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person_profile-Nancy Allen

Nancy Allen Age: 74

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Nancy Allen

Date of Birth:

Jun 24, 1950

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Nancy Allen

Found 41 Movies in total

In Search of Tomorrow

Self - Interviewee ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2020

... 2016

Bound by Flesh

Voiceover ( Actor )

... 2012

My Apocalypse

Linda Savage ( Actor )

... 2008

... 2004

Circuit

Louise ( Actor )

... 2001

... 2001

Acting 'Carrie'

Self ( Actor )

... 2001

Kiss Toledo Goodbye

Madge ( Actor )

... 1999

... 1999

Secret of the Andes

Brenda Willings ( Actor )

... 1999

Out of Sight

Midge ( Actor )

... 1998

The Pass

Shirley Duprey ( Actor )

... 1998

Against the Law

Maggie Hewitt ( Actor )

... 1997

Dusting Cliff 7

Anna Bishop ( Actor )

... 1997

The Patriots

Catherine Pelman ( Actor )

... 1994

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

Jessie Gallardo ( Actor )

... 1994

Acting on Impulse

Cathy Thomas ( Actor )

... 1993

RoboCop 3

Anne Lewis ( Actor )

... 1993

Memories of Murder

Alice ( Actor )

... 1990

RoboCop 2

Officer Anne Lewis ( Actor )

... 1990

Limit Up

Casey Falls ( Actor )

... 1989

Poltergeist III

Patricia Wilson-Gardner ( Actor )

... 1988

RoboCop

Officer Anne Lewis ( Actor )

... 1987

Sweet Revenge

Jillian Grey ( Actor )

... 1987

The Gladiator

Susan Neville ( Actor )

... 1986

Not for Publication

Lois ( Actor )

... 1984

Terror in the Aisles

Self - Host ( Actor )

... 1984

The Philadelphia Experiment

Allison Hayes ( Actor )

... 1984

The Buddy System

Carrie ( Actor )

... 1984

The Princess and the Pea

Princess Elizabeth ( Actor )

... 1984

Strange Invaders

Betty Walker ( Actor )

... 1983

Blow Out

Sally Badina ( Actor )

... 1981

Dressed to Kill

Liz Blake ( Actor )

... 1980

Home Movies

Kristina ( Actor )

... 1980

1941

Donna Stratton ( Actor )

... 1979

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Pam Mitchell ( Actor )

... 1978

Carrie

Christine Hargenson ( Actor )

... 1976

Forced Entry

Hitch Hiker ( Actor )

... 1975

The Last Detail

Nancy ( Actor )

... 1973