---
name: "Karen Duffy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/karen-duffy"
fi1m_id: "karen-duffy"
imdb_id: "nm0240565"
tmdb_id: 76131
wikidata_id: "Q6369611"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 May 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T23:17:05.772321+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Karen Duffy

## Identity

Karen Duffy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/karen-duffy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** karen-duffy
- **IMDb ID:** nm0240565
- **TMDB ID:** 76131
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6369611
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Duffy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6369611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0240565/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/76131

Actor. Born 23 May 1962 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 May 1962, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1994–2009
- **Also known as:** Karen T. Duffy
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 acting, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 69 (2), 2000s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Duffy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6369611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0240565/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/76131

## Biography

Karen Duffy, also known as Duff, is an American actress, model and television personality. Born on 23 May 1962 in New York City, she studied recreational therapy at the University of Colorado Boulder before beginning her career in modelling and television commercials in the late 1980s.

She gained prominence as an MTV video jockey in the early 1990s. Her film roles include J.P. Shay in *Dumb and Dumber* (1994), Shay Stanley in *Blank Check* (1994), and the voice of Linda Otter in *Fantastic Mr. Fox* (2009). She has also appeared in *Malcolm X* (1992), *Reality Bites* (1994) and *Celebrity* (1998).

Duffy has written books about living with neurosarcoidosis, diagnosed in 1995, and has worked as a correspondent for Michael Moore's television programmes.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (2) — the average rests on these

- *Fantastic Mr. Fox* (2009), Fi1m 84, as Linda Otter (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-mr-fox.md)
- *Dumb and Dumber* (1994), Fi1m 76, as J.P. Shay — [page](https://film.one/film/dumb-and-dumber.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Last Action Hero* (1993), Fi1m 62, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/last-action-hero.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Greatest Beer Run Ever* (2022), Associate Producer
- *Fantastic Mr. Fox* (2009), as Linda Otter (voice) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-mr-fox.md)
- *Marmalade* (2004), as Karen
- *The 24 Hour Woman* (1999), as Margo Lynn
- *Celebrity* (1998), as TV Reporter at Premiere
- *Pepper Ann* (1997), series, as Sketch (voice)
- *Meet Wally Sparks* (1997), as Reporter #3
- *Fool's Paradise* (1997), as DJ
- *The Big Easy* (1996), series, as Wanda Fallon
- *Memory Run* (1995), as Celeste / Josette
- *Dumb and Dumber* (1994), as J.P. Shay — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/dumb-and-dumber.md)
- *Reality Bites* (1994), as Actress 'Elaina'
- *Blank Check* (1994), as Shay Stanley
- *Who's the Man?* (1993), as Officer Day
- *Malcolm X* (1992), as Sophia’s Friend — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/malcolm-x.md)
- *29th Street* (1991), as Maria Rios
- *McBain* (1991), as Crack Den Girl

## Gallery

- ![American actress Karen Duffy walking on the Croisette. Cannes, France, July 2021.](https://film.one/media/person/85081/gallery-ed483f840c13.jpg) American actress Karen Duffy walking on the Croisette. Cannes, France, July 2021. — Franck Michel from Antibes, France, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Cannes_Film_Festival_2021_-1_-_Karen_Duffy_%2851311560150%29.jpg/1280px-Cannes_Film_Festival_2021_-1_-_Karen_Duffy_%2851311560150%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![American actress Karen Duffy walking on the Croisette. Cannes, France, July 2021.](https://film.one/media/person/85081/gallery-820859392a0e.jpg) American actress Karen Duffy walking on the Croisette. Cannes, France, July 2021. — Franck Michel from Antibes, France, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Cannes_Film_Festival_2021_-1_-_Karen_Duffy_%2851311560150%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Cannes_Film_Festival_2021_-1_-_Karen_Duffy_%2851311560150%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Karen Duffy](https://film.one/media/person/85081/gallery-3836c979f0d3.jpg) Karen Duffy — Franck Michel from Antibes, France, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Cannes_Film_Festival_2021_-1_-_Karen_Duffy_%2851311560150%29_%28cropped%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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