| Karen O | |
|---|---|
 O at the 86th Academy Awards | |
| 1 Nomination | |
| Role | Composer, Singer |
| Born | November 22, 1978 |
| Busan, South Korea | |
Karen O, real name is Karen Lee Orzolek is the lead singer for New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She won Spin Magazine's Sex Goddess Award in both 2004 and 2005. In 2006, she was named one of rock's hottest women by Blender.] In 2007, she placed #3 on Spinner.com's Women Who Rock Right Now. In February 2010, she won a Shockwaves NME Award for the Hottest Woman. O was featured in the track "Cut Me Up" by Har Mar Superstar for the soundtrack to the 2005 horror film House of Wax. In 2007, she contributed vocals to a version of Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" for the I'm Not There movie soundtrack. In May 2011, it was reported that Karen O had collaborated with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on a cover version of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" for the soundtrack to the English-language version of the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, for which Reznor composed the score. Karen O also contributed "The Moon Song" to the 2013 film Her. This marks her second film collaboration with the film's director, Spike Jonze, after she wrote the soundtrack for his 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are.
Nominations[]
- 86th Academy Awards, 2013
- Best Original Song — "The Moon Song" from Her (shared with Spike Jonze)