Karen Black
Birthday: 1939-07-01
Deathday: 2013-06-12
Birthplace: Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
Gender: Female
Drafted: 0
Drafted By: Unowned
Owned By: Unowned
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 0
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0
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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Career Statisics
| Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
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| 1971 | 32 | Five Easy Pieces (1970) | Supporting Actress | Nom | 0 | |
| Career | 0 |
Transaction History
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Credits
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2018-10-01 | Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts | |
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2015-10-21 | Bottomless Pit | Karen Black |
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2014-05-05 | Wild in Blue | Justine |
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2013-06-09 | She Loves Me Not | Karla |
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2013-03-12 | Ooga Booga | Mrs. Allardyce |
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2012-09-27 | Dark Blood | Motel Woman |
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2012-04-17 | Maria My Love | Maria |
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2012-02-18 | OowieWanna | The Donna |
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2012-01-01 | Mommy's Little Monster | Mrs. Melnick |
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2012-01-01 | Hawk Warrior of the Wheelzone | Tarot |
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2011-11-11 | Letters from the Big Man | Sean's Colleague |
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2011-04-14 | Some Guy Who Kills People | Ruth Boyd |
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2010-01-01 | Nothing Special | May |
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2009-12-08 | Double Duty | Annabelle |
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2009-11-15 | Stuck! | |
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2009-09-09 | Repo Chick | Aunt De La Chasse |
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2009-06-19 | Irene in Time | Sheila Shivvers |
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2008-09-21 | A Single Woman | Storyteller |
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2008-06-07 | Watercolors | Mrs. Martin |
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2008-05-01 | Contamination | Mavis |
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2007-05-25 | Hollywood Dreams | Luna |
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2007-03-25 | One Long Night | Barbara |
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2007-03-09 | Ghost Writer | Renee |
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2006-10-01 | Read You Like a Book | Kate |
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2006-01-01 | Whitepaddy | Mrs. Leider |
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2005-10-28 | America Brown | Marianne Brown |
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2005-10-11 | Firecracker | Sandra / Eleanor |
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2005-06-15 | Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula | Agrippina |
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2005-01-01 | Dr. Rage | Molly |
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2003-06-06 | Paris | Chantelle |
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2003-05-08 | Harold Buttleman: Daredevil Stuntman | Mrs. Buttleman |
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2003-04-11 | House of 1000 Corpses | Mother Firefly |
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2002-10-01 | Curse of the Forty-Niner | Aunt Nelly |
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2002-02-19 | Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 1 | ("Los Vampirios Moronious" short) |
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2002-01-10 | Teknolust | Dirty Dick |
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2002-01-01 | A Light in the Darkness | Mrs. Melnick |
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2001-10-18 | Gypsy 83 | Bambi LeBleau |
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2001-04-13 | The Donor | Mrs. Springle |
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2001-01-01 | Soulkeeper | Martha la Magnifica |
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2000-11-10 | The Independent | Karen Black |
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2000-03-17 | Red Dirt | Aunt Summer |
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2000-01-15 | Fallen Arches | Lucy Romano |
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2000-01-01 | Oliver Twisted | Mrs. Mary Happ |
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1999-05-14 | The Underground Comedy Movie | Mother |
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1999-05-07 | Mascara | Aunt Eloise |
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1999-02-19 | Conceiving Ada | Lady Byron / Mother Coer |
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1999-01-01 | Paradise Cove | Ma |
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1998-12-17 | Charades | Jude |
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1998-12-12 | Bury the Evidence | The Mother |
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1998-11-15 | Angel Blue | Social Worker |
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1998-09-13 | I Woke Up Early the Day I Died | Whip Lady |
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1998-03-24 | Invisible Dad | Courtney Whitmer |
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1998-01-01 | Malaika | Jessica Martin |
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1998-01-01 | Light Speed | High Priestess |
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1997-10-23 | Men | Alex |
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1997-07-01 | Stir | Dr. Gabrielle Kessler |
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1996-12-12 | New York Crossing | Mrs. Tender |
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1996-10-08 | Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering | June Rhodes |
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1996-10-01 | Dogtown | Rose Van Horn |
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1996-08-01 | Crimetime | Millicent |
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1996-05-01 | Cries of Silence | Rose Walsh |
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1995-03-01 | The Wacky Adventures of Dr. Boris and Nurse Shirley | Evelyn |
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1995-02-23 | Plan 10 from Outer Space | Nehor |
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1995-01-01 | Dinosaur Valley Girls | Ro-Kell |
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1995-01-01 | Starstruck | Bertha |
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1994-10-10 | The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black: Teather Penumbra | |
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1994-01-01 | Too Bad About Jack | |
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1994-01-01 | Fertile La Toyah Video Magazine #2: The Kinky Issue! | |
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1993-10-22 | Bound and Gagged: A Love Story | Carla |
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1993-06-25 | Legend of The Roller Blade Seven | Tarot |
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1993-04-23 | The Trust | Maria Vandermeer |
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1993-04-15 | Return of the Roller Blade Seven | Tarot |
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1992-10-21 | Auntie Lee's Meat Pies | Auntie Lee |
