Karren Karagulian

Acting

Karren Karagulian

Born 1969-01-01

Karren Karagulian (Armenian: Կարեն Կարագուլյան, romanised: Karen Karagulyan; born 1969) is an Armenian-American actor. He is known primarily for his collaborations with director Sean Baker, with whom he has worked since the early 1990s. In 2024, he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Performance for his role in Anora. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karren Karagulian, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Anora poster
7.1

A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.

Anora

2024

The Florida Project poster
7.4

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

The Florida Project

2017

THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH poster
NR

Eight years after the events of Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood, Cliff Booth returns to a changing Los Angeles. Now working as a fixer in the shadows of the Hollywood studio system, Cliff finds himself entangled in a dangerous web of secrets, crimes and betrayals that will test everything he knows about loyalty and survival.

THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH

2026

Tangerine poster
6.9

It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.

Tangerine

2015

Red Rocket poster
6.8

After hitting rock bottom in Los Angeles, former porn star Mikey Saber returns to his hometown in Texas to stay with his estranged wife and mother-in-law. Just as tensions begin to ease, he becomes infatuated with a young doughnut shop worker named Strawberry.

Red Rocket

2021

Debris poster
4.0

After a disastrous event on his construction site, Armando acts quickly to save his crew, but instead stumbles upon an unspeakable truth.

Debris

2017

Starlet poster
6.8

An unlikely friendship forms between 21 year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at Sadie's yard sale.

Starlet

2012

River of Fundament poster
5.9

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

River of Fundament

2014

No artwork available
NR

After Santa’s magic bag is stolen, he turns to his naughty list to find Vance, a thief, to help him get it back. Along with his daughter, Santa, and a group of misfits, Vance will have to pull off the greatest heist of his life to save Christmas.

The Man with the Bag

2026

No artwork available
NR

A charming jewel thief gives up the good life to help a mysterious woman as they plot a high-stakes score that’s worth a lot more than just money.

Positano

Meet the Hustlers poster
NR

Documentary on "Prince of Broadway"

Meet the Hustlers

2011

Anora: Stripped Down poster
NR

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film Anora (2024) by director Sean Baker.

Anora: Stripped Down

Take Out poster
7.1

An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the money.

Take Out

2008

Merry F*cking Christmas: The Making of Tangerine poster
8.0

A feature-length documentary going behind-the-scenes on the making of the 2015 film Tangerine.

Merry F*cking Christmas: The Making of Tangerine

2022

Prince of Broadway poster
6.7

A New York street hustler specializing in name-brand knock-offs finds his highly profitable game suddenly complicated when his ex-girlfriend shows up toting the son he never knew he had.

Prince of Broadway

2010

No artwork available
NR

A man named Ethan, a retired true-crime podcaster, is forced to dive back into danger when his sister, Emily, mysteriously vanishes.

After

Welcome Home poster
5.5

New York-set comedy about a group of immigrants who have become hostage to their life choices.

Welcome Home

2014

Four Letter Words poster
5.1

At the end of a summer night’s party, the immaturity quotient rises among a group of twenty-something guys as reputations are slurred and, of course, the anticipated drunken brawl ensues.

Four Letter Words

2000

This Land poster
NR

Azat, an Armenian immigrant selling counterfeit designer bags on the streets of Los Angeles, strikes a bond with a woman from his night school only to face the pitfalls of the American Dream.

This Land

2019

Tom's Dilemma poster
6.0

After the molestation of his son, a father struggles with his need to seek revenge and the fear that feeds his inability to do so.

Tom's Dilemma

2016

No artwork available
7.0

An experimental short that explores the complexity of our deepest emotions through the lens of comfort foods.

How to Fill the Unfillable Hole Inside You

2023

Behind the camera