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Acting

Karen Black

Career: Active from 1960 to 2018, with up to 7 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 77
top three billing

Average score: 50/100

Highest rated: Nashville
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 103 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Karen Black Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Wholesome
2.2, average 3.4
Catharsis
4.1, average 5.1
Wonder
2.5, average 3.4
Family Dynamics
4.1, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 16
Character Study 10
Social Commentary 8
Psychological Thriller 8
Coming-of-Age 7
Supernatural Horror 5
Psychological Tension 5
Slow Burn 5
Melancholy 4
Moral Dilemma 4
Psychological Drama 4
Gritty Realism 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

183

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

as Louise

2010s

14 titles · average score 56

Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts

as (archive footage)

Wild in Blue

40

as Justine

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

84

as Linda Magnusson (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ooga Booga

32

as Mrs. Allardyce

She Loves Me Not

43

as Karla

as Maria

Mommy's Little Monster

as Mrs. Melnick

Dark Blood

70

as Motel Woman

OowieWanna

as The Donna

Some Guy Who Kills People

69

as Ruth Boyd

Letters from the Big Man

61

as Sean's Colleague

Nothing Special

48

as May

2000s

38 titles · average score 48

First Time Long Time

as Dr. Shneidel

Stuck!

31

as The Neighbor Lady

Whitepaddy

as Mrs. Leider

Firecracker

55

as Sandra / Eleanor

House of 1000 Corpses

44

as Mother Firefly

Curse of the Forty-Niner

33

as Aunt Nelly

Teknolust

45

as Dirty Dick

A Light in the Darkness

as Mrs. Melnick

Gypsy 83

55

as Bambi LeBleau

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

68

TV show · as Vera Morgan

Red Dirt

60

as Aunt Summer

Fallen Arches

as Lucy Romano

1990s

56 titles · average score 47

Invisible Dad

29

as Courtney Whitmer

as High Priestess

Men

48

as Alex

Plan 10 from Outer Space

61

as Nehor

Auntie Lee's Meat Pies

46

as Auntie Lee

Judgement

as Tiffany Powers

Rubin & Ed

73

as Rula

Tuesday Never Comes

as Michelle

Evil Spirits

33

as Ella Purdy

Children of the Night

41

as Karen Thompson

The Roller Blade Seven

27

as Tarot

Mirror Mirror

46

as Susan Gordon

1980s

32 titles · average score 56

Out of the Dark

53

as Ruth Wilson

It's Alive III: Island of the Alive

44

as Ellen Jarvis

Hostage

as Laura Lawrence

Invaders from Mars

47

as Linda Magnusson

Eternal Evil

39

as Janus

Savage Dawn

39

as Rachel

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

57

as Zee

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

79

as Joanne

Miss Right

as Amy

The Grass Is Singing

49

as Mary Turner

Separate Ways

34

as Valentine Colby

Power

TV show · as Rose Vanda-Buchanan

1970s

29 titles · average score 58

Killer Fish

36

as Kate

Mr. Horn

67

TV show · as Ernestina Crawford

Family Plot

76

as Fran

Burnt Offerings

54

as Marian Rolf

Nashville

86

as Connie White

The Day of the Locust

57

as Faye Greener

Trilogy of Terror

73

as Julie / Millicent Larimore / Therese Larimore / Amelia

Airport 1975

46

as Nancy Pryor

The Great Gatsby

50

as Myrtle Wilson

The Outfit

78

as Bett Harrow

Cisco Pike

80

as Sue

Five Easy Pieces

81

as Rayette Dipesto

1960s

13 titles · average score 67

Easy Rider

79

as Karen

Adam-12

74

TV show · as Susan Decker

The Name of the Game

73

TV show · as Monica Garrison

Mannix

71

TV show

The Invaders

49

TV show · as Claudia Stone

Judd, for the Defense

76

TV show

The Second Hundred Years

70

TV show · as Marcia

You're a Big Boy Now

56

as Amy Partlett

The Big Valley

69

TV show · as Carla

The F.B.I.

65

TV show · as Lorraine Chapman

Run for Your Life

73

TV show · as Jennifer Palmer

The Prime Time

as Betty