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1992-09-07 | The Double 0 Kid | Mrs. Elliot |
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1992-08-05 | Judgement | Tiffany Powers |
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1992-06-01 | Final Judgement | Mrs. Sorrel |
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1992-05-17 | Tuesday Never Comes | Michelle |
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1992-05-15 | Rubin & Ed | Rula |
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1992-04-03 | The Player | Karen Black |
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1992-03-06 | Dead Girls Don't Tango | Insp. Wilson |
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1991-10-31 | Quiet Fire | Kim Martino |
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1991-09-06 | Children of the Night | Karen Thompson |
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1991-09-06 | The Roller Blade Seven | Tarot |
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1991-05-17 | Caged Fear | Blanche |
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1991-04-12 | The Killers Edge | Barrett |
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1991-02-16 | Ralph S. Mouse | Miss Kuchenbacker |
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1990-10-19 | Mirror Mirror | Susan Gordon |
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1990-08-09 | Club Fed | Sally Rich |
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1990-08-01 | Haunting Fear | Dr. Julia Harcourt |
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1990-06-02 | Night Angel | Rita |
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1990-05-18 | The Children | Sybil Lullmer |
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1990-04-14 | Zapped Again! | Homeroom Teacher |
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1990-03-20 | Twisted Justice | Mrs. Granger |
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1990-01-01 | Evil Spirits | Ella Purdy |
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1990-01-01 | Overexposed | Mrs. Trowbridge |
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1990-01-01 | Fatal Encounter | Joan Caldwell |
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1989-08-17 | Homer and Eddie | Belle |
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1988-06-02 | Out of the Dark | Ruth Wilson |
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1988-05-03 | Dixie Lanes | Zelma Putnam |
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1988-03-30 | The Invisible Kid | Mom |
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1988-01-01 | The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway | Martha Gelhorn |
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1988-01-01 | On the tracks of a filmmaker | Karen Black |
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1987-10-01 | Hostage | Laura Lawrence |
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1987-05-27 | It's Alive III: Island of the Alive | Ellen Jarvis |
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1987-04-06 | The Little Mermaid | Sea Witch |
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1986-06-06 | Invaders from Mars | Linda Magnusson |
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1986-05-22 | Savage Dawn | Rachel |
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1986-01-17 | Flight of the Spruce Goose | Gloria |
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1985-08-08 | Cut and Run | Karin |
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1985-02-22 | Martin's Day | Karen |
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1985-01-04 | Eternal Evil | Janus |
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1984-11-11 | Bad Manners | Gladys Fitzpatrick |
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1983-09-10 | Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? | Zee |
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1982-11-12 | Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | Joanne |
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1982-08-12 | The Last Horror Film | Karen Black (uncredited) |
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1982-01-01 | Miss Right | Amy |
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1981-08-30 | The Grass Is Singing | Mary Turner |
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1981-05-01 | Separate Ways | Valentine Colby |
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1981-01-01 | Chanel Solitaire | Emilienne d'Alençon |
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1980-04-28 | Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop | Investigator Evelyn Carter |
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1980-03-14 | Where the Ladies Go | Helen |
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1980-01-14 | Power | Rose Vanda-Buchanan |
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1979-12-07 | Killer Fish | Kate |
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1979-10-10 | The Last Word | Paula Herbert |
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1979-02-01 | Mr. Horn | Ernestina Crawford |
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1978-10-25 | The Squeeze | Clarisse Saunders |
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1978-09-22 | In Praise of Older Women | Maya |
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1978-06-11 | Because He's My Friend | Anne |
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1977-12-10 | Capricorn One | Judy Drinkwater |
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1977-02-28 | The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver | Miriam Oliver / Sandy |
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1976-10-18 | Burnt Offerings | Marian Rolf |
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1976-04-09 | Family Plot | Fran |
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1976-02-06 | Crime and Passion | Susan Winters |
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1975-06-11 | Nashville | Connie White |
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1975-05-07 | The Day of the Locust | Faye Greener |
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1975-03-04 | Trilogy of Terror | Julie / Millicent Larimore / Therese Larimore / Amelia |
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1974-10-18 | Airport 1975 | Nancy Pryor |
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1974-10-09 | Law and Disorder | Gloria |
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1974-03-27 | The Great Gatsby | Myrtle Wilson |
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1974-01-21 | Rhinoceros | Daisy |
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1973-10-19 | The Outfit | Bett Harrow |
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1973-09-08 | The Pyx | Elizabeth Lucy |
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1973-05-03 | Little Laura and Big John | Laura |
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1972-06-19 | Portnoy's Complaint | Mary Jane Reid a.k.a. Monkey |
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1972-01-14 | Cisco Pike | Sue |
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1971-12-01 | Born to Win | Parm |
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1971-08-25 | A Gunfight | Jenny Simms |
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1971-06-13 | Drive, He Said | Olive |
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1970-09-12 | Five Easy Pieces | Rayette Dipesto |
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1969-06-26 | Easy Rider | Karen |
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1969-04-30 | Hard Contract | Ellen |
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1966-12-09 | You're a Big Boy Now | Amy Partlett |
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1960-04-01 | The Prime Time | Betty |