Karen trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she won the Carleton Hobbs Award.

Recent theatre includes: Mrs. Darling in Peter Pan (Kensington Gardens); Jill Rodale in Ayckbourn’s If I Were You (Mill at Sonning); Artefacts (Bush Theatre and Off Broadway); The Years Between (Orange Tree); The Letter (Wyndhams).

Other theatre includes: for Shared Experience, Anna Karenina, After Mrs. Rochester (Lyric Hammersmith, Tricycle, UK and International Tours); Ivanov, Much Ado About Nothing (Strand Theatre);A Shayna Maidel (Ambassadors); Three Viewings (New End); the jazz-theatre piece Out There (Riverside Studios); Adam Bede, The Case Of Rebellious Susan, The Cassilis Engagement (Orange Tree).

Other favourite theatre: Robert and Elizabeth (Chichester); Love off the Shelf (Nuffield, Southampton);Twelfth Night, Rookery Nook (Colchester); Perfect Days, Extremities (Derby); Loot, Glass Menagerie (Worcester); Taking Steps, Season’s Greetings (Sonning).

Recent television work includes: The Taking of Prince Harry, Casualty, Doctors, Trinity, The Bill, Eastenders, The Armando Iannucci Shows, Kid in the Corner, Armadillo, The Buccaneers.

Film: Paper Mask, Loaf

Karen’s many radio credits include: Dorine in Tartuffe and Miranda in The Tempest, with the late Sir John Gielgud.