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Actress (204 credits)

A Walk Into a Split Mind (post-production)

Deadly Tales IV (Video) (post-production)
Cheryl Holly (voice)

2015 Bottomless Pit (Short)
Narration

2015 Wild in Blue
Justine

2013 OowieWanna (Short)
The Donna

2013 She Loves Me Not
Karla

2013 Ooga Booga
Mrs. Allardyce

2012 Window Dressing (TV Series)
Beth

- Til Beth Do Us Part (2012) ... Beth

2012 Dark Blood
Motel Woman

2012/II Vacationland
Louise Bergen

2012 Warnings from the Bathtub (Short)
Mother

2012 Hawk Warrior of the Wheelzone
Tarot

2012 Mommy's Little Monster
Mrs. Melnick

2011 Maria My Love
Maria

2011 Letters from the Big Man
Sean's Colleague

2011 Some Guy Who Kills People
Ruth Boyd

2010 Nothing Special
May

2010 Funny or Die Presents... (TV Series)
Debbie Rubbie

- Episode #1.8 (2010) ... Debbie Rubbie

2010 Better People (TV Movie)
Marci

2010 Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (TV Series)
Jennifer

- Choices (2010) ... Jennifer

2009 First Time Long Time (Short)
Dr. Shneidel

2009 Double Duty
Annabelle

2009 Stuck!
Next Door Neighbor Lady

2009 Repo Chick
Aunt de la Chasse

2009 Irene in Time
Sheila Shivvers

2009 Meet the Eye (Short)

2008 A Single Woman
Storyteller

2008 The Blue Tooth Virgin
Zena

2008 Watercolors
Mrs. Martin

2008 Contamination
Mavis

2007 One Long Night
Barbara

2007 Suffering Man's Charity
Renee

2006 Whitepaddy
Mrs. Leider

2006 Read You Like a Book
Kate

2006 Hollywood Dreams
Luna

2005 The Straun House
Molly

2005 Firecracker
Sandra / Eleanor

2005 Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula (Short)
Agrippina

2005 Crazy for Love
Grace's Mom

2005/I Carma
Kate Burns (voice)

