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Karen Black

Karen Black

Oyuncu · 1939 – 2013 · Park Ridge, Illinois, USA

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 Coppola's You're a Big Boy Now (1966). Black relocated to California and was cast as an acid-tripping prostitute in Dennis Hopper's 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 Altman's 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 Schlesinger's 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 Curtis's supernatural horror feature, Burnt Offerings (1976). The same year, she starred as a con artist in Alfred Hitchcock's 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 Altman's subsequent film adaptation. She next starred in the comedy Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983), followed by Tobe Hooper's 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 Zombie's 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.

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  • Film7.0

    Easy Rider

    Özgürlüğün Bedeli

    1969 · 2.2K votes

  • Film6.2

    House of 1000 Corpses

    Cesetler Evi

    2003 · 1.8K votes

  • Film7.2

    The Player

    Oyuncular

    1992 · 993 votes

  • Film6.3

    The Great Gatsby

    Muhteşem Gatsby

    1974 · 528 votes

  • Film6.8

    Capricorn One

    Hükmedenler

    1977 · 529 votes

  • Film7.3

    Nashville

    1975 · 479 votes

  • Film7.6
  • Film5.8

    Airport 1975

    Havaalanı 80

    1974 · 305 votes

  • Film6.8

    Family Plot

    Aile Komplosu

    1976 · 523 votes

  • Film6.4

    The Day of the Locust

    Çekirgenin Günü

    1975 · 114 votes

  • Film7.1

    Five Easy Pieces

    Beş Kolay Parça

    1970 · 621 votes

  • Film4.5

    Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering

    Mısır Çocukları 4

    1996 · 179 votes

  • Film4.4

    Night Angel

    1990 · 22 votes

  • Film5.6

    Invaders from Mars

    1986 · 294 votes

  • Film6.5

    Burnt Offerings

    Gazap Tohumu

    1976 · 289 votes

  • Film7.2
  • Film5.6

    Out of the Dark

    1988 · 49 votes

  • Film6.7

    The Outfit

    1973 · 105 votes

  • Film6.8

    Who Is Henry Jaglom?

    1997 · 6 votes

  • Film5.3
  • Film5.1

    The Double 0 Kid

    1992 · 32 votes

  • Film5.3

    The Last Horror Film

    1982 · 74 votes

  • Film4.7

    Killer Fish

    1979 · 72 votes

  • Film6.1

    Some Guy Who Kills People

    2011 · 118 votes

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  • Dizi5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • Dizi7.6
  • Dizi6.9

    Saturday Night Live

    1975 · 530 votes

  • Dizi7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

  • Dizi6.9

    Mannix

    1967 · 57 votes

  • Dizi7.1

    Adam-12

    1968 · 48 votes

  • Dizi6.6

    American Playhouse

    1982 · 8 votes

  • Dizi7.5

    Miami Vice

    1984 · 544 votes

  • Dizi7.0

    Party of Five

    1994 · 138 votes

  • Dizi5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • Dizi7.7

    The Carol Burnett Show

    1967 · 74 votes

  • Dizi7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • Dizi7.0

    Profiler

    1996 · 74 votes

  • Dizi6.2

    The Big Valley

    1965 · 59 votes

  • Dizi7.1

    Run for Your Life

    Hayatın İçin Koş

    1965 · 7 votes

  • Dizi6.8

    The Invaders

    1967 · 63 votes

  • Dizi7.2
  • Dizi6.2

    The Hitchhiker

    1983 · 32 votes

  • Dizi9.2

    People's Choice Awards

    1975 · 6 votes

  • Dizi7.0

    Police Story

    1973 · 20 votes

  • Dizi7.7

    Judd, for the Defense

    1967 · 3 votes

  • Dizi8.1

    Faerie Tale Theatre

    1982 · 24 votes

  • Dizi6.1

    The Hunger

    1997 · 46 votes