Karen Krizanovich is a writer, radio and TV broadcaster, American voiceover artist and presenter based in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Her written work has been published in The Times, Reader’s Digest, The Sunday Times Style, Red, The Independent, The Telegraph, GQ, The Guardian Film Blog, Elle UK, T3, The Daily Mail on relationships and social mores, Esquire and Cosmopolitan among many others. Recent radio and TV broadcasts include BBC1 Breakfast News, ITV’s ‘This Morning’, BBC Radio 4′s ‘Woman’s Hour’, BBCR4′s ‘The Film Programme’, LBC Radio, Monocle International Radio and BBC2′s ‘The Review Show’. Karen has appeared on over 75 different TV shows, including CNN and Newsnight, with live outside broadcasts from the Cannes Film Festival; an incomplete list of her broadcast work is online at IMDb. Karen is the presenter/researcher for Whistledown Production/BBC Radio 4‘s groundbreaking ‘Sylvia of Hollywood’, an original radio documentary about Hollywood’s forgotten yet greatest fitness/beauty expert. In late 2011, Karen also presented a look at Helen Gurley Brown’s milestone book Sex & The Single Girl for BBC Radio 4 along with an accompanying article on the BBC News main website and an appearance on BBC Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour.
With a BA and MA in Philosophy of Mind and an MBA in Film Finance, Karen is a script editor, active in development and professional script reporting. She also writes about film, film business, film news and breaking trends – on the page, online and across all broadcast media. She reviews films for Radio Times, Monocle International Radio, Virgin Media, Yahoo and on TV for BBC News Channel’s ‘Film 24′. (Her written reviews, including previous work for Empire and the short-lived FilmStar, are aggregated at Rotten Tomatoes.)
Karen is a member of the exclusive London Film Critics’ Circle, Alliance of Women Film Journalists and is a jury associate for the international film critics’ association FIPRESCI.
A popular host for Q&A sessions and film-related talks, Karen appeared most recently for the London Screenwriters’ Festival, the London Comedy Writers’ Festival, the NFT/BFI, First Light’s Fever Pitch/London Film Festival, the Barbican Cinema and for the Curzon Cinema.
Making her mark in the 90s as Dear Karen, the sarcastic Agony Aunt of Sky Magazine’s must-read comedic advice page, Karen remains a relationship commentator for the media. She is also the author of the comedic life manual Bad Advice.
A trained voice-over artist who specialises in chocolate voices, robot/Vulcan, American regional accents and anything throaty, her voice-reels can be heard here or can be requested from Talking Heads Voices: The Voice Agency +44 (0) 20 7292 7575.
Karen is also an accredited personal trainer.
hi just watching you on news night review , great legs , do you ever come to manchester Uk
mike
24 Feb 12 at 23:33
Why, thank you. I don’t go to Manchester much if at all. My legs like it there, though.
Krizanovich
25 Feb 12 at 21:34
Hi Karen. I too watched News Night Review and (like the cameraman) was unable to take my eyes off your legs. In fact, there were times when I completey lost the thread of the discussion about the Oscars – I kept wondering if you were about to do a Sharon Stone on terrestrial television! Clearly a very sexy lady.
Jim A
26 Feb 12 at 01:28
Super legs Karen, on The Oscars Review Show.
patrick kenny
27 Feb 12 at 18:16
I have to agree with Mike. Those legs even put “Elle MacPherson” into the shade. Please feel free to show them again!
My company often has presenters for our website. Our ratings would go through the roof!
Lee
1 Mar 12 at 20:36
Dear Karen,
Legs have it again on Review show last week, GREAT to view! Good also NOT to have Kirsty “Squawk” doing the programme, she does need voice tarining it has got worse the modulation in my opinion.
Brian Cox seemed to have worked for or was a very personal friend of every film directors film reviewed on the show it was lamenatble.
No one mentioned the fact that Noomi Rapace the Swedish Actress was brilliant in the far superior Danish version of Girl with the Dragon Tatoo compared with the Daniel Craig version? Have you seen the three Danish films Karen?
Very Best wishes to you,
dav_strong@hotmail.com (voice over/actor)
david strong
2 Mar 12 at 12:55
Dear Karen,
Sorry about the “typos” and I believe it was a Swedish Film Trilogy not Danish!
ATB
DS
david strong
2 Mar 12 at 13:01
Hi Karen
I am a mundane regular Newsnight viewer and I do my best to stay awake at that time of the evening to focus on all the latest current affairs interviews. When you recently appeared on the programme I did however find it difficult to keep my concentration ‘on track’. It was constantly distracted by your alluring legs. I am not complaining, but apologising for missing elements of the discussion content. I suppose I am expressing male guilt of ‘judging a book by its cover’. ps I am an avid cinema fan and reading your resume I can see you impressively tick all the other boxes as well. What a talent ! (I am only 30 miles from Manchester)
Another Mike
5 Mar 12 at 18:24
Thank you very much for all the nice words.
Karen
with trousers.
Karen Krizanovich
11 Mar 12 at 15:49
well, i just wander about Your name…
when i was a boy, in our street was a family named Krizanovich, what was rare name in that time…
so, perhaps Your origin is from the our little town…
best wishes
m. vidic
13 Apr 12 at 03:29
Hi,
Wondering if you have any of the Sky magazine advice columns online? Would make me feel nostalgic…
RUSS
27 Apr 12 at 01:53
Yes, I am hoping to scan in some of the old Dear Karen columns and link them in here. I don’t have all of them, though. I never thought to keep them so am compiling now, sort of.
Karen Krizanovich
27 Apr 12 at 04:37