Nancy Allen actress
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- Total known movies 45
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 Palmas 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 Spielbergs 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 Palmas 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 Ferraras television film The Gladiator (1986). Allen garnered mainstream fame playing Anne Lewis in Paul Verhoevens 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.Description above from the Wikipedia article Nancy Allen (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Midge
Movie 1998
Allison Hayes
Movie 1984
Patricia Wilson-Gardner
Movie 1988
Self
Movie 2001
Liz Blake
Movie 1980
Officer Anne Lewis
Movie 1990
Officer Anne Lewis
Movie 1987
Anne Lewis
Movie 1993
Donna Stratton
Movie 1979
Cathy Thomas
Movie 1993
Anna Bishop
Movie 1997
Chris Hargenson
Movie 1976
Kristina
Movie 1980
Sally Badina
Movie 1981
Self
Movie 2001
Rachel Colby
Movie 1999
Nancy
Movie 1973
Carrie
Movie 1984
Brenda Willings
Movie 1999
Self - Host
Movie 1984
Betty Walker
Movie 1983
Madge
Movie 1999
Maggie Hewitt
Movie 1997
Pam Mitchell
Movie 1978
Jessie Gallardo
Movie 1994
Jillian Grey
Movie 1987
Shirley Duprey
Movie 1998
Self
Movie 2004
Hitch Hiker
Movie 1975
Voiceover
Movie 2012
herself
Movie 2012
Linda Savage
Movie 2008
Susan Neville
Movie 1986
Movie 2002
Self
Movie 2016
herself
Movie 2017
Princess Elizabeth
Movie 1984
Self
Movie 2001
Louise
Movie 2001
Alice
Movie 1990
Catherine Pelman
Movie 1994
Self - Interviewee
Movie 2022
Self
Movie 2020
Tv 2001
Megan
Tv 1994
Tv 1996
Carin Healy
Tv 1999
Tv 1991
Princess Elizabeth
Tv 1982
Rachel Rose
Tv 1995
Self
Tv 2019
Self
Tv 2023
