Karen Young was born in Pequannock, New Jersey, and educated at Rutgers University. She was the eldest of six children; her mother was a homemaker and her father was a stonemason. After college, she went to New York City to pursue a career in acting and has been a New Yorker ever since. One of her first successes was in the original theatrical ...
I always had in the back of my mind that, rightly or wrongly, I expected to work more when I was older because I had not, in fact, become a star in my 20s or 30s. I still feel I've only gotten better as an actress. I knew that if I just hung in there, I could really have a shot. I just didn't know where it would come from. There's a security in slogging on in that you don't have the time or wherewithal to say, 'Oh, poor me.' I always felt that if I plugged along, I knew my breaks would come.
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Has two children, a son and daughter, from her former marriage to Tom Noonan.
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Appears with her ex-husband, Tom Noonan, in the movie The Wife (1995), for which he was also the writer.
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