2005 Love Wine (TV Movie)
Aunt Anita

2004 Birth of Industry (Short)
Sara

2004 America Brown
Marianne Brown

2003 Buttleman
Mrs. Buttleman

2003 The Work of Director Chris Cunningham (Video)
Dancer (segment "Windowlicker")

2003 Summer Solstice
Dr. Sally McDermott

2003 Paris
Chantelle

2003 House of 1000 Corpses
Mother Firefly

2003 Russians in the City of Angels (TV Series)
Patricia Sommers

- Priklyuchenie (2003) ... Patricia Sommers

2003 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series)
Vera Morgan

- Con-Text (2003) ... Vera Morgan

2002 Curse of the Forty-Niner
Aunt Nelly

2002 A Light in the Darkness
Mrs. Melnick

2002 Teknolust
Dirty Dick

2001 Soulkeeper
Magnificent Martha

2001 Hard Luck
Aunt Judy

2001 Gypsy 83
Bambi LeBleau

2001 The Donor
Mrs. Springle / Françoise's mother

2000 Inviati speciali

2000 Oliver Twisted
Mrs. Mary Happ

2000 Red Dirt
Summer / Griffith's Aunt

2000 Fallen Arches
Lucy Romano

1999 Paradise Cove
Ma

1999 Rude Awakening (TV Series)
Crystal Garcia

- One Birthday at a Time (1999) ... Crystal Garcia

- The Grateful Living (1999) ... Crystal Garcia

1999 Mascara
Aunt Eloise

1999 The Underground Comedy Movie
Mother

1998 Light Speed
High Priestess

1998 Stripping for Jesus (Short)

1998 Waiting for Dr. MacGuffin (Short)
Dental Assistant

1998 Charades
Jude

1998 Party of Five (TV Series)
Doreen Jablonsky

- One Christmas, to Go (1998) ... Doreen Jablonsky

1998 Malaika
Jessica Martin

1998 Bury the Evidence
The Mother

1998 My Neighbor's Daughter (TV Movie)
Social Worker

1998 Sugar: The Fall of the West

1998 I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
Whip Lady

1998 Profiler (TV Series)
Evie Long

- Cycle of Violence (1998) ... Evie Long

1998 Invisible Dad (Video)
Courtney Whitmer

1997 Modern Rhapsody

1997 Dogtown
Rose Van Horn

1997 Men
Alex

1997 Conceiving Ada
Lady Byron / Mother Coer

1997 Stir
Dr. Gabrielle Kessler

1997 The Hunger (TV Series)
Miss Gati / Landlady

- Menage a Trois (1997) ... Miss Gati / Landlady

1997 Greater Than a Tiger (Short)
Paige

1996 Dinosaur Valley Girls
Ro-Kell

1996 Every Minute Is Goodbye
Schubert

1996 New York Crossing (TV Movie)
Mrs. Tender

1996 Children of the Corn: The Gathering (Video)
June Rhodes

1996 Crimetime
Millicent

1996 Sister Island
Rose Walsh

1995 Starstruck
Bertha

1995 The Wacky Adventures of Dr. Boris and Nurse Shirley
Evelyn

1995 Plan 10 from Outer Space
Nehor

1994 Too Bad About Jack

1994 The Ramones: Substitute (Video short)
Mother (uncredited)

1993 Moon Over Miami (TV Series)
Lorraine Pitzer

- Watching the Detectives (1993) ... Lorraine Pitzer

1993 Return of the Roller Blade Seven
Tarot

1993 Bound and Gagged: A Love Story
Carla

1993 The Trust
Maria Vandermeer

1993 In the Heat of the Night (TV Series)
Carla Ray

- A Dish Best Served Cold (1993) ... Carla Ray

1993 Movies Money Murder
Bettie

1992 Dead Girls Don't Tango
Insp. Wilson

1992 Legend of the Roller Blade Seven
Tarot

1992 The Double 0 Kid (Video)
Mrs. Elliot

1992 Auntie Lee's Meat Pies
Auntie Lee

1992 Hitz
Tiffany Powers

1992 Final Judgement (Video)
Mrs. Sorrel

1992 Tuesday Never Comes
Michelle

1992 The Player
Karen Black

1991 Quiet Fire (Video)
Kim Martino

1991 Children of the Night
Karen Thompson

1991 The Roller Blade Seven
Tarot

1991 Rubin and Ed
Rula

1991 Caged Fear
Blanche

1991 The Killers Edge (Video)
Barrett

1991 ABC Weekend Specials (TV Series)
Miss Kuchenbacker

- Ralph S. Mouse (1991) ... Miss Kuchenbacker

1990 Evil Spirits
Ella Purdy

1990 Fatal Encounter
Joan Caldwell

1990 The Children
Sybil Lullmer

1990 Haunting Fear (Video)
Dr. Julia Harcourt

1990 Club Fed
Sally Rich

1990 Mirror Mirror
Susan Gordon

1990 Night Angel
Rita

1990 Zapped Again! (Video)
Substitute Teacher

1990 Twisted Justice
Mrs. Granger

1990 Overexposed
Mrs. Trowbridge

1989 The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Martha Gelhorn

1989 Homer and Eddie
Belle

1989 Miami Vice (TV Series)
Helen Jackson

- Victims of Circumstance (1989) ... Helen Jackson

1988 Platinum Blonde (Short)

1988 Out of the Dark
Ruth

1988 Dixie Lanes
Zelma Putnam

1988 The Invisible Kid
Mom / Deborah

1987 The Hitchhiker (TV Series)
Kay Mason

- Hired Help (1987) ... Kay Mason

1987 Stevie Wonder: Skeletons (Video short)
Karen Black

1987 It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
Ellen Jarvis

1985-1987 Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series)
Sea Witch / Guest Interviewee

