Karen Black

Karen Black

Birthday: 1939-07-01

Deathday: 2013-08-08

Place of birth: Park Ridge, Illinois, USA

Also known as: カレン・ブラック, Karen Blanche Ziegler, Карен Блэк, Карен Бланш Циглер

imdb_id: nm0000947

Biography:

Karen Blanche Black (née Ziegler) 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.

Played in movies:

OowieWanna

Score: 9.8

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

Score: 7.8

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

Score: 7.6

Cries of Silence

Score: 7.5

Nashville

Score: 7.3

Letters from the Big Man

Score: 7.2

The Player

Score: 7.2

Five Easy Pieces

Score: 7.1

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Score: 7.1

Easy Rider

Score: 7.1

A Single Woman

Score: 7.0

Double Duty

Score: 7.0

Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage

Score: 7.0

Hostage

Score: 7.0

The Outfit

Score: 6.8

Capricorn One

Score: 6.8

Family Plot

Score: 6.8

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

Score: 6.6

Gypsy 83

Score: 6.6

Burnt Offerings

Score: 6.5

The Day of the Locust

Score: 6.5

Rubin & Ed

Score: 6.4

The Great Gatsby

Score: 6.3

The Little Mermaid

Score: 6.3

Plotting 'Family Plot'

Score: 6.2

Martin's Day

Score: 6.2

Bound and Gagged: A Love Story

Score: 6.2

Trilogy of Terror

Score: 6.2

House of 1000 Corpses

Score: 6.2

Firecracker

Score: 6.1

You're a Big Boy Now

Score: 6.1

Some Guy Who Kills People

Score: 6.0

Ralph S. Mouse

Score: 6.0

Paradise Cove

Score: 6.0

Mr. Horn

Score: 6.0

Crime and Passion

Score: 6.0

Drive, He Said

Score: 6.0

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

Score: 6.0

Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula

Score: 5.9

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

Score: 5.9

Plan 10 from Outer Space

Score: 5.9

Bad Manners

Score: 5.9

My Suicidal Sweetheart

Score: 5.8

The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver

Score: 5.8

Blood Money

Score: 5.8

Red Dirt

Score: 5.8

A Gunfight

Score: 5.8

Dark Blood

Score: 5.8

Cisco Pike

Score: 5.7

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

Score: 5.7

America Brown

Score: 5.7

Airport 1975

Score: 5.7

Watercolors

Score: 5.7

The Independent

Score: 5.6

Invaders from Mars

Score: 5.5

Homer and Eddie

Score: 5.5

Cut and Run

Score: 5.4

It's Alive III: Island of the Alive

Score: 5.4

Rhinoceros

Score: 5.3

Out of the Dark

Score: 5.3

Born to Win

Score: 5.3

The Last Horror Film

Score: 5.3

Club Fed

Score: 5.3

The Squeeze

Score: 5.2

In Praise of Older Women

Score: 5.2

The Pyx

Score: 5.1

Mirror Mirror

Score: 5.1

I Woke Up Early the Day I Died

Score: 5.1

Soulkeeper

Score: 5.0

Whitepaddy

Score: 5.0

Harold Buttleman: Daredevil Stuntman

Score: 5.0

Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts

Score: 5.0

Nothing Special

Score: 5.0

Wanderlust

Score: 5.0

Law and Disorder

Score: 4.9

The Invisible Kid

Score: 4.9

The Double 0 Kid

Score: 4.8

Angel Blue

Score: 4.8

Suffering Man's Charity

Score: 4.8

Auntie Lee's Meat Pies

Score: 4.8

Chanel Solitaire

Score: 4.7

Return of the Roller Blade Seven

Score: 4.7

Hard Contract

Score: 4.7

Quiet Fire

Score: 4.7

Killer Fish

Score: 4.6

Portnoy's Complaint

Score: 4.5

Conceiving Ada

Score: 4.5

Separate Ways

Score: 4.5

Haunting Fear

Score: 4.5

Dinosaur Valley Girls

Score: 4.5

Eternal Evil

Score: 4.4

Twisted Justice

Score: 4.4

Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering

Score: 4.4

She Loves Me Not

Score: 4.3

Teknolust

Score: 4.3

Dogtown

Score: 4.3

Men

Score: 4.3

Savage Dawn

Score: 4.2

Wild in Blue

Score: 4.2

Curse of the Forty-Niner

Score: 4.2

The Prime Time

Score: 4.2

The Grass Is Singing

Score: 4.2

Children of the Night

Score: 4.2

Night Angel

Score: 4.2

Zapped Again!

