Karen Black was born OnThisDay in 1939 🤍
passed away aged 74, leaving behind her an influential and imaginative trail of over 100 films that helped to redefine the cinema during the 1960s and 70s. With her signature tumbling curls, ski-slope nose, crossed eyes and strong, often crazed female roles, she had a bombshell sex appeal partnered with a dark air of unhinged vulnerability.
Black became a pin up for counterculture cinema of the 1970s and a champion for independent films. “I love playing strong women, even if they’re nuts,” she said. Labelled a “beautiful freak” by the New York Times in 1970, her style had an effortless, bohemian charm representative of the era: glittering mini-dresses and fishnet tights, beatnik hats or her iconic low-buttoned waitress uniform in Five Easy Pieces.
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