Karen Lynn Gorney is the romantic star of Saturday Night Fever: the dance partner and fantasy girlfriend who said "no" to John Travolta, and won his heart in this Mega-Hit film, recently released on DVD to raves. Miss Gorney is also the legendary "Tara Martin" (Tad's big sister, Erica's mortal enemy) on ABC's award-winning All My Children. A classically trained Actress, and winner of the People's Choice and European Bravo Awards, Karen holds a BFA from Carngie Mellon and MFA from Brandeis University in Acting and Speech. She has received raves in New York City and throughout the United States performing everything from Shakespeare to Neil Simon. Karen has 5 new films in the can including A Crime with Harvey Keitel, and Searching for Bobby DeNiro with Sandra Bernhard. The daughter of the composer of "Brother Can you Spare a Dime" (Jay Gorney), Karen's new CD of her Dad's hits called Hot Moonlight! is in stores now, and has received international acclaim.



Daughter of American composer Jay Gorney (1896-1990) whose songs include, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", "Moonlight and Pretzels", etc. Her mother is actress/writer Sondra Gorney. Is also a dancer, singer, a composer having recorded in London for EMI and a painter for Cicle Fine Arts and working in art galleries. During the filming of Saturday Night Fever (1977), her favorite food was lettuce and Coca-Cola. Due to her success on Saturday Night Fever (1977), Gorney worked as an acting and dancing teacher at the now defunct Jo Jo's Dance Factory on Broadway at Fifty-fifth from 1980 to 1982.