
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.
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/nm0000262
Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q283328
Facebook: https://facebook.com/nancy.allen.56829
Instagram: No data
X: No data

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

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