FrameThrower · Actors · Karen Allen
Karen Allen
7 films · 457 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1979–2001
Born 5 October 1951 · Carrollton, Illinois, USA
Karen Jane Allen is an American actress best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Allen has also had roles in films including National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Wanderers (1979), Cruising (1980), Starman (1984), Scrooged (1988), The Sandlot (1993), and Poster Boy (2004).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 457 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1979–2001
- Theatre World Award1983
How their films are shot
Measured across 457 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Karen takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Karen takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 457 frames from Karen Allen's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.