Karen Black: movies and TV shows
Karen Black has 224 credits in the archive: 187 films and 37 TV series, from 1960 to 2025. Highest rated: People's Choice Awards (9.2/10).
Career timeline
1960 – 2025 · busiest year: 1998 (11 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Airports | Film | — | 86 | |
| 2018 | Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts | (archive footage) | Film | 5.5 | 79 |
| 2015 | Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 76 |
| 2015 | Bottomless Pit | Karen Black | Film | — | 76 |
| 2014 | Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | Linda Magnusson (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.2 | 75 |
| 2014 | Return to the 5 & Dime: An Interview with Ed Graczyk | Self – Joanne (archive footage) | Film | — | 75 |
| 2014 | Wild in Blue | Justine | Film | 4.2 | 75 |
| 2013 | Ooga Booga | Mrs. Allardyce | Film | 3.1 | 74 |
| 2013 | She Loves Me Not | Karla | Film | 3.9 | 74 |
| 2013 | Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 74 |
| 2012 | Mommy's Little Monster | Mrs. Melnick | Film | 3.5 | 73 |
| 2012 | Maria My Love | Maria | Film | 2.0 | 73 |
| 2012 | Dark Blood | Motel Woman | Film | 6.0 | 73 |
| 2012 | OowieWanna | The Donna | Film | 9.8 | 73 |
| 2012 | Hawk Warrior of the Wheelzone | Tarot | Film | — | 73 |
| 2011 | Some Guy Who Kills People | Ruth Boyd | Film | 6.1 | 72 |
| 2011 | Letters from the Big Man | Sean's Colleague | Film | 7.2 | 72 |
| 2010 | Nothing Special | May | Film | 5.0 | 71 |
| 2010 | BBStory: An American Film Renaissance | Self | Film | — | 71 |
| 2010 | Henry Jaglom Finds 'A Safe Place' | Self | Film | — | 71 |
| 2009 | Wamego: Ultimatum | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2009 | First Time Long Time | Dr. Shneidel | Film | — | 70 |
| 2009 | Double Duty | Annabelle | Film | 7.0 | 70 |
| 2009 | Repo Chick | Aunt De La Chasse | Film | 3.6 | 70 |
| 2009 | No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos | Self | Film | 5.6 | 70 |
| 2009 | Stuck! | The Neighbor Lady | Film | 2.6 | 70 |
| 2009 | Irene in Time | Sheila Shivvers | Film | 1.2 | 70 |
| 2009 | Meet the Eye | Film | — | 70 | |
| 2008 | The Blue Tooth Virgin | Zena | Film | 8.0 | 69 |
| 2008 | A Single Woman | Storyteller | Film | 5.5 | 69 |
| 2008 | Watercolors | Mrs. Martin | Film | 5.5 | 69 |
| 2008 | Contamination | Mavis | Film | 2.0 | 69 |
| 2007 | Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Jennifer | TV | 7.1 | 68 |
| 2007 | One Long Night | Barbara | Film | 3.9 | 68 |
| 2007 | Suffering Man's Charity | Renee | Film | 4.8 | 68 |
| 2007 | Hollywood Dreams | Luna | Film | 3.1 | 68 |
| 2006 | Whitepaddy | Mrs. Leider | Film | 7.5 | 67 |
| 2006 | Read You Like a Book | Kate | Film | 3.6 | 67 |
| 2006 | Wanderlust | Herself | Film | 5.9 | 67 |
| 2005 | Crazy for Love | Grace's Mom | Film | 5.6 | 66 |
| 2005 | America Brown | Marianne Brown | Film | 6.0 | 66 |
| 2005 | Dr. Rage | Molly | Film | 3.0 | 66 |
| 2005 | Firecracker | Sandra / Eleanor | Film | 6.1 | 66 |
| 2005 | Firecracker | Film | 6.1 | 66 | |
| 2005 | Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula | Agrippina | Film | 5.8 | 66 |
| 2004 | Birth of Industry | Sara | Film | 8.0 | 65 |
| 2004 | Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild | Self | Film | 2.0 | 65 |
| 2004 | WAMEGO: Making Movies Anywhere | Self | Film | 8.0 | 65 |
| 2003 | House of 1000 Corpses | Mother Firefly | Film | 6.2 | 64 |
| 2003 | Russians in the City of Angels | Patricia Sommers | TV | 8.1 | 64 |
| 2003 | Paris | Chantelle | Film | 3.0 | 64 |
