Marcia Karr

Marcia Karr is an American former actress known for exploitation and horror films of the 1980s. Born in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey, she moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and began in film as Barbara Hershey's body double in The Entity (1981). Her first feature was The Concrete Jungle (1982). Next came a role opposite Linda Blair in Chained Heat (1983), a women-in-prison film. She and Blair co-starred again in Savage Streets (1984). Karr had a lead role in the slasher Killer Workout (1987), playing a fitness spa owner whose business is plagued by murders. She also had a supporting part in Maniac Cop (1988). In 1988 she was casting director on Cheerleader Camp. She retired from acting in the early 1990s.