Karen Lynn Gorney

Karen Lynn Gorney
Gorney and Richard Hatch in All My Children, January 1970
Born	(1945-01-28) January 28, 1945 (age 72) Beverly Hills, California, United States
Residence	New York City
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1970–present
Spouse(s)	Ken Golden (divorced) Mark Toback (1995–present)

Karen Lynn Gorney (born January 28, 1945) is an American actress, known for her roles on television and film.

Gorney was born in Beverly Hills, California. She is the daughter of Sondra Karyl (Kattlove) (1918–2015), a public relations consultant, and Jay Gorney (1894–1990), who was born in Białystok, Poland and was a composer who wrote the music for the song about America's Great Depression, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Her family is Jewish. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Fine Arts from Brandeis University. Karen is the sister of author, professor, and physician Rod Gorney, who has taught for many years at UCLA.

Gorney made her film debut as a teenage resident of a mental health treatment center in David and Lisa (1962). Her next work on the big screen came in 1970 with the film "The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart," where she returned to perform a cast. From 1970 to 1974, Gorney played the role of Tara Martin on the soap opera All My Children. After she left the show, Gorney had agreed to return when her replacement, actress/writer Stephanie Braxton, decided to leave the show. She returned for the 1976–77 season but was eventually fired as Tara and did not return to the show until almost 20 years later.

In 1977, Gorney co-starred in her third film, and biggest role to date, as Stephanie Mangano in Saturday Night Fever, alongside John Travolta. The next year, she appeared as a celebrity panelist on Hollywood Squares.