The daughter of award-winning children's author Elsie Reif, Karen Black was born Karen Blanche Ziegler in Park Ridge, Ill., on July 1, 1942. She made her onstage acting debut in "The Playroom" (1965) and earned a Drama Circle Critic Award nod for her efforts, landing her first big film role the following year in Francis Ford Coppola's You're a Big Boy Now.She topped her star-making turn in Easy Rider (1969) with an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win playing opposite Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces (1970), collecting another Golden Globe trophy for The Great Gatsby (1974) and yet another nomination for The Day of the Locust (1975). Black was even nominated for a Grammy Award for her singing efforts in Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).
Among the actress's more notable work in the new millennium was her dual performance in the critically acclaimed Firecracker (2005).
AddFamily PlotAlfred Hitchcock's final film (at age 76) is an easygoing suspense mystery. An atypically heroic Bruce Dern (who was in Hitch's Marnie 12 years earlier) plays a cabbie who teams with a semi-phony psychic (Barbara Harris) to collect a big reward by finding a kidnapped millionaire. Watch for visual... Read More
AddBurnt OfferingsA vacationing family rents a sprawling mansion for the summer and soon discovers that all is not as it should be. Among other equally strange things, dead plants come back to life, and the swimming pool kills bathers -- which makes a quick dip out of the question. Stars Oliver Reed, Karen Black,... Read More
AddMiner's MassacreA group of young people believe their ship has finally come in when they discover a stash of gold in a long-abandoned mine. But when the eager beavers remove the gold, they unleash "The Curse of the 49'er" in the form of an angry, ancient miner who has no qualms about using his pickaxe to mine... Read More
AddMirror MirrorA recent widow (Karen Black) and her young daughter (Rainbow Harvest) try to put their past behind them by moving into a new house. Everything seems peaceful until they realize that the previous owner was a very tortured soul. By then, it's too late, as the two women discover that a mirror that... Read More
AddStraun HouseAfter being admitted against his will to the Straun House, a psychiatric facility for patients with rage disorder run by a sadistic doctor (Andrew Divoff), Michael Dare (Stephen Polk) becomes an unwilling participant in a series of painful experiments that leave him feeling more like an animal than... Read More
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