Score: 4.1

The Last Word

Score: 4.0

Crimetime

Score: 4.0

Little Laura and Big John

Score: 4.0

Read You Like a Book

Score: 3.9

The Children

Score: 3.8

Caged Fear

Score: 3.8

Final Judgement

Score: 3.7

Legend of The Roller Blade Seven

Score: 3.7

One Long Night

Score: 3.7

Evil Spirits

Score: 3.6

Repo Chick

Score: 3.6

Stir

Score: 3.5

Charades

Score: 3.5

Mommy's Little Monster

Score: 3.5

Ooga Booga

Score: 3.4

Invisible Dad

Score: 3.4

Dixie Lanes

Score: 3.4

Judgement

Score: 3.2

Mascara

Score: 3.2

Oliver Twisted

Score: 3.0

Miss Right

Score: 3.0

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

Score: 3.0

The Roller Blade Seven

Score: 2.8

Stuck!

Score: 2.8

Overexposed

Score: 2.8

The Donor

Score: 2.7

Hollywood Dreams

Score: 2.6

The Underground Comedy Movie

Score: 2.5

Dr. Rage

Score: 2.2

A Light in the Darkness

Score: 2.0

Tuesday Never Comes

Score: 2.0

Starstruck

Score: 2.0

Paris

Score: 2.0

Power

Score: 2.0

Contamination

Score: 2.0

Light Speed

Score: 2.0

Maria My Love

Score: 2.0

Irene in Time

Score: 1.2

Dead Girls Don't Tango

Score: 1.0

Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop

Score: 1.0

New York Crossing

Score: 1.0

Karen Black: Actress at Work

Score: 0.0

Every Minute Is Goodbye

Score: 0.0

Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild

Score: 0.0

Altman on His Own Terms

Score: 0.0

WAMEGO: Making Movies Anywhere

Score: 0.0

Fertile La Toyah Video Magazine #2: The Kinky Issue!

Score: 0.0

The Trust

Score: 0.0

The Wacky Adventures of Dr. Boris and Nurse Shirley

Score: 0.0

Because He's My Friend

Score: 0.0

Henry Jaglom Finds 'A Safe Place'

Score: 0.0

Fatal Encounter

Score: 0.0

Too Bad About Jack

Score: 0.0

Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 1

Score: 0.0

Flight of the Spruce Goose

Score: 0.0

BBStory: An American Film Renaissance

Score: 0.0

On the tracks of a filmmaker

Score: 0.0

Bottomless Pit

Score: 0.0

Fallen Arches

Score: 0.0

Hawk Warrior of the Wheelzone

Score: 0.0

Wamego: Ultimatum

Score: 0.0

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

Score: 0.0

Where the Ladies Go

Score: 0.0

The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black: Teather Penumbra

Score: 0.0

Bury the Evidence

Score: 0.0

Malaika

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

E! True Hollywood Story

Score: 8.1

Faerie Tale Theatre

Score: 8.1

Faerie Tale Theatre

Score: 8.1

Russians in the City of Angels

Score: 8.0

Tales of the City

Score: 8.0

The Carol Burnett Show

Score: 7.7

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Score: 7.6

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Judd for the Defense

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

Miami Vice

Score: 7.5

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

Score: 7.4

Run for Your Life

Score: 7.2

Ghost Story

Score: 7.1

Moon Over Miami

Score: 7.0

Saturday Night Live

Score: 7.0

Adam-12

Score: 6.9

Police Story

Score: 6.9

The Invaders

Score: 6.8

The Name of the Game

Score: 6.8

Mannix

Score: 6.7

The Hitchhiker

Score: 6.2

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

The Hunger

Score: 6.0

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

E/R

Score: 5.2

Science Fiction Film Awards

Score: 0.0