Karen Black
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1939-07-01
- Fallecimiento:
- 2013-08-08
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
Biografía
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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Filmografía
Airports
Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts
Bottomless Pit
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Return to the 5 & Dime: An Interview with Ed Graczyk
Electric Boogaloo, la loca historia de Cannon Films
Wild in Blue
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
She Loves Me Not
Ooga Booga
Dark Blood
Maria My Love
OowieWanna
Mommy's Little Monster
Hawk Warrior of the Wheelzone
Letters from the Big Man
Some Guy Who Kills People
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
Henry Jaglom Finds 'A Safe Place'
Nothing Special
Double Duty
Stuck!
Repo Chick
Irene in Time
Meet the Eye
Wamego: Ultimatum
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
First Time Long Time
A Single Woman
The Blue Tooth Virgin
Watercolors
Contamination
Hollywood Dreams
One Long Night
Suffering Man's Charity
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Read You Like a Book
Wanderlust
Whitepaddy
America Brown
Firecracker
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
Crazy for Love
Dr. Rage
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
Birth of Industry
WAMEGO: Making Movies Anywhere
Paris
Harold Buttleman: Daredevil Stuntman
La casa de los 1000 cadáveres
La generación que cambió Hollywood
Русские в городе Ангелов
La maldición del cuarenta y nueve
A Light in the Darkness
Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 1
Teknolust
Gypsy 83
El guardián de las almas (Soulkeeper: El alma del Diablo)
Ley y orden: Acción criminal
The Donor
Plotting 'Family Plot'
The Independent
Red Dirt
Oscura traición
Oliver Twisted
Altman on His Own Terms
Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
The Underground Comedy Movie
Mascara
Conceiving Ada
Paradise Cove
Karen Black: Actress at Work
Criminales
Bury the Evidence
Angel Blue
Me levanté temprano el día de mi muerte
Pasados de vueltas
Invisible Dad
Malaika
Light Speed
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Amores y sabores
The Hunger. El lado salvaje del deseo
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Stir
Ciudad de perros
Modern Rhapsody
Un angelo a New York
Los chicos del maíz IV: La reunión
Profiler
E! True Hollywood Story
La hora del crimen
Cries of Silence
Every Minute Is Goodbye
The Wacky Adventures of Dr. Boris and Nurse Shirley
Plan 10 from Outer Space
Dinosaur Valley Girls
Starstruck
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black: Teather Penumbra
Cinco en familia
Too Bad About Jack
Fertile La Toyah Video Magazine #2: The Kinky Issue!
Bound and Gagged: A Love Story
Historias de San Francisco
Moon Over Miami
Legend of The Roller Blade Seven
La institución
Return of the Roller Blade Seven
Auntie Lee's Meat Pies
Agente secreto juvenil
Judgement
Final Judgement
Tuesday Never Comes
Rubin y Ed
El juego de Hollywood
Dead Girls Don't Tango
Arma silenciosa
Evil Spirits
Hijos de la noche
Rollerblade
Caged Fear
El precio del dinero
Ralph S. Mouse
Mirror Mirror
Club Fed
Haunting Fear
La amante del diablo
The Children
Destape en la universidad
Justicia implacable
Overexposed
Fatal Encounter
Homer y Eddie
El asesino de la máscara
El precio del pasado
El invisible Kid
Hemingway, fiesta y muerte
On the tracks of a filmmaker
El rehén
La isla de los vivos
La Sirenita (Cuentos de las estrellas)
Worlds Beyond
Invasores de Marte
Flight of the Spruce Goose
Amanecer salvaje
Infierno en el Amazonas
El día de Martin
Eternal Evil
Malos modales
Se ha escrito un crimen
Corrupción en Miami
E/R
El Autoestopista
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Vuelve a la tienda de baratijas, Jimmy Dean
Cuentos de las estrellas
Fanático
American Playhouse
La mujer perfecta
Coco Chanel
The Grass Is Singing
Separate Ways
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
Where the Ladies Go
Power
Voracidad
Solo contra la ciudad
Mr. Horn
El regreso de Chris Gretchco
Mujeres de treinta años
Because He's My Friend
Capricornio Uno
The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver
Pesadilla diabólica
La trama
El último recurso
Saturday Night Live
Nashville
Como plaga de langosta
Trilogía del terror (Los enigmas de Karen)
People's Choice Awards
Aeropuerto 75
Law and Disorder
El Gran Gatsby
Rhinoceros
La organización criminal
El rastro
Laura y John
Police Story
Ghost Story
Portnoy's Complaint
Cisco Pike
Nacido para ganar
El gran duelo
Aquellos años
Mi vida es mi vida
Easy Rider (Buscando mi destino)
Antes amar... después matar
Área 12
The Name of the Game
Mannix
The Carol Burnett Show
Judd, for the Defense
The Second Hundred Years
Los invasores
Ya eres un gran chico
The F.B.I.
The Big Valley
Run for Your Life
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Prime Time
George Sluizer - Filmen over grenzen
Vacationland
Science Fiction Film Awards