Karen Young (actress)
Karen Young ( born September 29, 1958 in Pequannock, New Jersey, USA) is an American actress.
Life and achievements
Young attended Rutgers University. She has five younger siblings. To act in order, she moved to the city of New York. In the theater she appeared in the play A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard. Your cinema debut was in the action drama Handgun - The Second Amendment (1983 ), in which she held the lead role.
Throughout her career, Young embodied over thirty roles, including the anti-war film Birdy (1984 ) directed by Alan Parker starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, in 9 1/ 2 weeks ( 1986) by Adrian Lyne starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger in thriller The Strangler (1988 ) by Martin Campbell with Gary Oldman and Kevin Bacon, and in the action film Daylight (1996 ) by Rob Cohen, starring Sylvester Stallone. In the short films A Blink of Paradise (1992 ) and The Pesky Suitor (1995 ), she participated as a director, screenwriter and producer. In the psychological thriller Mercy - The Dark Side of Lust ( 2000) Damian Harris starring Ellen Barkin and Peta Wilson Young have both victim and perpetrator dar. Between 2002 and 2006 she appeared in several episodes of the television series The Sopranos.
Karen Young was married some time with actor Tom Noonan and has two children.