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My Take
What stays with me about Karen Valentine is that her Emmy-winning moment came from playing an idealistic young schoolteacher on Room 222, not some flashy leading role. There is something quietly radical about a small-town girl from Sebastopol, California earning industry-wide respect by radiating warmth and decency on screen. I tend to value performers like her, the ones who make sincerity feel effortless, over louder stars who burn bright and fade. Her early-70s recognition feels like a snapshot of an America that wanted its idealism back, and she embodied it beautifully. That kind of grounded charm ages far better than spectacle ever does.
Overview
Karen Valentine (born May 25, 1947) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as young idealistic schoolteacher Alice Johnson in the ABC comedy drama series Room 222 from 1969 to 1974, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1970, and received a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1971.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Karen Valentine
- Name (Japanese)
- カレン・バレンタイン
- Reading
- かれん・ばれんたいん
- Born
- May 25, 1947 (age 79)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Boar
- Origin
- Sebastopol, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / film actor / stage actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Analy High School
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1970 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.