Karen Allen Trivia

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She designs clothes for her own clothing label Image. (imdb.com)

Studied in the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. (imdb.com)

Overcame temporary blindness caused by Kerato Conjunctivitis in 1978. She later won major theatre awards for playing a blind woman in "Monday Before the Miracle" and "Miracle Worker, The". (imdb.com)

Has a major in Design by New York's Fashion Institute of Technology. (imdb.com)

In 1995 she founded the Berkshire Mountain Yoga in Massachussets. (imdb.com)

Son, Nicholas, born on September 14th 1990. (imdb.com)

Studied in the Washington Theater Laboratory. (imdb.com)

Has two sisters. (imdb.com)

Voted one of the most beautiful women in the world by the readers of Harpers Bazaar Magazine in 1983. (imdb.com)

She inaugurated her own knitwear design studio in 2004 in Massachussets: Karen Allen - Fiber Arts. (imdb.com)

Graduated in 1969 from the DuVal High School in Glenndale Maryland. (imdb.com)

Graduated from DuVal High School in Glenndale Maryland in 1969. (imdb.com)

Parents: Carroll Thompson Allen (F.B.I. Agent) and Patricia A. Howell (school teacher). (imdb.com)

Considered for the role of Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars (1977), later cast in the George Lucas-produced Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). (imdb.com)

Lived with musician Stephen Bishop. (imdb.com)