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Nancy Allen

Nancy Allen

Known For Acting
Birthday Jun 24, 1950 (75)
Birthplace New York City, New York, USA
Popularity 0.9 (history)
Updated Dec 19, 2024
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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 Ci ... ty 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.

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Filmography

Bound by Flesh

Bound by Flesh

2012

as Voiceover

My Apocalypse

My Apocalypse

2008

as Linda Savage

Circuit

Circuit

2001

as Louise

Secret of the Andes

Secret of the Andes

1999

as Brenda Willings

Kiss Toledo Goodbye

Kiss Toledo Goodbye

1999

as Madge

The Pass

The Pass

1998

as Shirley Duprey

Out of Sight

Out of Sight

1998

as Midge

Against the Law

Against the Law

1997

as Maggie Hewitt

Dusting Cliff 7

Dusting Cliff 7

1997

as Anna Bishop

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

1994

as Jessie Gallardo

RoboCop 3

RoboCop 3

1993

as Anne Lewis

Acting on Impulse

Acting on Impulse

1993

as Cathy Thomas

Memories of Murder

Memories of Murder

1990

as Alice

RoboCop 2

RoboCop 2

1990

as Officer Anne Lewis

Limit Up

Limit Up

1989

as Casey Falls

Poltergeist III

Poltergeist III

1988

as Patricia Wilson-Gardner

Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge

1987

as Jillian Grey

RoboCop

RoboCop

1987

as Officer Anne Lewis

The Gladiator

The Gladiator

1986

as Susan Neville

Not for Publication

Not for Publication

1984

as Lois

The Philadelphia Experiment

The Philadelphia Experiment

1984

as Allison Hayes

The Buddy System

The Buddy System

1984

as Carrie

The Princess and the Pea

The Princess and the Pea

1984

as Princess Elizabeth

Strange Invaders

Strange Invaders

1983

as Betty Walker

Blow Out

Blow Out

1981

as Sally Badina

Home Movies

Home Movies

1980

as Kristina

Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill

1980

as Liz Blake

1941

1941

1979

as Donna Stratton

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

1978

as Pam Mitchell

Carrie

Carrie

1976

as Chris Hargenson

Forced Entry

Forced Entry

1975

as Hitch Hiker

The Last Detail

The Last Detail

1973

as Nancy

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Touched by an Angel

as Megan

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1994

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Carin Healy

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 20, 1999

Faerie Tale Theatre

as Princess Elizabeth

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 11, 1982

The Outer Limits

as Rachel Rose

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 26, 1995

RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop

as Self

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Aug 28, 2023

The Division

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 07, 2001

E! True Hollywood Story

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 21, 1996

The Commish

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 28, 1991

The Movies That Made Us

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 29, 2019

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