- The Little Mermaid (1987) ... Sea Witch

- Grimm Party (1985) ... Guest Interviewee

1987 Worlds Beyond (TV Series)
Lee Jeffreys

- Suffer Little Children (1987) ... Lee Jeffreys

1986/II Hostage
Laura Lawrence

1986 Invaders from Mars
Linda Magnusson

1986 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)
Dr. Sylvia Dunn

- One Good Bid Deserves a Murder (1986) ... Dr. Sylvia Dunn

1986 Flight of the Spruce Goose
Gloria

1985 Savage Dawn
Rachel

1985 Eternal Evil
Janus

1985 Cut and Run
Karin

1985 Martin's Day
Karen

1984-1985 E/R (TV Series)
Sheila Sheinfeld

- Merry Wives of Sheinfeld: Part 2 (1985) ... Sheila Sheinfeld

- Merry Wives of Sheinfeld: Part 1 (1985) ... Sheila Sheinfeld

- Enter Romance (1984) ... Sheila Sheinfeld

1985 Miss Right
Amy

1984 A Stroke of Genius

1984 Kid Creole & The Coconuts: There's Something Wrong in Paradise (TV Movie)
Gina Gina

1984 Bad Manners
Gladys Fitzpatrick

1983 Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Zee

1982 The Last Horror Film
Karen Black (uncredited)

1982 Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Joanne

1981 Chanel Solitaire
Emilienne d'Alençon

1981 Killing Heat
Mary Turner

1981 Separate Ways
Valentine Colby

1980 Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop (TV Movie)
Investigator Evelyn Carter

1980 Where the Ladies Go (TV Movie)
Helen

1980 Power (TV Movie)
Rose Vanda-Buchanan

1979 The Last Word
Paula Herbert

1979 Killer Fish
Kate

1979 Mr. Horn (TV Movie)
Ernestina Crawford

1978 In Praise of Older Women
Maya

1978 The Squeeze
Clarisse Saunders

1978 Because He's My Friend (TV Movie)
Anne

1977 Capricorn One
Judy Drinkwater

1977 The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver (TV Movie)
Miriam Oliver / Sandy

1976 Burnt Offerings
Marian Rolf

1976 Family Plot
Fran

1976 Crime and Passion
Susan Winters

1975 Nashville
Connie White

1975 The Day of the Locust
Faye

1975 Trilogy of Terror (TV Movie)
Julie / Millicent / Therese / ...

1974 Airport 1975
Nancy Pryor

1974 Law and Disorder
Gloria

1974 The Great Gatsby
Myrtle Wilson

1974 Rhinoceros
Daisy

1973 The Outfit
Bett Harrow

1973 The Pyx
Elizabeth Lucy

1973 Little Laura and Big John
Laura

1972 Circle of Fear (TV Series)
Barbara Sanders

- Bad Connection (1972) ... Barbara Sanders

1972 Portnoy's Complaint
Mary Jane Reid (The Monkey)

1971 Born to Win
Parm

1971 Cisco Pike
Sue

1971 A Gunfight
Jenny Simms

1971/I Drive, He Said
Olive

1970/II Freedom (Short)

1970 Five Easy Pieces
Rayette Dipesto

1970 Hastings Corner (TV Movie)
Jenny Honker

1969 The Name of the Game (TV Series)
Monica Garrison

- Give Till It Hurts (1969) ... Monica Garrison (as Caran Black)

1969 Easy Rider
Karen

1969 Hard Contract
Ellen

1968 Adam-12 (TV Series)
Susan Decker

- Log 132: Producer (1968) ... Susan Decker

1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series)
Alethea Staunton

- The Devil's Surrogate (1968) ... Alethea Staunton

1968 Mannix (TV Series)
Elaine Tate

- License to Kill - Limit Three People (1968) ... Elaine Tate

1967 Iron Horse (TV Series)
Patricia Dunne

- The Prisoners (1967) ... Patricia Dunne

1967 The Invaders (TV Series)
Claudia Stone

- The Ransom (1967) ... Claudia Stone

1967 The Second Hundred Years (TV Series)
Marcia

- Luke Alikes (1967) ... Marcia

- On Bended Knee (1967) ... Marcia

1967 The Big Valley (TV Series)
Carla

- Days of Grace (1967) ... Carla

1967 Run for Your Life (TV Series)
Jennifer Palmer

- Tell It to the Dead (1967) ... Jennifer Palmer

1967 The F.B.I. (TV Series)
Lorraine Chapman

- The Satellite (1967) ... Lorraine Chapman

1966 You're a Big Boy Now
Amy Partlett

1960 The Prime Time
Betty - Painted Woman

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Soundtrack (14 credits)

