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.
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.
External links
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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q283328
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Filmography (Movies)
In Search of Tomorrow
Character:Self - Interviewee
Release Date:19/02/2022
In Search of Darkness: Part II
Character:Self
Release Date:06/10/2020
Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'
Character:Self
Release Date:21/03/2017
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
Character:Self
Release Date:13/05/2016
Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out'
Character:herself
Release Date:21/11/2012
Bound by Flesh
Character:Voiceover
Release Date:19/10/2012
My Apocalypse
Character:Linda Savage
Release Date:21/03/2008
John Travolta: The Inside Story
Character:Self
Release Date:22/04/2004
The Curse of Poltergeist
Character:
Release Date:19/10/2002
Circuit
Character:Louise
Release Date:13/10/2001
Acting 'Carrie'
Character:Self
Release Date:28/08/2001
The Making of 'Dressed to Kill'
Character:Self
Release Date:28/08/2001
Slashing 'Dressed to Kill'
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2001
Kiss Toledo Goodbye
Character:Madge
Release Date:22/11/1999
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
Character:Rachel Colby
Release Date:19/10/1999
Secret of the Andes
Character:Brenda Willings
Release Date:15/07/1999
Out of Sight
Character:Midge
Release Date:26/06/1998
The Pass
Character:Shirley Duprey
Release Date:07/05/1998
Against the Law
Character:Maggie Hewitt
Release Date:17/11/1997
Dusting Cliff 7
Character:Anna Bishop
Release Date:24/06/1997
Valerie 23
Character:Rachel Rose
Release Date:31/03/1995
The Patriots
Character:Catherine Pelman
Release Date:18/05/1994
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Character:Jessie Gallardo
Release Date:22/04/1994
Acting on Impulse
Character:Cathy Thomas
Release Date:10/07/1993
RoboCop 3
Character:Anne Lewis
Release Date:21/01/1993
Memories of Murder
Character:Alice
Release Date:31/07/1990
RoboCop 2
Character:Officer Anne Lewis
Release Date:22/06/1990
Limit Up
Character:Casey Falls
Release Date:02/11/1989
Poltergeist III
Character:Patricia Wilson-Gardner
Release Date:10/06/1988
RoboCop
Character:Officer Anne Lewis
Release Date:17/07/1987
Sweet Revenge
Character:Jillian Grey
Release Date:06/02/1987
The Gladiator
Character:Susan Neville
Release Date:03/02/1986
Not for Publication
Character:Lois
Release Date:01/11/1984
Terror in the Aisles
Character:Self - Host
Release Date:26/10/1984
The Philadelphia Experiment
Character:Allison Hayes
Release Date:05/10/1984
The Buddy System
Character:Carrie
Release Date:04/05/1984
The Princess and the Pea
Character:Princess Elizabeth
Release Date:16/04/1984
Strange Invaders
Character:Betty Walker
Release Date:16/09/1983
Blow Out
Character:Sally Badina
Release Date:24/07/1981
Dressed to Kill
Character:Liz Blake
Release Date:25/07/1980
Home Movies
Character:Kristina
Release Date:16/05/1980
1941
Character:Donna Stratton
Release Date:14/12/1979
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Character:Pam Mitchell
Release Date:01/04/1978
Carrie
Character:Chris Hargenson
Release Date:03/11/1976
Forced Entry
Character:Hitch Hiker
Release Date:10/10/1975
The Last Detail
Character:Nancy
Release Date:11/12/1973
Television Appearances
RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop
Character:Self
The Movies That Made Us
Character:Self
The Division
Character:Christine Ogden
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character:Carin Healy
E! True Hollywood Story
Character:
The Outer Limits
Character:Rachel Rose
Touched by an Angel
Character:Megan
The Commish
Character:
Faerie Tale Theatre
Character:Princess Elizabeth
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