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Nancy Allen
ActorBorn June 24, 1950 (75 years)
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.
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
| 2012 | Bound by Flesh · as Voiceover |
| 2008 | My Apocalypse · as Linda Savage |
| 2001 | Circuit · as Louise |
| 2001 | The Division (TV Series) · as Christine Ogden |
| 1999 | Kiss Toledo Goodbye · as Madge |
| 1999 | Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return · as Rachel Colby |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) · as Carin Healy |
| 1998 | 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 | The Making of '1941' · as Donna Stratton |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) |
| 1995 | Coldblooded · as Jillian Grey |
| 1995 | The Outer Limits (1995) (TV Series) · as Rachel Rose |
| 1994 | Touched by an Angel (TV Series) · 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 (TV Series) |
| 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 | The Philadelphia Experiment · as Allison Hayes |
| 1984 | The Buddy System · as Carrie |
| 1983 | Strange Invaders · as Betty Walker |
| 1982 | Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series) · as Princess Elizabeth |
| 1981 | Blow Out · as Sally Badina |
| 1981 | Another Life 1981 (TV Series) · as Paula James (1983-84) |
| 1980 | Dressed to Kill · as Liz Blake |
| 1979 | Home Movies · as Kristina |
| 1979 | 1941 · as Donna Stratton |
| 1978 | I Wanna Hold Your Hand · as Pam Mitchell |
| 1976 | Carrie · as Chris Hargenson |
| 1976 | The Last Victim · as Hitch Hiker |
| 1973 | The Last Detail · as Nancy |