2020 Beyond Blue (Video Game) (performer: "Brighter!")

2019 Russian Doll (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- A Warm Body (2019) ... (performer: "Dreams-Come-True-Girl" - uncredited)

2005 Firecracker (performer: "J'Attendrai" (Tornerai))

2001 Gypsy 83 (performer: "When Sunny Gets Blue", "I Want a Lip", "Walking in the Jungle")

1997 Dogtown (performer: "Love God")

1997 The Hunger (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Menage a Trois (1997) ... (performer: "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow" - uncredited)

1986 The Road to Freedom: L. Ron Hubbard and Friends (Video documentary short) ("The ARC Song")

1982 Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (performer: "Wives & Lovers")

1977 Dolly (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Featuring Karen Black (1977) ... (performer: "Me and Bobby McGee")

1976 Saturday Night Live (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Karen Black/John Prine (1976) ... (performer: "Ten Cents A Dance")

1975 Nashville (lyrics: "I Don't Know If I Found It in You") / (music: "I Don't Know If I Found It in You") / (performer: "Memphis", "Rolling Stone", "I Don't Know If I Found It in You") / (writer: "Memphis", "Rolling Stone")

1973 The Pyx (performer: "Song of Solomon Chapter Three Verses 1-4", "I Was Touched By Your Passing Through", "It All Turned Out The Way I Planned It") / (writer: "Song of Solomon Chapter Three Verses 1-4", "I Was Touched By Your Passing Through", "It All Turned Out The Way I Planned It")

1971 Born to Win (performer: "Ballad in C") / (writer: "Ballad in C")

1970 Five Easy Pieces (performer: "Don't Touch Me" - uncredited)

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Writer (7 credits)

2000 The Invention of Dr. Morel (Short)

1999 Edna McCoy's Festival (Short) (writer)

1998 Charades (writer)

1998 Malaika (additional story)

1997 Men

1996 Going Home (Short)

1993 Movies Money Murder

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Composer (1 credit)

1975 Nashville

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Editorial department (1 credit)

2005 Firecracker (editorial consultant)

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Producer (1 credit)

1998 Charades (producer)

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Thanks (5 credits)

2016 American Killing (in loving memory of)

2015 Bottomless Pit (Short) (in cosmic loving memory)

2015 Salat Kaligula (Short) (in memory of)

2013 5% (Short) (film dedicated to)

1999 Reputations (TV Series documentary) (with thanks to - 1 episode)

- Hitch: Alfred the Auteur (1999) ... (with thanks to)

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Self (61 credits)

2014 Stage Door Divas (Documentary)

2014 5th Annual World Music & Independent Film Festival
Self - 5th annual Lifetime Achievement Award

2014 Karen Black: On Acting (Video documentary)
Self

2013 Brighter Featuring Karen Black (Short)
Self

2010 Henry Jaglom Finds a Safe Place (Video documentary short)
Self

2010 Soul Searching in Five Easy Pieces (Video documentary short)
Self

2009 Independent Lens (TV Series documentary)
Self

- No Subtitles Necessary: László and Vilmos (2009) ... Self

2009 Wamego: Ultimatum (Video documentary)
Self

2008 No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (Documentary)
Self

2007 The John Kerwin Show (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Episode dated 12 December 2007 (2007) ... Self - Guest

2007 Wamego Strikes Back (Documentary)
Self

2006 Trilogy of Terror: Three Colors Black (Video documentary short)
Self

2006 George Sluizer - Filmen over grenzen (Documentary)
Self

2006 Wanderlust (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2005 On Screen! (TV Series documentary)
Self

- In Praise of Older Women (2005) ... Self

2004 Biography (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild (2004) ... Self

2004 Film Trix 2004 (Documentary short)
Self

2004 Wamego: Making Movies Anywhere (Video documentary)
Self

2003 Switched! (TV Series)
Self

- Celine and Brandon (2003) ... Self

2003 Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Documentary)
Self

2002 Fans and Freaks: The Culture of Comics and Conventions (Documentary)
Self

2001 The Big Show (TV Movie)
Self

2001 Plotting 'Family Plot' (Video documentary)
Self

2000 The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Self - Audience Member

2000 The Independent
Self

1999 Karen Black: Actress at Work (Documentary)
Self

1999 Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage (Video documentary)
Self

