Years active 1984–present Name Karen Akers Spouse Kevin Power (m. 1993) | Website Official website Role Actress | |
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Full Name Karen Orth-Pallavicini Born October 13, 1945 (age 79) ( 1945-10-13 ) New York City, New York, U.S. Alma mater Manhattanville CollegeHunter College Movies Heartburn, Karen Akers: On Stage at Wolf Trap Albums Under Paris Skies, Simply Styne, If We Only Have Love Parents Mary Orth-Pallavicini, Heinrick C. Orth-Pallavicini Similar People Liliane Montevecchi, Andrea Marcovicci, Maury Yeston, Tommy Tune, Anita Morris | ||
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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.
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- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Partial discography
- Songs
- Filmography
- References
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Early life
She 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 Pallavicino who dropped his title when he came to America. Her American-born mother, Mary Louise (nee Adams), a chaplain, 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. Akers graduated from Manhattanville College.
Career
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 Raul Julia). 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.
In 1985 Karen 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.
Personal life
On September 19, 1993, Karen married Kevin Patrick Power, vice president of the satellite communications company Orion Network Systems, in a Roman Catholic ceremony at St. Paul's Chapel Columbia University in New York. It was her second marriage. She has two sons from her first marriage to Jim Akers in 1968, which ended in divorce.
Partial discography
Songs
Song for Old Lovers
My Husband Makes Movies
Marieke
Met a Man Today
The Picture in the Hall
In a Very Unusual Way
Non - je ne regrette rien
The Rose
Fun to Be Fooled / How Little We Know
If We Only Have Love
Strom - Torch Song II
Feels Like Home
Like It Was
Unusual Way
Whatever Happened to Melody
Sooner or Later
You Can Have the TV
Falling in Love Again/ What'll I Do
I'm Not Afraid
Just Imagine / You're Nearer
Be on Your Own
Stars And The Moon
Send in the Clowns
I Don't Remember Christmas
Rush - Torch Song III
Newt - Torch Song I
Ricorda / You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
It's Time for a Love Song / E l'a che fa amare?
Laughing Matters
Long Ago / Nine
Night - Make My Day
How Can I Tell Her?