Karen Austin

Karen Austin’s feature film credits include Summer Rental (John Candy’s wife) & Jagged Edge. She has starred in over a dozen movies for television including Laura Lansing Slept Here (with Katherine Hepburn), The Hillside Stranglers and the mini-series Celebrity. She has re-occurred on numerous television series including Murder One, Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, Live Shot, the Trials of Rosie O’Neil, LA Law, Girlfriends, Rodney and has “guested” on multiple dozens of others. Full resume @ www.imdb.com.

Her most notable stage work includes the lead in NUTS (at the LA Stage Company) for which she won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award, Daddy’s Dying Who’s Got the Will directed by Del Shores, NAMES at the Strasburg Institute in which she played Stella Adler, and the premiere of John Ford Noonan’s Talking Things over With Chekhov. She began her stage work in Chicago with the Body Politic and in England with the Oxford Mummers.

She holds an MA in Dramatic Literature from Northwestern University. She serves on the Screen Actors Guild Board & Actors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Her best credit, she says, is mother of the luminous twenty year old Olivia.