Karen Kahn

Biography

Karen Kahn (born October 31, 1957, New Jersey, USA) is an American actress who grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, where she performed in ballet productions and community theater. She earned her Equity card performing summer stock with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera before attending the Lee Strasberg Drama Program at New York University. She relocated to Los Angeles, where she landed her first major film role in Inchon (1981) opposite Ben Gazzara, and later moved to Northern California in the early 1980s, where she has been based in San Francisco. She has worked across film, television, commercials, corporate films, theater, and trade shows for over four decades. Her notable film credits include Inchon (1981) (Ben Gazzara, David Suchet), The Dead Pool (1988) (Clint Eastwood, Farrah Fawcett), Raising Cain (1992) (Linda Fiorentino, James Spader), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) (Robin Williams, Sally Field), Getting Even with Dad (1994) (John Cusack, Jamie Lee Curtis), Village of the Damned (1995) (Sandy Whitlock, Lara Flynn Boyle), Black Sheep (1996) (Chris Farley, David Spade), Metro (1997) (Eddie Murphy, John Leguizamo), High Crimes (2002) (Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) (Will Smith, Jaden Smith), and Steve Jobs (2015) (Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet). On television she has appeared in Nash Bridges (1996–1997, 2021), 13 Reasons Why (2017–2019), and Disconnected (2020)