1999 Decoupage 2000: Return of the Goddess (Short)
Self

1999 The Paul Kent Show (TV Series)
Self

- Night of 100 Stars (1999) ... Self

1995 Who Is Henry Jaglom? (Documentary)
Self

1994 Jonas in the Desert (Documentary)
Self

1993 Tales of the City (TV Mini-Series)
Self

- Episode #1.3 (1993) ... Self

1989-1990 The Pat Sajak Show (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Episode #1.249 (1990) ... Self - Guest

- Episode #1.83 (1989) ... Self - Guest

1989 Circus of the Stars #14 (TV Special documentary)
Self - Elephant Act

1989 This Is Your Life (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Omar Sharif (1989) ... Self

1986 The Road to Freedom: L. Ron Hubbard and Friends (Video documentary short)
Self

1985 The 42nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV Special)
Self - Presenter

1984 The Don Harron Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 24 February 1984 (1984) ... Self

1984 Breakaway (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.101 (1984) ... Self

1976-1981 Saturday Night Live (TV Series)
Self - Host / Various / Mona Lisa / ...

- Karen Black/Cheap Trick/Stanley Clarke Trio (1981) ... Self - Host / Mona Lisa / Various

- Karen Black/John Prine (1976) ... Self - Host / Catherine the Great / Various

1979 Road to Yucca Luna (TV Special)

1978 America 2-Night (TV Series)
Self

- Karen Black (1978) ... Self

1978 The 50th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Self - Performer

1978 Science Fiction Film Awards (TV Special documentary)
Self - Host

1977 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Bette Davis (TV Special documentary)
Self (uncredited)

1977 Dolly (TV Series)
Self

- Featuring Karen Black (1977) ... Self

1975-1977 The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series)
Self - Actress

- Episode #16.105 (1977) ... Self - Actress

- Episode #14.185 (1975) ... Self - Actress

1977 Circus of the Stars (TV Special)
Self - Performer

1976 Gala de l'union (TV Series)
Self

- 43ème gala de l'union des artistes (1976) ... Self

1976 The Bobby Vinton Show (TV Series)
Self

- Karen Black (1976) ... Self

1971-1976 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Episode dated 21 July 1976 (1976) ... Self - Guest

- Episode dated 29 July 1975 (1975) ... Self - Guest

- Episode dated 8 January 1975 (1975) ... Self - Guest

- Episode dated 15 October 1973 (1973) ... Self - Guest

- Episode dated 19 January 1973 (1973) ... Self - Guest

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1976 Pour le cinéma (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 26 June 1976 (1976) ... Self

1976 The 2nd Annual People's Choice Awards (TV Special)
Self - Presenter

1974 The 28th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special)
Self - Presenter

1973 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series)
Self

- Nancy Sinatra, Wayne Rogers, Richard Thomas, Karen Black (1973) ... Self

1972 The Dean Martin Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #8.4 (1972) ... Self

1972 The 44th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Self - Presenter

1972 The Carol Burnett Show (TV Series)
Self - Guest / Various Characters

- Episode #5.23 (1972) ... Self - Guest / Various Characters

1971-1972 Rollin' on the River (TV Series)
Self

- John Stewart (1972) ... Self

- Karen Black, Ian & Sylvia Tyson (1971) ... Self

1971 The David Frost Show (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Episode #4.29 (1971) ... Self - Guest

- Episode #3.69 (1971) ... Self - Guest

1971 The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Self - Nominee

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Archive footage (13 credits)

Hollywood Celebrity (Documentary) (post-production)
Self

2021 Pictures of Shadows

2018 Bunker of Blood: Chapter 2 - Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts (Video)

2014 Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (Documentary)
Linda Magnusson (uncredited)

2014 The Oscars (TV Special)
Self - Actress (In Memoriam)

2014 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special)
Self - In Memoriam

2013 Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (Documentary)
Self

2010 Troma Is Spanish for Troma (Documentary)

2010 Saucy 70's Volume 2 (Video documentary)

2000 A Conversation with Robert Altman (Video documentary short)
Connie White (uncredited)

1990 Hollywood Mavericks (Documentary)
Rayette Dipesto

1987 Give Me Your Answer True (Documentary)

1976 America at the Movies (Documentary)
Rayette Dipesto (uncredited)

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