes nearly 200 credits in both independent and mainstream films. Black received numerous accolades throughout her career, including two Golden Globe Awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.A native of suburban Chicago, Black studied theater at Northwestern University before dropping out and relocating to New York City. She performed on Broadway in 1965 before making her major film debut in Francis Ford Coppolas Youre a Big Boy Now (1966). Black relocated to California and was cast as an acid-tripping prostitute in Dennis Hoppers road film Easy Rider (1969). That led to a lead in the drama Five Easy Pieces (1970), in which she played a hopeless beautician, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Black made her first major commercial picture with the disaster film Airport 1975 (1974), and her subsequent appearance as Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby (1974) won her a second Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.Black starred as a glamorous country singer in Robert Altmans ensemble musical drama Nashville (1975), also writing and performing two songs for the soundtrack, which won a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack. Her portrayal of an aspiring actress in John Schlesingers drama The Day of the Locust (also 1975) earned her a third Golden Globe nomination, this time for Best Actress. She subsequently took on four roles in Dan Curtis anthology horror film Trilogy of Terror (1975), followed by Curtiss supernatural horror feature, Burnt Offerings (1976). The same year, she starred as a con artist in Alfred Hitchcocks final film, Family Plot.In 1982, Black starred as a trans woman in the Robert Altman-directed Broadway debut of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, a role she also reprised in Altmans subsequent film adaptation. She next starred in the comedy Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983), followed by Tobe Hoopers remake of Invaders from Mars (1986). For much of the late 1980s and 1990s, Black starred in a variety of arthouse, independent, and horror films, as well as writing her own screenplays. She had a leading role as a villainous mother in Rob Zombies House of 1000 Corpses (2003), which cemented her status as a cult horror icon. She continued to star in low-profile films throughout the early 2000s, as well as working as a playwright before her death from ampullary cancer in 2013.Description above from the Wikipedia article Karen Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jessica Martin
Movie 1998
Laura
Movie 1973
Ro-Kell
Movie 1995
Mom
Movie 1988
Bambi LeBleau
Movie 2001
Nehor
Movie 1995
Rula
Movie 1992
Auntie Lee
Movie 1992
Dr. Julia Harcourt
Movie 1990
Karen Thompson
Movie 1991
Courtney Whitmer
Movie 1998
Martha la Magnifica
Movie 2001
Julie / Millicent Larimore / Therese Larimore / Amelia
Movie 1975
Mrs. Tender
Movie 1996
Sandra / Eleanor
Movie 2005
Self
Movie 2003
Joanne
Movie 1982
Movie 2009
The Mother
Movie 1998
Herself
Movie 2006
Elizabeth Lucy
Movie 1973
Rachel
Movie 1986
Lady Byron / Mother Coer
Movie 1999
Maria
Movie 2012
Mrs. Melnick
Movie 2012
Marianne Brown
Movie 2005
Self
Movie 2009
Sheila Shivvers
Movie 2009
Rose Van Horn
Movie 1996
Carla
Movie 1993
Mary Turner
Movie 1981
Susan Winters
Movie 1976
Zee
Movie 1983
High Priestess
Movie 1998
Self
Movie 1998
Mrs. Allardyce
Movie 2013
Jude
Movie 1998
Mrs. Trowbridge
Movie 1990
Barrett
Movie 1991
Kim Martino
Movie 1991
Sally Rich
Movie 1990
May
Movie 2010
Tiffany Powers
Movie 1992
Laura Lawrence
Movie 1987
Betty
Movie 1960
Movie 1994
Molly
Movie 2005
Blanche
Movie 1991
Miriam Oliver / Sandy
Movie 1977
Agrippina
Movie 2005
Luna
Movie 2007
Homeroom Teacher
Movie 1990
Self (archive footage)
Movie 2015
Self
Movie 2009
Mavis
Movie 2008
Justine
Movie 2014
Mrs. Granger
Movie 1990
Mother
Movie 1999
Tarot
Movie 2012
Karen Black
Movie 2015
Social Worker
Movie 1998
Karen Black
Movie 1988
Self
Movie 2010
Rose Walsh
Movie 1996
Emilienne d'Alençon
Movie 1981
Self
Movie 2001
Sybil Lullmer
Movie 1990
Ernestina Crawford
Movie 1979
Mrs. Sorrel
Movie 1992
Dr. Gabrielle Kessler
Movie 1997
Gloria
Movie 1986
Self
Movie 1999
Aunt De La Chasse
Movie 2009
Tarot
Movie 1993
Dirty Dick
Movie 2002
("Los Vampirios Moronious" short)
Movie 2002
Ma
Movie 1999
Movie 1994
Mrs. Mary Happ
Movie 2000
Storyteller
Movie 2008
Insp. Wilson
Movie 1992
Joan Caldwell
Movie 1990
Movie 2018
Self
Movie 2010
Mrs. Springle
Movie 2001
Kate
Movie 2006
Anne
Movie 1978
Evelyn
Movie 1995
Maria Vandermeer
Movie 1993
Movie 1994
Mrs. Martin
Movie 2008
Karen Black (uncredited)
Movie 1982
Self
Movie 2004
Miss Kuchenbacker
Movie 1991
Mrs. Leider
Movie 2006
Self
Movie 1997
Motel Woman
Movie 2012
Tv 1984
Tv 1996
Tv 1967
Tv 1993
Tv 1973
Tv 1984
Tv 1967
Barbara Sanders
Tv 1972
Self - Host
Tv 1975
Self
Tv 1961
Self
Tv 1962
Monica Garrison
Tv 1968
Self - Guest / Various Characters
Tv 1967
Self
Tv 1993
