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Karen Akers (born October 13, 1945) is an American actress and singer, who has appeared on Broadway, and in cabaret and film.

Karen Akers
Akers in 1985
Born
Karen Orth-Pallavicini

(1945-10-13) October 13, 1945 (age 77)
New York City, U.S.
Alma materManhattanville College
Hunter College
Years active1982–present
Spouse(s)Jim Akers
(m. 1968–mid-1980s)
Kevin Power
​
​
(m. 1993)​
Children2
Websitekarenakers.com

Early life


Akers was born Karen Orth-Pallavicini in New York City on October 13, 1945. Her immigrant father, Heinnick Christian Orth-Pallavicini, was of Austrian and Swiss-Italian heritage. He was reportedly a member of the European nobility family Pallavicini who dropped his title when he came to America. Her American-born mother, Mary Louise (née Adams), a chaplain,[1] had Russian, Norwegian, and French forebears on one side of her family and Scotch-Irish ones on the other. Her younger sister, Nicole Orth-Pallavicini, is also an actress. Another younger sister, Marie Orth-Pallavicini, is married to David Baker Cadman, a grandson of John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman.[2] Akers graduated from Manhattanville College.


Career


Akers honed her acting skills as an amateur performer, starting in the Arlington (Virginia) Players production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Akers first appeared on Broadway in the original production of Nine, a musical directed by Tommy Tune and based on the Federico Fellini film 8½, as Luisa Contini, the wife of promiscuous film director Guido Contini (played by Raúl Juliá). The show opened May 9, 1982, and had a successful run of 732 performances, closing February 4, 1984. Akers won a Theatre World Award for her performance. She was one of three actresses in the show nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, with the award eventually going to fellow cast member Liliane Montevecchi.

Beginning in 1985, Akers appeared in such feature films as Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (as a celluloid chanteuse), and in Heartburn (as the mistress of Jack Nicholson's character).

She appeared on Broadway in Grand Hotel, a musical adaptation of the novel and film, scored by Robert Wright, George Forrest, and Maury Yeston. In Grand Hotel Akers was reunited with Nine director Tommy Tune and Nine cast members Liliane Motevecchi and Kathi Moss. The show opened November 12, 1989, for a run of 1,018 performances, through April 19, 1992.

Akers covered "Sooner or Later" in her 1991 album Unchained Melodies, a song written for Madonna by Stephen Sondheim the year before.[3]


Personal life


On September 19, 1993, Akers married Kevin Patrick Power, vice president of the satellite communications company Orion Network Systems, in a Roman Catholic ceremony at St. Paul's Chapel of Columbia University in New York.[4]

It was her second marriage. She has two sons from her first marriage to Jim Akers in 1968,[5] which ended in divorce.


Filmography



Film


YearTitleRoleNotes
1985The Purple Rose of CairoKitty HaynesAlso on the soundtrack, uncredited, performing "One Day at a Time".
1986HeartburnThelma Rice
1988VibesHillary(final film role)

Television


YearTitleRoleNotes
1984Hart to HartRaquel MoskowitzTV Series; 1 episode: "Whispers in the Wings"
1985The EqualizerCynthiaTV Series; 1 episode: "China Rain"
1987CheersSallyTV Series; 1 episode: "My Fair Clavin"
1991TodayHerselfTV Series; 1 episode: "Episode dated 5 November 1991"
1983–1997Great PerformancesHerselfTV Series; 2 episodes:
  • "Ellington: The Music Lives On" (1983)
  • "Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall" (1997)

DVD Concert Films



Partial discography



References


  1. "Karen Akers Biography (1945-)".
  2. "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
  3. "Karen Akers "Sooner or Later"". CD Universe. Retrieved May 2, 2009.
  4. "WEDDINGS; Karen Akers, Kevin Power". The New York Times. September 20, 1993. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
  5. Holden, Stephen (October 30, 1981). "THE WORLDLY WISE WORLD OF KAREN AKERS". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
  6. "Karen Akers: On Stage At Wolf Trap". view.com. Retrieved October 20, 2013.



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Karen Akers (* 13. Oktober 1945 in New York City) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Sängerin.
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