Karen Lynn Gorney was born on January 28, 1945, in Beverly Hills, California, to Sondra Gorney, and her Russian born father, Jay Gorney, who had already made his mark on the music business with his composition of the music for what many consider the definitive song about America's Great Depression, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" recorded in 1932 by Bing Crosby.

Karen Lynn attended both Carnegie Mellon University and Brandeis University where she earned her degrees.

Karen Lynn’s first big break into acting came with her roles as Tara Martin in the soap opera All My Children, which over the years has also starred Kelly Ripa and Sarah Michelle Gellar. After taking a break from the show, she was eventually fired but was soon on her way back up again when she was offered the role of Stephanie in the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever. She was cast as the love interest, and eventual dance partner, of John Travolta in the blockbuster disco movie that took the dance scene by storm on both sides of the Atlantic and gave major hits to the Bee Gees, Yvonne Elleman, and Tavares.

After her starring role in Saturday Night Fever Karen all but disappeared from the movie and TV scene to follow her other passion, painting and art. However in July 1983, she did appear nude in Oui magazine.

Having spent two decades out of the limelight, Karen Lynn began making a come back into the movie and TV industry with small roles in The Hard Way, Ripe, and Rock the Cradle. She even made a return to All My Children during 1995, playing cameo roles. In the 1990s and after the millennium she appeared in several television series including, Law and Order, which also stars Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargity; in The Sopranos, in which she plays the character of Judy and stars alongside James Gandolfini; and Six Degrees, with Kevin Bacon.

In the mid 2000s Karen Lynn began concentrating her acting talents in off Broadway shows and independent TV films. After having starred in what was arguably the all time greatest disco/dance movie, Saturday Night Fever, it was only fitting that she should become a co-host on shows and documentaries highlighting the disco era of the 1970s, including Get Down Tonight, When Disco ruled the World and Disco Explosion, in which she danced with the original choreographer of the routines in the movie Saturday Night Fever, Deney Terrio. Together they brought back to life all the moves performed on that famous colored glass dance floor in 1970s Brooklyn, New York, as they moved to "More than a Woman."

Karen Lynn continued to relive those heady disco days when she was interviewed for the disco video documentary, Disco: Spinning The Story. In Madonna’s video, "Hung Up," accompanying her hit song of the same title, she is dancing in the style created by Karen Lynn in Saturday Night Fever as homage to Karen’s character in the movie.

In the last few years Karen Lynn has wrapped up her performances on six films, including Therapy; Creating Karma; George; A Crime, with Harvey Keitel; 100 Years of Evil; and Liars and Lunatics.

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