Nancy Allen
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 DePalma 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop as Self
- 2022 · In Search of Tomorrow as Self - Interviewee
- 2020 · In Search of Darkness: Part II as Self
- 2019 · The Movies That Made Us as Self
- 2017 · Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2' as herself
- 2016 · Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond as Self
- 2012 · Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out' as herself
- 2012 · Bound by Flesh as Voiceover
- 2008 · My Apocalypse as Linda Savage
- 2004 · John Travolta: The Inside Story as Self
- 2002 · The Curse of Poltergeist as
- 2001 · Circuit as Louise
- 2001 · The Making of 'Dressed to Kill' as Self
- 2001 · Acting 'Carrie' as Self
- 2001 · The Division as
- 2001 · Slashing 'Dressed to Kill' as Self
- 1999 · Kiss Toledo Goodbye as Madge
- 1999 · Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return as Rachel Colby
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Carin Healy
- 1999 · Secret of the Andes as Brenda Willings
- 1998 · Out of Sight as Midge
- 1998 · The Pass as Shirley Duprey
- 1997 · Against the Law as Maggie Hewitt
- 1997 · Dusting Cliff 7 as Anna Bishop
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as
- 1995 · The Outer Limits as Rachel Rose
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Megan
- 1994 · The Patriots as Catherine Pelman
- 1994 · The Man Who Wouldn't Die as Jessie Gallardo
- 1993 · Acting on Impulse as Cathy Thomas
- 1993 · RoboCop 3 as Anne Lewis
- 1991 · The Commish as
- 1990 · Memories of Murder as Alice
- 1990 · RoboCop 2 as Officer Anne Lewis
- 1989 · Limit Up as Casey Falls
- 1988 · Poltergeist III as Patricia Wilson-Gardner
- 1987 · RoboCop as Officer Anne Lewis
- 1987 · Sweet Revenge as Jillian Grey
- 1986 · The Gladiator as Susan Neville
- 1984 · Not for Publication as Lois
- 1984 · Terror in the Aisles as Self - Host
- 1984 · The Philadelphia Experiment as Allison Hayes
- 1984 · The Buddy System as Carrie
- 1984 · The Princess and the Pea as Princess Elizabeth
- 1983 · Strange Invaders as Betty Walker
- 1982 · Faerie Tale Theatre as Princess Elizabeth
- 1981 · Blow Out as Sally Badina
- 1980 · Dressed to Kill as Liz Blake
- 1980 · Home Movies as Kristina
- 1979 · 1941 as Donna Stratton
- 1978 · I Wanna Hold Your Hand as Pam Mitchell
- 1976 · Carrie as Chris Hargenson
- 1975 · Forced Entry as Hitch Hiker
- 1973 · The Last Detail as Nancy