Nancy Allen
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 24, 1950 (age 76)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Nancy Anne Allen (born June 24, 1950) is an American actress. She came to prominence for her performances in several films directed by Brian De Palma in the 1970s and early 1980s. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award nomination and three Saturn Award nominations. The daughter of a New York City police lieutenant, Allen was raised in the Bronx, and attended the High School of Performing Arts, aspiring to have a career as a dancer. In her early twenties, she shifted her focus to acting and relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career there. Her first major role was as Chris Hargensen in Brian De Palma's film adaptation of Carrie (1976). Allen was subsequently cast as the lead in the Robert Zemeckis-directed comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), followed by a supporting part in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979). Allen married De Palma in 1979, and her subsequent portrayal of a prostitute who witnesses a murder in his feature Dressed to Kill (1980) earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. She then appeared in De Palma's neo-noir film Blow Out (1981), playing a woman implicated in an assassination. Allen and De Palma divorced in 1984. She appeared in the science fiction films Strange Invaders (1983) and The Philadelphia Experiment (1984), and Abel Ferrara's television film The Gladiator (1986). Allen garnered mainstream fame playing Anne Lewis in Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop (1987), a role she reprised for the two sequels that followed. Other credits include Poltergeist III (1988), Limit Up (1990), and Les patriotes (1994). Allen stepped back from acting in 2008, and became involved in cancer support after her friend, Wendie Jo Sperber, died of breast cancer. In 2010, she was named executive director of the weSPARK Cancer Support Center in Los Angeles, which was founded by Sperber. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nancy Allen (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop
TV · as Self · 4 eps
In Search of Tomorrow
Movie · as Self - Interviewee
In Search of Darkness: Part II
Movie · as Self
The Movies That Made Us
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'
Movie · as Self
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
Movie · as Self
More Acting 'Carrie'
Movie · as Self
Bound by Flesh
Movie · as Voiceover
Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out'
Movie · as herself
My Apocalypse
Movie · as Linda Savage
John Travolta: The Inside Story
Movie · as Self
The Curse of Poltergeist
Movie
Slashing 'Dressed to Kill'
Movie · as Self
Acting 'Carrie'
Movie · as Self
The Making of 'Dressed to Kill'
Movie · as Self
Circuit
Movie · as Louise
The Division
TV · as Christine Ogden · 1 ep
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
Movie · as Rachel Colby
Secret of the Andes
Movie · as Brenda Willings
Kiss Toledo Goodbye
Movie · as Madge
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV · as Carin Healy · 1 ep
Out of Sight
Movie · as Midge
The Pass
Movie · as Shirley Duprey
Dusting Cliff 7
Movie · as Anna Bishop
Against the Law
Movie · as Maggie Hewitt
E! True Hollywood Story
TV · 1 ep
Valerie 23
Movie · as Rachel Rose
The Outer Limits
TV · as Rachel Rose · 1 ep
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Movie · as Jessie Gallardo
The Patriots
Movie · as Catherine Pelman
Touched by an Angel
TV · as Megan · 1 ep
RoboCop 3
Movie · as Anne Lewis
Acting on Impulse
Movie · as Cathy Thomas
The Commish
TV · 1 ep
RoboCop 2
Movie · as Officer Anne Lewis
Memories of Murder
Movie · as Alice
Limit Up
Movie · as Casey Falls
Poltergeist III
Movie · as Patricia Wilson-Gardner
RoboCop
Movie · as Officer Anne Lewis
Sweet Revenge
Movie · as Jillian Grey
The Gladiator
Movie · as Susan Neville
The Philadelphia Experiment
Movie · as Allison Hayes
The Buddy System
Movie · as Carrie
Terror in the Aisles
Movie · as Self - Host
Not for Publication
Movie · as Lois
The Princess and the Pea
Movie · as Princess Elizabeth
Strange Invaders
Movie · as Betty Walker
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV · as Princess Elizabeth · 1 ep
Blow Out
Movie · as Sally Badina
Dressed to Kill
Movie · as Liz Blake
Home Movies
Movie · as Kristina
1941
Movie · as Donna Stratton
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Movie · as Pam Mitchell
Carrie
Movie · as Chris Hargenson
Forced Entry
Movie · as Hitch Hiker
The Last Detail
Movie · as Nancy