| 2003 | Harold Buttleman: Daredevil Stuntman | Mrs. Buttleman | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 2003 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Self | Film | 7.1 | 64 |
| 2002 | Teknolust | Dirty Dick | Film | 4.4 | 63 |
| 2002 | Curse of the Forty-Niner | Aunt Nelly | Film | 4.3 | 63 |
| 2002 | Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 1 | ("Los Vampirios Moronious" short) | Film | — | 63 |
| 2002 | A Light in the Darkness | Mrs. Melnick | Film | 4.3 | 63 |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Vera Morgan | TV | 7.6 | 62 |
| 2001 | Plotting 'Family Plot' | Self | Film | 6.9 | 62 |
| 2001 | Soulkeeper | Martha la Magnifica | Film | 5.1 | 62 |
| 2001 | The Donor | Mrs. Springle | Film | 4.0 | 62 |
| 2001 | Gypsy 83 | Bambi LeBleau | Film | 6.5 | 62 |
| 2000 | The Independent | Karen Black | Film | 5.5 | 61 |
| 2000 | Fallen Arches | Lucy Romano | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 2000 | Red Dirt | Aunt Summer | Film | 5.7 | 61 |
| 2000 | The Invention of Dr. Morel | Film | 8.0 | 61 | |
| 2000 | Altman on His Own Terms | Self | Film | 9.0 | 61 |
| 2000 | Oliver Twisted | Mrs. Mary Happ | Film | 5.0 | 61 |
| 1999 | Mascara | Aunt Eloise | Film | 4.0 | 60 |
| 1999 | Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage | Self | Film | 7.1 | 60 |
| 1999 | Paradise Cove | Ma | Film | 6.5 | 60 |
| 1999 | Conceiving Ada | Lady Byron / Mother Coer | Film | 4.7 | 60 |
| 1999 | Karen Black: Actress at Work | Self | Film | 10.0 | 60 |
| 1999 | The Underground Comedy Movie | Mother | Film | 2.6 | 60 |
| 1998 | Rude Awakening | Crystal Garcia | TV | 6.6 | 59 |
| 1998 | Light Speed | High Priestess | Film | 2.0 | 59 |
| 1998 | Charades | Jude | Film | 4.2 | 59 |
| 1998 | Charades | Film | 4.2 | 59 | |
| 1998 | Charades | Film | 4.2 | 59 | |
| 1998 | I Woke Up Early the Day I Died | Whip Lady | Film | 5.0 | 59 |
| 1998 | Angel Blue | Social Worker | Film | 4.5 | 59 |
| 1998 | Invisible Dad | Courtney Whitmer | Film | 4.1 | 59 |
| 1998 | Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs | Self | Film | 3.0 | 59 |
| 1998 | Bury the Evidence | The Mother | Film | 8.0 | 59 |
| 1998 | Malaika | Jessica Martin | Film | 10.0 | 59 |
| 1997 | The Hunger | Miss Gati / Landlady | TV | 6.1 | 58 |
| 1997 | Who Is Henry Jaglom? | Self | Film | 6.8 | 58 |
| 1997 | Dogtown | Rose Van Horn | Film | 4.0 | 58 |
| 1997 | Men | Alex | Film | 4.5 | 58 |
| 1997 | Men | Film | 4.5 | 58 | |
| 1997 | Stir | Dr. Gabrielle Kessler | Film | 4.6 | 58 |
| 1996 | Profiler | Evie Long | TV | 7.0 | 57 |
| 1996 | Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering | June Rhodes | Film | 4.5 | 57 |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story | TV | 8.2 | 57 | |
| 1996 | Crimetime | Millicent | Film | 4.3 | 57 |
| 1996 | New York Crossing | Mrs. Tender | Film | 4.0 | 57 |
| 1996 | Cries of Silence | Rose Walsh | Film | 7.3 | 57 |
| 1996 | Every Minute Is Goodbye | Film | 6.0 | 57 | |
| 1995 | Dinosaur Valley Girls | Ro-Kell | Film | 4.3 | 56 |
| 1995 | Starstruck | Bertha | Film | 4.3 | 56 |
| 1995 | The Wacky Adventures of Dr. Boris and Nurse Shirley | Evelyn | Film | 10.0 | 56 |
| 1995 | Plan 10 from Outer Space | Nehor | Film | 6.0 | 56 |
| 1995 | Plan 10 from Outer Space | Film | 6.0 | 56 | |
| 1994 | Party of Five | Doreen Jablonsky | TV | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1994 | Too Bad About Jack | Film | 10.0 | 55 | |
| 1994 | Fertile La Toyah Video Magazine #2: The Kinky Issue! | Film | — | 55 | |
| 1994 | The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black: Teather Penumbra | Film | — | 55 | |
| 1993 | Tales of the City | Self | TV | 7.6 | 54 |
