Karen Ingenthron
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Karen Ingenthron (born 16 April 1945) is an American actress and radio commentator.
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[edit] Education
In high school she spent her senior year in Denmark as an exchange student with the American Field Service. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Dramatic Art. She later performed at the Boulder Shakespeare Festival, the American Conservatory Theater, the Magic Theater, the Actors Repertory Theater, and was a founding member of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where she acted in over 50 plays.
[edit] Career in New York and Los Angeles
In 1979, Ingenthron moved to New York City and appeared in a production of California Suite with Al Lewis. She moved to Los Angeles, where she stayed for three years, and had a role on an episode of the television series Lou Grant in 1980. Returning to New York, she married Lewis in 1984, and taught writing at the Roosevelt Island Cultural Center for five years. In 1992, she completed a master's degree at Hunter College in Theater History.
[edit] Radio show
WBAI, an FM radio station in New York City, invited Al Lewis to create a show with Ingenthron co-producing. In 2003, Lewis was too ill to do his show and she took over as the host. In 2006 she received the Sarah Clarke Human Rights Award.
[edit] Filmography
- Lou Grant episode "Censored" (1980) as Irene Teel
- Alabama's Ghost (1973)
- Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973) as Mariposa
