---
name: "Karen Moncrieff"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/karen-moncrieff"
fi1m_id: "karen-moncrieff"
imdb_id: "nm0597673"
tmdb_id: 74638
wikidata_id: "Q457410"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "20 December 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:37:49.821858+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 Moncrieff

## Identity

Karen Moncrieff

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/karen-moncrieff
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** karen-moncrieff
- **IMDb ID:** nm0597673
- **TMDB ID:** 74638
- **Wikidata ID:** Q457410
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Moncrieff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457410, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0597673/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74638

Director. Born 20 December 1963 in Sacramento, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 20 December 1963, Sacramento, California, USA
- **Also known as:** Karen Moncreiff, Karen Monerieff
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Moncrieff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457410, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0597673/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74638

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Six Feet Under*](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md) (86)

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## Biography

Karen Moncrieff is an American director, screenwriter and former actress. Born on 20 December 1963 in Sacramento, California, she studied performance at Northwestern University before beginning her career as an actress in daytime soap operas, including roles in *Days of Our Lives* and *Santa Barbara*. In 1985 she was crowned Miss Illinois and competed in the Miss America pageant.

After completing a film studies certificate at Los Angeles City College, Moncrieff received the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting in 1998. Her feature directorial debut was *Blue Car* (2002), which she also wrote. Subsequent credits include directing and writing *The Dead Girl* (2006) and *The Trials of Cate McCall* (2013), as well as episodes of television series such as *Six Feet Under* (2003) and *13 Reasons Why* (2017–2018).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Six Feet Under* (2001), Fi1m 86, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

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

- *Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story* (2019), Director
- *The Girl in the Bathtub* (2018), Screenplay, Director
- *The Keeping Hours* (2017), Director
- *13 Reasons Why* (2017), series, Director
- *Petals on the Wind* (2014), Director
- *The Trials of Cate McCall* (2013), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Dead Girl* (2006), Director, Writer
- *Blue Car* (2003), Director, Writer
- *Six Feet Under* (2001), series, Director — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md)
- *The Adventures of Young Brave* (1999), as Miriam
- *Xtro 3: Watch the Skies* (1995), as J.G. Watkins
- *Nowhere Man* (1995), series, as Pam Peterson
- *Unhappily Ever After* (1995), series, as Zelda
- *Russian Roulette - Moscow 95* (1995), Actor
- *Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss* (1993), as Mimi Hoyle
- *Diagnosis: Murder* (1993), series, as Dr. Claire Hartman, Deb Lange
- *Rage* (1993), as Sarah Dameron
- *Midnight Witness* (1993), as Katy
- *Renegade* (1992), series, as Cynthia Mainard
- *Wings* (1990), series, as Deidre
- *Matlock* (1986), series, as Miss Eberhardt
- *Santa Barbara* (1984), series, as Cassandra Benedict
- *Miss America* (1954), series, as Miss Illinois 1985

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