Karen Moncrieff Explained

Karen Moncrieff
Birth Date:	20 December 1963
Birth Place:	Sacramento, California
Occupation:	Film director, screenwriter, actress

Karen Moncrieff (born December 20, 1963, in Sacramento, California) is an American actress, director and screenwriter.^[1] She is best known as the writer and director of critically acclaimed films Blue Car^{[2] [3] [4]} and The Dead Girl ^{[5] [6]} .

Movies she has directed have won several awards. The Dead Girl won the Deauville American Film Festival's grand prize in 2007.^[7] The Keeping Hours won the Audience Award for Fiction Feature Film at the L.A. Film Fest in 2017.^[8]

Her directing credits are in both television and features, and she has acted in the soap operas Passions, Days of Our Lives and Santa Barbara. In 1985, she was crowned Miss Illinois and competed in the Miss America 1986 pageant. She graduated from Rochester Adams High School in 1982.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Guiding Light	Patricia Murphy
1987	Days of Our Lives	Gabrielle Pascal	Episode #5572
1989	The Bold and the Beautiful	Dr. Michelle Brookner	9 episodes
1990	Matlock	Miss Eberhardt	Episode: "The Witness"
1990-1992	Santa Barbara	Cassandra Benedict	278 episodes
1993	Midnight Witness	Katy
	Rage	Sarah Dameron
	Renegade	Cynthia Mainard	Episode: "No Good Deed"
	Perry Mason	Mimi Hoyle	Episode: "Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss"
	Wings	Deidre	Episode: "Come Fly With Me"
1993-1994	Silk Stalkings	Various roles	2 episodes
1994	Murder Between Friends	Amy Morin
1995	Robin's Hoods	Heather	Episode: "Hell Hath No Fury"
	Nowhere Man	Pam Peterson	Episode: "A Rough Whimper of Insanity"
		J.G. Watkins
	Russian Roulette: Moscow 95	Uncredited
1996-1997	Diagnosis Murder	Dr. Claire Hartman	2 episodes
1997	Unhappily Ever After	Zelda	Episode: "Sternberg"
1998	Mike Hammer, Private Eye	Lucille Banks	Episode: "A Candidate for Murder"
1998	Waking Up Horton	Miriam
1998-2000	Any Day Now	Uncredited	2 episodes
2002	Blue Car	Director and writer	^[9] ^[10] ^[11]
2003	Six Feet Under	Director	Episode "The Opening"
2004	Touching Evil	Director	Episode "Slash 30"
2006	The Dead Girl	Director and Writer	^[12] ^[13]
2013	The Trials of Cate McCall	Director, Writer, and Producer	^[14]
2014	Petals on the Wind	Director
2017	The Keeping Hours	Director	^[15]
2018	The Quad	Director	Episode "Native Son"
	13 Reasons Why	Director	2 episodes
	The Girl in the Bathtub	Director and Writer
2019	Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Big Story	Director
2020	Paradise Lost	Director	2 episodes

Notes and References

1. Web site: Karen Moncrieff . 2023-01-21 . TVGuide.com . en.
2. Web site: Holden . Stephen . May 2, 2003 . Blue Car (2002) FILM REVIEW; Teacher and Prodigy, Along With Need and Lust . The New York Times.
3. Web site: Thompson,AP . Anne . Thompson . Anne . AP . 2007-01-12 . risky business . 2023-01-21 . The Hollywood Reporter . en-US.
4. Web site: 2003-05-01 . She's the driver at last . 2023-01-21 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
5. Web site: Tartaglione . Nancy . 2019-06-03 . Karen Moncrieff To Helm 'Lucky' Based On Alice Sebold Memoir; 'Still Alice's James Brown Producing . 2023-01-21 . Deadline . en-US.
6. Web site: 2006-12-26 . 'Dead Girl' filmmaker's calling is to break hearts . 2023-01-21 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
7. Web site: Leffler,AP . Rebecca . Leffler . Rebecca . AP . 2007-09-10 . 'Dead' rises at Deauville Film Fest . 2023-01-21 . The Hollywood Reporter . en-US.
8. Web site: Evans . Greg . 2017-06-22 . L.A. Film Fest Award Winners: 'Becks', 'The Keeping Hours' Among Honorees – Complete List . 2023-01-21 . Deadline . en-US.
9. News: Holden . Stephen . 2003-05-02 . FILM REVIEW; Teacher and Prodigy, Along With Need and Lust . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-01-21 . 0362-4331.
10. Web site: BBC Two - Blue Car . 2023-01-21 . BBC . en-GB.
11. News: Gates . Anita . 2004-05-02 . MOVIES: CRITIC'S CHOICE . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-01-21 . 0362-4331.
12. The Dead Girl . 2023-01-21 . The New Yorker . en.
13. Web site: Koehler . Robert . 2006-11-09 . The Dead Girl . 2023-01-21 . Variety . en-US.
14. Web site: Fleming . Mike Jr. . 2012-05-16 . Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte Start Work On 'The Trials Of Cate McCall' . 2023-01-21 . Deadline . en-US.
15. Web site: Kit . Borys . 2015-10-14 . Lee Pace and Carrie Coon to Star in Blumhouse Thriller 'The Keeping Hours' (Exclusive) . 2023-01-21 . The Hollywood Reporter . en-US.