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Karen Moncrieff (born December 20, 1963, in Sacramento, California) is an American actress, director and screenwriter. She is best known as the writer and director of critically acclaimed films Blue Car and The Dead Girl .
Movies she has directed have won several awards. The Dead Girl won the Deauville American Film Festival's grand prize in 2007. The Keeping Hours won the Audience Award for Fiction Feature Film at the L.A. Film Fest in 2017.
Her directing credits are in both television and feature film, and she has acted in the soap operas Days of Our Lives and Santa Barbara. In 1985, she was crowned Miss Illinois and competed in the Miss America 1986 pageant. She graduated from Rochester Adams High School in 1982.
| 1986 | Guiding Light | Patricia Murphy | |
| 1987 | Days of Our Lives | Gabrielle Pascal | Episode #5572 |
| 1989 | The Bold and the Beautiful | Dr. Michelle Brookner | 9 episodes |
| 1990 | Matlock | Miss Eberhardt | Episode: "The Witness" |
| 1990–1992 | Santa Barbara | Cassandra Benedict | 278 episodes |
| 1993 | Midnight Witness | Katy | |
| Rage | Sarah Dameron | ||
| Renegade | Cynthia Mainard | Episode: "No Good Deed" | |
| Perry Mason | Mimi Hoyle | Episode: "Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss" | |
| Wings | Deidre | Episode: "Come Fly With Me" | |
| 1993–1994 | Silk Stalkings | Various roles | 2 episodes |
| 1994 | Murder Between Friends | Amy Morin | |
| 1995 | Robin's Hoods | Heather | Episode: "Hell Hath No Fury" |
| Nowhere Man | Pam Peterson | Episode: "A Rough Whimper of Insanity" | |
| J.G. Watkins | |||
| Russian Roulette: Moscow 95 | Uncredited | ||
| 1996–1997 | Diagnosis Murder | Dr. Claire Hartman | 2 episodes |
| 1997 | Unhappily Ever After | Zelda | Episode: "Sternberg" |
| 1998 | Mike Hammer, Private Eye | Lucille Banks | Episode: "A Candidate for Murder" |
| 1998 | Waking Up Horton | Miriam | |
| 1998–2000 | Any Day Now | Uncredited | 2 episodes |
| 2002 | Blue Car | Director and writer | |
| 2003 | Six Feet Under | Director | Episode "The Opening" |
| 2004 | Touching Evil | Director | Episode "Slash 30" |
| 2006 | The Dead Girl | Director and Writer | |
| 2013 | The Trials of Cate McCall | Director, Writer, and Producer | |
| 2014 | Petals on the Wind | Director | |
| 2017 | The Keeping Hours | Director | |
| 2018 | The Quad | Director | Episode "Native Son" |
| 13 Reasons Why | Director | 2 episodes | |
| The Girl in the Bathtub | Director and Writer | ||
| 2019 | Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Big Story | Director | |
| 2020 | Paradise Lost | Director | 2 episodes |
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