Karen SillasFilmography

Born:: June 5, 1965 in Brooklyn, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A favorite player of director Hal Hartley, Karen Sillas has appeared to great effect in a number of his films, notably Trust and Simple Men. Her work in Hartley's films established the blonde, strong-jawed actress as a solid talent with a proclivity for deadpan humor, something she has also...Read More

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On the Edge

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Paul Rudd, Anthony LaPaglia, John Goodman, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: First seen over the Showtime cable network on June 29, 2001, On the Edge is a compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant. The first segment, directed by Helen Mirren, is "Happy Birthday," in which a straight-A student (Sidney Tamilia Poitier) seeks Read More

2001
75 Degrees

Actors: Shirley Knight, William R. Moses, Karen Sillas, Heidi Swedberg, Harris Yulin

Synopsis: The reunion of a dysfunctional Texas family provides the setting for this somber drama from first-time writer/director Hyatt Bass. Letty (Karen Sillas), a successful artist, returns home for the first time in several years. The ostensible purpose of her visit is to attend a posh gallery showing of Read More

2000
As Time Runs Out

Actors: Stephen Collins, Karen Sillas, Rick Roberts, Emmett Shoemaker, Fred Henderson

Synopsis: In this most recent spin on a familiar suspense-movie plot device, the 6-year-old son of wealthy Seattle industrialist Dan Carlin (Stephen Elliott) is kidnapped by a disgruntled ex-employee. Innocently unaware of his plight, the captive boy is locked in a room with his toy teddy bear, which has Read More

1999
Bad Money

Actors: Graham Greene, Karen Sillas, Stephen Spender, Alisen Down, Tamsin Kelsey

Synopsis: Dubbed as a Canadian counterpart to American Beauty (1999), this film satirizes suburban banality. Graham Greene plays a white-bread father who slowly descends into an emotional morass when he gets sacked from his job. Meanwhile, a timid health food restaurateur toys with adding meat to the menu Read More

1999
Reach the Rock

Actors: Bill Sadler, Alessandro Nivola, Bruce Norris, Karen Sillas, Brooke Langton

Synopsis: William Ryan made his directorial debut with this comedy-drama set in the small town of Shermer, Illinois, where vandalism by Robin Fleming (Alessandro Nivola) gets him thrown in jail by the two-man police force -- Sergeant Phil Quinn (William Sadler) and his dim-bulb deputy, Ernie (Bruce Norris). Read More

10/16/98
Sour Grapes

Actors: Steven Weber, Craig Bierko, Matt Keeslar, Karen Sillas, Robyn Peterman

Synopsis: Sitcom veteran Larry David, the co-creator of TV's Seinfeld, made his big-screen directorial debut with this clever comedy featuring distinct Seinfeld overtones. Sour Grapes was released April 17, 1998, only four weeks prior to the last Seinfeld episode. Selma Maxwell (Viola Harris) is the Read More

1998
Touched by an Angel: Vengeance is Mine

Synopsis: This is the first episode of a two-part story, which originally concluded on the Touched by an Angel spinoff series Promised Land. Monica (Roma Downey) and her fellow angels once again pay a visit to the family of Russell Greene (Gerald McRaney), on the one-year anniversary of the traffic accident Read More

1998
Lies He Told

Actors: Gary Cole, Karen Sillas, Ron Lea, Nigel Bennett, Linda Sorenson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Lies He Told is based on one of those true stories that most producers would reject outright as ludicrous and impossible were it offered as fiction. Feeling confined by his marriage to wife Cindy (Teddi Siddall) and his family and military responsibilities, USAF Sgt. Major Davis Read More

1997
Night Sins

Synopsis: Reminiscent of the "best" of David Lynch, the two-part TV movie Night Sins uses a mysterious abduction as catalyst for a progressively bizarre and disturbing expose of small-town corruption, hypocrisy and perversion. When the 8-year-old son of a doctor is kidnapped from his home in the rural Read More

1997
Female Perversions

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Amy Madigan, Karen Sillas, Laila Robins, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: An outwardly successful woman teeters on the brink of emotional collapse in this psychological drama. Evelyn Stevens (Tilda Swinton) is a skilled and well-regarded attorney who is being considered for a prestigious judicial appointment. However, she's plagued by self-doubt and neurotic obsessions Read More

1996
The Beast

Actors: William L. Petersen, Karen Sillas, Larry Drake, Missy Crider, Charles Martin Smith

Synopsis: The fishing industry of a small Northwestern coastal town is nearly destroyed when a mysterious giant sea creature takes up residence. Based on a novel by Peter Benchley, the story bears more than passing resemblance to the author's most popular story, Jaws in that a few, including a scientist Read More

1996
Flirt

Actors: Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Parker Posey, Dwight Ewell, Geno Lechner, Dominik Bender, Miho Nikaido

Synopsis: A lover, an ultimatum, a phone call, and a gun: these elements are found in each segment of Hal Hartley's Flirt, an experimental comedy-drama that essentially repeats the same story three times. But while the basic narrative remains the same -- a congenital flirt must decide whether or not to Read More

1995
Law & Order: Big Bang

Synopsis: A woman is the seemingly random victim of a letter bomb. As the detectives and the D.A.'s office pursue their investigation, it becomes painfully apparent that the killing was no accident of fate. It seems that the dead woman was the estranged wife of scientist Edward Manning (Harris Yulin), and Read More

1994
Risk

Actors: Karen Sillas, David Ilku, Molly Price, Jack Gwaltney

Synopsis: Writer/director Deidre Fishel's debut film is a powerful drama about an artist who enters into a turbulent love affair with a troubled and unpredictable young man. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
What Happened Was...

Actors: Karen Sillas, Tom Noonan

Synopsis: Two vaguely acquainted co-workers meet for a first date. This is the deceptively simple premise of What Happened Was..., the directorial debut of actor and playwright Tom Noonan. Noonan also portrays Michael, a paralegal; Karen Sillas plays Jackie, an executive assistant at the same New York law Read More

1994
Simple Men

Actors: Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn, Mark Chandler Bailey, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: A pair of brothers dodge the law while trying to locate their long-lost father in this third feature from independent New York filmmaker Hal Hartley. Robert John Burke stars as Bill McCabe, a failed computer thief who's just been doublecrossed by his girlfriend and partner. Vowing revenge on the Read More

10/14/92
Liebestraum

Actors: Kevin Anderson, Pam Gidley, Bill Pullman, Kim Novak, Thomas Kopache

Synopsis: Liebestraum is a moody, stylish suspense thriller written and directed by British director Mike Figgis. Nick (Kevin Anderson) is an architectural writer who goes home to be with his dying mother, Mrs. Anderssen (Kim Novak) from whom he was separated as a baby. There he meets an old friend and has Read More

9/13/91
Trust

Actors: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Merritt Nelson, John A. MacKay, Edie Falco

Synopsis: The unlikely relationship between a pregnant high school student and a brooding electronics repairman lies at the center of this droll comedy from writer-director Hal Hartley. Intelligent but unconventional, Maria (Adrienne Shelly) has more to worry about than her pregnancy, as her expectant state Read More

7/26/91