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Karen Young | |
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 Karen Young at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival | |
| Born | September 29, 1958 |
| Alma mater | Rutgers University |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1983–2012 |
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| Children | 2 |
Karen Young (born September 29, 1958) is an American former film, television, and stage actress.
Young was born in Pequannock Township, New Jersey on September 29, 1958. [1] She graduated from Douglass Residential College at Rutgers University as an English major. [2] [3]
After graduation, Young moved to New York City and became an actress. She was working as a waitress when she saw an advertisement in Backstage that read: "Wanted: 24-year-old Irish Catholic girl with long blonde hair." Young responded to the ad and ended up starring in Tony Garnett's 1983 vigilante thriller Handgun , for which she had her hair cut off and in which she agreed to appear topless. [4]
She also appeared in films such as 9½ Weeks , Heat (1986), Jaws: The Revenge , Torch Song Trilogy, Night Game , The Wife , Daylight and Mercy . Young portrayed Sister Mary in The Orphan Killer (2011), and starred in many U.S. independent and foreign films including Heading South , [3] Two Gates of Sleep and Conviction .
On television, Young portrayed FBI Agent Robyn Sanseverino on The Sopranos [5] as well as various characters in the Law & Order franchise.
Her stage credits include roles in both New York productions of Sam Shephard's A Lie of the Mind , playing daughter Sally in 1985 and mother Lorraine in Ethan Hawke's 2010 production. [6] [7] Young and the rest of the cast were recognized as some of the "best performers of 2010" by Hilton Als in The New Yorker . [8]
Young married actor Tom Noonan [9] in 1992, and they had two children together before their 1999 divorce. She married Ken Eisen in 2012. [10]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Handgun | Kathleen Sullivan | |
| 1984 | Maria's Lovers | Rosie | |
| 1984 | Almost You | Lisa Willoughby | |
| 1984 | Birdy | Hannah Rourke | |
| 1985 | Night Magic | Doubt | Voice |
| 1986 | 9½ Weeks | Sue | |
| 1986 | Heat | Holly | |
| 1987 | Jaws: The Revenge | Carla Brody | |
| 1988 | Criminal Law | Ellen Faulkner | |
| 1988 | Torch Song Trilogy | Laurel | |
| 1989 | Little Sweetheart | Dorothea | |
| 1989 | Night Game | Roxy | |
| 1991 | The Boy Who Cried Bitch | Candice Love | |
| 1992 | Hoffa | Young Woman At RTA | |
| 1995 | The Wife | Arlie | |
| 1996 | Daylight | Sarah Crighton | |
| 1998 | Pants on Fire | Dierdre Grogan | |
| 1999 | Joe the King | Theresa Henry | |
| 2000 | Mercy | Mary | |
| 2001 | Falling Like This | Dolly | |
| 2005 | Factotum | Grace | |
| 2005 | Heading South | Brenda | |
| 2008 | Restless | Yolanda | |
| 2008 | Bonne année | Ellen | |
| 2009 | Handsome Harry | Muriel | |
| 2010 | Two Gates of Sleep | Bess | |
| 2010 | Twelve Thirty | Vivien | |
| 2010 | Conviction | Elizabeth Waters | |
| 2011 | The Green | Janette | |
| 2011 | Warrior Woman | Alice | |
| 2011 | The Orphan Killer | Sister Mary | |
| 2012 | The Sumo Wrestler | Kathy |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1985 | The Equalizer | Officer Sandra Stahl | Episode: "Lady Cop" |
| 1986 | The High Price of Passion | Robin Benedict | Television film |
| 1988 | Wild Things | Jane | |
| 1991 | The Summer My Father Grew Up | Chandelle | |
| 1991 | The 10 Million Dollar Getaway | Theresa | |
| 1992 | Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel | Faye Vaughan | 2 episodes |
| 1992 | L.A. Law | Marcia Trafficante | Episode: "Silence of the Lambskins" |
| 1996–2010 | Law & Order | Various | 4 episodes |
| 1997 | On the Edge of Innocence | Mrs. Victoria Tyler | Television film |
| 2001 | Third Watch | Shirley Holsclaw | Episode: "Man Enough" |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Denise Talbott | Episode: "Jones" |
| 2002–2006 | The Sopranos | FBI Agent Robyn Sanseverino | 10 episodes |
| 2004-2011 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Dr. Meg Whitmere / Christina Nerrit | 3 episodes |
| 2011 | CSI: Miami | Diana Chandler | Episode: "F-T-F" |
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