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Black was born Karen Blanche Ziegler on July 1, 1939, in Park Ridge, Illinois, the third child of Elsie Mary (née Reif), a writer of several prize-winning children's novels, and Norman Arthur Ziegler, an engineer and businessman.
It was revealed posthumously that Karen Black had a daughter with Robert Benedetti, Diane Koehnemann Bay, who was born March 4, 1959, when Karen was a 19-year-old divorcée studying at Northwestern. Diane was adopted at birth by Don and Joan Koehnemann.
- July 1, 1939
- August 8, 2013
children: Celine Eckelberry, Diane Koehnemann Bay, Hunter Carson. Born Karen Blanche Ziegler on July 1, 1939, in Park Ridge, Illinois, in suburban Chicago, Black was one of three children of Elsie Mary (née Reif) and Norman Arthur Ziegler. Black had a brother, Peter, and a sister, actress Gail Brown.
Recently viewed. Karen Black. Actress: Five Easy Pieces. Karen entered Northwestern University at 18 and left two years later. She studied under Lee Strasberg in New York and worked in a number of off-Broadway roles. She made a critically acclaimed debut on Broadway in 1965 in "The Playroom". Her first big film role was in You're a Big Boy Now ...
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- Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
Carson was born in Culver City, California, the son of actress Karen Black and actor, producer, screenwriter and director L. M. Kit Carson. He is the stepson of Stephen Eckelberry.
Aug 9, 2013 · Columbia Pictures. By Bruce Weber. Aug. 8, 2013. Karen Black, an actress whose roles in several signature films of the late 1960s and ’70s included a prostitute who shared an LSD trip with...
The synopsis says: “A bored young girl looking for excitement gets involved with nude modeling, drugs and a rock band.” Black was born Karen Blanche Ziegler in 1939 in suburban Chicago (her mother wrote popular children’s books), so she would have been twenty years old in her film debut.