Karen Sillas

Karen Sillas is an American stage and film actress. Born in Brooklyn to a Greek father and Swedish mother, Sillas graduated from the Acting Conservatory of the State University of New York at Purchase. She gained recognition for her roles in films like Hal Hartley's Simple Men (1992) and What Happened Was... (1994), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Sillas made her mark in primetime television as Rose Phillips, the only female detective in CBS's critically acclaimed detective series Under Suspicion. Recently, she appeared in a virtual interview alongside Tom Noonan discussing the re-release of What Happened Was... on Film Forum's YouTube channel.