| 1993 | Bound and Gagged: A Love Story | Carla | Film | 6.0 | 54 |
| 1993 | Moon Over Miami | TV | 7.8 | 54 | |
| 1993 | Return of the Roller Blade Seven | Tarot | Film | 4.7 | 54 |
| 1993 | Legend of The Roller Blade Seven | Tarot | Film | 4.6 | 54 |
| 1993 | The Trust | Maria Vandermeer | Film | 10.0 | 54 |
| 1992 | The Player | Karen Black | Film | 7.2 | 53 |
| 1992 | Judgement | Tiffany Powers | Film | 3.9 | 53 |
| 1992 | The Double 0 Kid | Mrs. Elliot | Film | 5.0 | 53 |
| 1992 | Dead Girls Don't Tango | Insp. Wilson | Film | 4.0 | 53 |
| 1992 | Final Judgement | Mrs. Sorrel | Film | 4.0 | 53 |
| 1992 | Tuesday Never Comes | Michelle | Film | 3.7 | 53 |
| 1992 | Auntie Lee's Meat Pies | Auntie Lee | Film | 4.9 | 53 |
| 1992 | Rubin & Ed | Rula | Film | 6.5 | 53 |
| 1991 | The Roller Blade Seven | Tarot | Film | 3.2 | 52 |
| 1991 | Quiet Fire | Kim Martino | Film | 5.2 | 52 |
| 1991 | Children of the Night | Karen Thompson | Film | 4.4 | 52 |
| 1991 | Evil Spirits | Ella Purdy | Film | 3.7 | 52 |
| 1991 | Ralph S. Mouse | Miss Kuchenbacker | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 1991 | Caged Fear | Blanche | Film | 4.1 | 52 |
| 1991 | Blood Money | Barrett | Film | 5.6 | 52 |
| 1990 | Mirror Mirror | Susan Gordon | Film | 5.2 | 51 |
| 1990 | Night Angel | Rita | Film | 4.4 | 51 |
| 1990 | Twisted Justice | Mrs. Granger | Film | 5.8 | 51 |
| 1990 | Zapped Again! | Homeroom Teacher | Film | 4.2 | 51 |
| 1990 | The Children | Sybil Lullmer | Film | 4.9 | 51 |
| 1990 | Club Fed | Sally Rich | Film | 5.5 | 51 |
| 1990 | Fatal Encounter | Joan Caldwell | Film | 9.0 | 51 |
| 1990 | Overexposed | Mrs. Trowbridge | Film | 3.3 | 51 |
| 1990 | Haunting Fear | Dr. Julia Harcourt | Film | 4.7 | 51 |
| 1989 | Homer and Eddie | Belle | Film | 5.6 | 50 |
| 1988 | Out of the Dark | Ruth Wilson | Film | 5.6 | 49 |
| 1988 | The Invisible Kid | Mom | Film | 4.9 | 49 |
| 1988 | The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway | Martha Gelhorn | Film | 8.0 | 49 |
| 1988 | Dixie Lanes | Zelma Putnam | Film | 4.0 | 49 |
| 1988 | On the tracks of a filmmaker | Karen Black | Film | — | 49 |
| 1987 | Hostage | Laura Lawrence | Film | 7.5 | 48 |
| 1987 | It's Alive III: Island of the Alive | Ellen Jarvis | Film | 5.4 | 48 |
| 1987 | The Little Mermaid | Sea Witch | Film | 6.8 | 48 |
| 1986 | Worlds Beyond | Lee Jeffreys | TV | 5.8 | 47 |
| 1986 | Invaders from Mars | Linda Magnusson | Film | 5.6 | 47 |
| 1986 | Flight of the Spruce Goose | Gloria | Film | 8.0 | 47 |
| 1985 | Eternal Evil | Janus | Film | 4.4 | 46 |
| 1985 | Martin's Day | Karen | Film | 6.4 | 46 |
| 1985 | Savage Dawn | Rachel | Film | 4.4 | 46 |
| 1985 | Cut and Run | Karin | Film | 5.3 | 46 |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Dr. Sylvia Dunn | TV | 7.5 | 45 |
| 1984 | Miami Vice | Helen Jackson | TV | 7.4 | 45 |
| 1984 | E/R | TV | 5.6 | 45 | |
| 1984 | Bad Manners | Gladys Fitzpatrick | Film | 5.8 | 45 |
| 1983 | The Hitchhiker | Kay Mason | TV | 6.3 | 44 |
| 1983 | Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? | Zee | Film | 5.9 | 44 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Self | TV | 6.6 | 43 |
| 1982 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Guest Interviewee | TV | 8.1 | 43 |
| 1982 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Sea Witch | TV | 8.1 | 43 |
| 1982 | The Last Horror Film | Karen Black (uncredited) | Film | 5.3 | 43 |
| 1982 | Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | Joanne | Film | 6.0 | 43 |
| 1982 | Miss Right | Amy | Film | 4.3 | 43 |
| 1981 | Chanel Solitaire | Emilienne d'Alençon | Film | 5.0 | 42 |
| 1981 | Separate Ways | Valentine Colby | Film | 4.7 | 42 |
