Karen Black

Karen Black's biography

Karen Blanche Ziegler is 74 years old actor born at Park Ridge, Illinois, USA. She was born on Saturday 1st of July 1939. She is often nicknamed as Karen Blanche Ziegler, Karen Black, Karen Blanche Black. According to year of birth 1939 she belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 1st of July means Karen is Cancer. Cancer is a watery sign. They are very friendly and show motherly love to everyone. According to ascendant calculator, an important trait of these natives is their sensitive nature.Karen was married 2 times.

She is native english speaker. She is white american. Karen is citizen of United States of America. She is scientology. Karen´s primary profession is to be actor. You can know Karen also as singer, screenwriter, singer-songwriter, composer, television actor, stage actor. Karen is recently known as film actor.

Karen Black's family

Karen Black's ex husbands

L.M. Kit Carson

Karen Black and L.m. Kit Carson have been together since 1975 for 8 years. He is known as screenwriter. Her ex husband was born on Tuesday 12th of August 1941 in Irving. Her ex husband died on Monday 20th of October 2014 in Dallas. L.m. Kit Carson was 75 years old, when this happened.

Stephen Eckelberry

Karen Black and Stephen Eckelberry have been together since 1987 for 26 years. He is known as film director. Karen´s ex husband was born on Friday 8th of December 1961.

Karen has 1 son.

Karen Black's son: Hunter Carson

Karen Black's son's name is Hunter Carson. He is known as actor. Karen´s son was born on Friday 26th of December 1975 in Los Angeles.

Karen Black's schools

We found 2 schools Karen attended. Complete list of schools: Maine East High School, Northwestern University.

Detailed informations about her schools

• Attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, for two years before moving to New York, where she studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio and appeared in a number of Off-Broadway productions.
• Went to Maine Township High School East, Des Plaines, IL, for the 9th grade, the same high school attended by Hillary Clinton and Harrison Ford.
• Attended Lafayette Jefferson High School in Lafayette, Indiana.

Karen Black's career

Karen´s main focus is to be actor and composing. She is famous thanks to Trilogy of Terror, Five Easy Pieces.

Is Karen Black gay ?

Karen is known to be straight.

How did Karen Black die

Karen died on on Thursday 8th of August 2013 when he was 74 years old. Karen Blacks death was caused by cancer. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Karen Black's Awards

• Made her Broadway debut in 1965's "The Playroom", which ran less than a month. She received great reviews, however, and was nominated for a Drama Circle Critics Award for Best Actress.

Karen Black's Rankings

• Is the highest ranked actress on the "Oracle of Bacon" website (and 21st overall), which uses the Internet Movie Database to determine which actors can be linked by the highest number of other actors in the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" trivia game.

Karen Black's Nominations

• She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work Five Easy Pieces in 1970

What else you don't know about Karen Black ?

Karen´s middle name is Blanche.

Karen Black's quotes

• My God, there aren't any more movie stars, which is terrific with me, it's very healthy. A lot of love now occurs in the business, people helping each other to do good work, getting high on each other's success. Isn't that great?
• [on the craft of acting] That's really what acting is: you imagine things, then you respond naturally to what you've imagined.
• Every time you do a part you try to find out what it would really be like to be that person, no matter who she is.
• [on Alfred Hitchcock] We'd do limericks together. One day he pulled up his shirt to show me his belly-button - which he didn't have. He'd had an operation and when they sewed him up they took it away. His belly-button was gone!
• I have to say Linda Kandel, Mascara (1999)'s director, is genius. Her aesthetics are remarkably high. I enjoyed my role immensely. I believe that when this new century closes, Linda Kandell will be honored as one of the best
• [on The Day of the Locust (1975)] I suffered a lot; seven months of agony. I wish I'd never done it.
• People who can only respect someone who scares them, they won't respect me. One has to originate a regard for certain things in order to respect me.
• Many of the films I did, I just did as a working person for money with which to live. You know which ones they were. They were pretty much all mistakes.
• It's such a mark against you if you're so inhumane that you wait till someone dies and then you make up stories about them. I think it's truly despicable. I can think of few things worse, really.
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Karen Black's height, body shape

Lets describe how Karen Black looks. We will focus on her height, body shape and hair color. Karen is tall as 5' 7" (170 cm). Body build is average. Karen´s hair is shade of brown - dark.