Karen Moncrieff (born December 20, 1963, in

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, California) is an American actress, director and screenwriter. She is best known as the writer and director of critically acclaimed movies ''

Blue Car ''Blue Car'' is a 2002 American drama film directed and written by Karen Moncrieff. It was the first film she directed and wrote. The film stars David Strathairn, Agnes Bruckner, Margaret Colin, and Frances Fisher. ''Blue Car'' had its world pre ...

'' and ''

The Dead Girl ''The Dead Girl'' is a 2006 American drama thriller film written and directed by Karen Moncrieff, starring Brittany Murphy, Toni Collette, Rose Byrne and Marcia Gay Harden. The film was nominated for several 2007 Independent Spirit Awards incl ...

'' ''''. Movies she has directed have won several awards. ''

'' won the Deauville American Film Festival's grand prize in 2007. '' The Keeping Hours'' won the Audience Award for Fiction Feature Film at the L.A. Film Fest in 2017. Her directing credits are in both television and features, and she has acted in the soap operas ''

Passions ''Passions'' is an American television soap opera that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1999, to September 7, 2007, and on DirecTV's The 101 Network from September 17, 2007, to August 7, 2008. Created by screenwriter James E. Reilly and ...

'', '' Days of Our Lives'' and '' Santa Barbara''. In 1985, she was crowned

Miss Illinois The Miss Illinois is a pageant program affiliated with Miss America, which is competition for women models representing the state of Illinois. The first "Miss Illinois" sent to the national pageant was Lois Delander who subsequently won the Mi ...

and competed in the

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pageant. She graduated from Rochester Adams High School in 1982.

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* 1963 births Living people 20th-century American actresses Actresses from Sacramento, California Film producers from California American television actresses American television directors American women film directors Film directors from California Miss America 1980s delegates American women screenwriters American women television directors American women film producers Screenwriters from California 21st-century American women {{US-film-director-1960s-stub