| 1981 | The Grass Is Singing | Mary Turner | Film | 4.7 | 42 |
| 1980 | Power | Rose Vanda-Buchanan | TV | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1980 | Where the Ladies Go | Helen | Film | 10.0 | 41 |
| 1980 | Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop | Investigator Evelyn Carter | Film | 3.0 | 41 |
| 1979 | Killer Fish | Kate | Film | 4.7 | 40 |
| 1979 | Mr. Horn | Ernestina Crawford | TV | — | 40 |
| 1979 | Mr. Horn | Ernestina Crawford | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1979 | The Last Word | Paula Herbert | Film | 5.0 | 40 |
| 1978 | In Praise of Older Women | Maya | Film | 5.3 | 39 |
| 1978 | The Squeeze | Clarisse Saunders | Film | 5.9 | 39 |
| 1978 | Because He's My Friend | Anne | Film | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1977 | Capricorn One | Judy Drinkwater | Film | 6.8 | 38 |
| 1977 | The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver | Miriam Oliver / Sandy | Film | 6.4 | 38 |
| 1976 | Family Plot | Fran | Film | 6.8 | 37 |
| 1976 | Burnt Offerings | Marian Rolf | Film | 6.5 | 37 |
| 1976 | Crime and Passion | Susan Winters | Film | 6.9 | 37 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 36 |
| 1975 | People's Choice Awards | Self | TV | 9.2 | 36 |
| 1975 | Nashville | Connie White | Film | 7.2 | 36 |
| 1975 | Nashville | Film | 7.2 | 36 | |
| 1975 | The Day of the Locust | Faye Greener | Film | 6.4 | 36 |
| 1975 | Trilogy of Terror | Julie / Millicent Larimore / Therese Larimore / Amelia | Film | 6.2 | 36 |
| 1974 | The Great Gatsby | Myrtle Wilson | Film | 6.3 | 35 |
| 1974 | Airport 1975 | Nancy Pryor | Film | 5.8 | 35 |
| 1974 | Law and Disorder | Gloria | Film | 5.0 | 35 |
| 1974 | Rhinoceros | Daisy | Film | 5.6 | 35 |
| 1973 | Police Story | Office Evelyn Carter | TV | 7.0 | 34 |
| 1973 | The Outfit | Bett Harrow | Film | 6.8 | 34 |
| 1973 | The Pyx | Elizabeth Lucy | Film | 5.4 | 34 |
| 1973 | The Pyx | Film | 5.4 | 34 | |
| 1973 | Little Laura and Big John | Laura | Film | 4.3 | 34 |
| 1972 | Ghost Story | Barbara Sanders | TV | 7.4 | 33 |
| 1972 | Cisco Pike | Sue | Film | 5.6 | 33 |
| 1972 | Portnoy's Complaint | Mary Jane Reid a.k.a. Monkey | Film | 4.7 | 33 |
| 1971 | A Gunfight | Jenny Simms | Film | 5.8 | 32 |
| 1971 | Drive, He Said | Olive | Film | 5.7 | 32 |
| 1971 | Born to Win | Parm | Film | 5.3 | 32 |
| 1970 | Five Easy Pieces | Rayette Dipesto | Film | 7.1 | 31 |
| 1969 | Easy Rider | Karen | Film | 7.1 | 30 |
| 1969 | Hard Contract | Ellen | Film | 5.0 | 30 |
| 1968 | Adam-12 | Susan Decker | TV | 7.1 | 29 |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game | Monica Garrison | TV | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1967 | Mannix | TV | 6.8 | 28 | |
| 1967 | The Carol Burnett Show | Self - Guest / Various Characters | TV | 7.7 | 28 |
| 1967 | The Invaders | Claudia Stone | TV | 6.9 | 28 |
| 1967 | Judd, for the Defense | TV | 7.7 | 28 | |
| 1967 | The Second Hundred Years | Marcia | TV | 6.5 | 28 |
| 1966 | You're a Big Boy Now | Amy Partlett | Film | 6.1 | 27 |
| 1965 | The Big Valley | Carla | TV | 6.2 | 26 |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Lorraine Chapman | TV | 5.6 | 26 |
| 1965 | Run for Your Life | Jennifer Palmer | TV | 7.1 | 26 |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | TV | 7.5 | 23 |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | TV | 5.8 | 22 |
| 1960 | The Prime Time | Betty | Film | 4.5 | 21 |
| George Sluizer - Filming beyond Bounderies | Self | Film | — | — | |
| Science Fiction Film Awards | Herself | TV | — | — | |
| Vacationland | Louise | Film | — | — |