Karen Lynn Gorney (born January , ) is an American actress, known for
playing roles in various television shows and films including the soap
opera All My Children and the movie Saturday Night Fever.Gorney was
born in Beverly Hills, California. She is the daughter of Sondra Karyl
(Kattlove)[citation needed], a public relations consultant, and Jay
Gorney, who was born in Białystok, Poland and was a composer who
wrote the music for the song about America's Great Depression,
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Her family is Jewish. She earned a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a
Master of Fine Arts from Brandeis University. Karen is the sister of
Daniel Gorney, and half-sister of author, professor, and physician
Roderic Gorney, who has taught for many years at UCLA.Gorney made her
film debut as a teenage resident of a mental health treatment center
in David and Lisa (). Her next work on the big screen came in with
the film The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart'. From to , Gorney
played the role of Tara Martin on the soap opera All My Children.
After she left the show, Gorney had agreed to return when her
replacement, actress/writer Stephanie Braxton, decided to leave the
show. She returned for the â€" season but was eventually fired as Tara
and did not return to the show until almost years later.In , Gorney
co-starred in her third film, and biggest role to date, as Stephanie
Mangano in Saturday Night Fever, alongside John Travolta. The next
year, she appeared as a celebrity panelist on Hollywood Squares.
playing roles in various television shows and films including the soap
opera All My Children and the movie Saturday Night Fever.Gorney was
born in Beverly Hills, California. She is the daughter of Sondra Karyl
(Kattlove)[citation needed], a public relations consultant, and Jay
Gorney, who was born in Białystok, Poland and was a composer who
wrote the music for the song about America's Great Depression,
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Her family is Jewish. She earned a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a
Master of Fine Arts from Brandeis University. Karen is the sister of
Daniel Gorney, and half-sister of author, professor, and physician
Roderic Gorney, who has taught for many years at UCLA.Gorney made her
film debut as a teenage resident of a mental health treatment center
in David and Lisa (). Her next work on the big screen came in with
the film The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart'. From to , Gorney
played the role of Tara Martin on the soap opera All My Children.
After she left the show, Gorney had agreed to return when her
replacement, actress/writer Stephanie Braxton, decided to leave the
show. She returned for the â€" season but was eventually fired as Tara
and did not return to the show until almost years later.In , Gorney
co-starred in her third film, and biggest role to date, as Stephanie
Mangano in Saturday Night Fever, alongside John Travolta. The next
year, she appeared as a celebrity panelist on Hollywood Squares.
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