Name
Nancy Allen
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1950-06-24 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
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 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.
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- 1998 Out of Sight as Midge
- 1984 The Philadelphia Experiment as Allison Hayes
- 1988 Poltergeist III as Patricia Wilson-Gardner
- 2001 Slashing 'Dressed to Kill' as Self
- 1980 Dressed to Kill as Liz Blake
- 1987 RoboCop as Officer Anne Lewis
- 1990 RoboCop 2 as Officer Anne Lewis
- 1993 RoboCop 3 as Anne Lewis
- 1979 1941 as Donna Stratton
- 1993 Acting on Impulse as Cathy Thomas
- 1997 Dusting Cliff 7 as Anna Bishop
- 1976 Carrie as Chris Hargenson
- 1980 Home Movies as Kristina
- 1981 Blow Out as Sally Badina
- 2001 Acting 'Carrie' as Self
- 1999 Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return as Rachel Colby
- 1973 The Last Detail as Nancy
- 1984 The Buddy System as Carrie
- 1999 Secret of the Andes as Brenda Willings
- 1983 Strange Invaders as Betty Walker
- 1984 Terror in the Aisles as Self - Host
- 1999 Kiss Toledo Goodbye as Madge
- 1997 Against the Law as Maggie Hewitt
- 1978 I Wanna Hold Your Hand as Pam Mitchell
- 1984 Not for Publication as Lois
- 1987 Sweet Revenge as Jillian Grey
- 1994 The Man Who Wouldn't Die as Jessie Gallardo
- 1998 The Pass as Shirley Duprey
- 2004 John Travolta: The Inside Story as Self
- 1989 Limit Up as Casey Falls
- 1975 Forced Entry as Hitch Hiker
- 2012 Bound by Flesh as Voiceover
- 2012 Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out' as herself
- 2008 My Apocalypse as Linda Savage
- 1986 The Gladiator as Susan Neville
- 2002 The Curse of Poltergeist
- 2016 Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond as Self
- 2017 Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2' as Self
- 1984 The Princess and the Pea as Princess Elizabeth
- 2001 The Making of 'Dressed to Kill' as Self
- 2001 Circuit as Louise
- 1990 Memories of Murder as Alice
- 1994 The Patriots as Catherine Pelman
- 2022 In Search of Tomorrow as Self - Interviewee
- 2020 In Search of Darkness: Part II as Self
- 1995 Valerie 23 as Rachel Rose
- 2016 More Acting 'Carrie' as Self
- 2001 The Division ( 1 episode ) as Christine Ogden
- 1994 Touched by an Angel ( 1 episode ) as Megan
- 1996 E! True Hollywood Story ( 1 episode )
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1 episode ) as Carin Healy
- 1991 The Commish ( 1 episode )
- 1982 Faerie Tale Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Princess Elizabeth
- 1995 The Outer Limits ( 1 episode ) as Rachel Rose
- 2019 The Movies That Made Us ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2023 RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop ( 4 episodes ) as Self
