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Karen Black - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Karen Black is an American actress who gained popularity thanks to her work in films such as Nashville, The Great Gatsby, Easy Rider.
Karen Blanche Black was born on July 1, 1939, in the county town of Park Ridge, Illinois, and was the second daughter of a Jewish family of children's writer Elsie Marie and engineer and businessman Norman Arthur Black. Arthur Charles Ziegler, classical musician and first violin in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was Black's paternal grandfather. The older sister Karen Gale later also became an actress. Karen has German, Czech and Norwegian roots.
After completing her secondary education, Black became a student at Northwestern University in Evanston, and a couple of years later moved to New York, where she studied with Lee Strasberg at the Film and Theater Studios. In 1965, Karen made her Broadway debut in Playroom, which received rave reviews from critics.
Black made her big screen debut in 1966, in Francis Ford Coppola's melodrama You're a Big Boy Now. She was followed by work in films such as Rigid Frames, Five Easy Pieces, He Said Let's Go, Law and Disorder, Family Conspiracy, Praise of Older Women, The Last Word, Lonely Coco Chanel, Martin Day, Aliens from Mars, The Invisible Guy, Homer and Eddie, Night Angel, Prison Resort, Children of the Night, Justice, Murder Hour, Nymphomania, Underground Comedy, Red Mud, Gypsy 83, Guardian of Souls, Technosex, House of 1000 Corpses, Paris, Clapperboard, Bloody Reckoning, Watercolors, Bad Blood. The last film with Karen Black came out in 2013, Uga Buga is a horror film by Charles Band about transmigration of souls.
Karen wrote songs titled Memphis and Rolling Stone, which she sang as country singer Connie White in the film Nashville. This earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Album, Original Score, Written for a Motion Picture or Television Series.
Black married four times, her first husband was Charles Black, the second - the actor Robert Burton. The third husband of Karen was the actor and screenwriter L. M. Keith Carson, in this marriage she had a son, Hunter, who followed in the footsteps of his parents. In 1987, Black married for the last time, to producer and director Stephen Eckelberry, the couple have a common daughter Celine, and they were also active members of the Church of Scientology.
In 2010, Karen was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and despite three operations, Black died on August 8, 2013.
During her career, the actress has worked in more than two hundred films, and you can watch films with the participation of Karen Black on our website.
Karen Black has gray eyes, naturally blond hair, fair skin and medium lips. The shape of the face is oval, the forehead is medium, curly hair, thick. Karen Black changed her hair color, giving preference to dark. The actress has a large humped nose and an oval chin. The growth of the actress is 170 cm, no tattoos.
