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Nancy Allen
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Nancy Allen
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1950-06-24,New York City, New York, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nancy Allen (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

6.7

Out of Sight
1998-06-26

The Philadelphia Experiment

6.1

The Philadelphia Experiment
1984-10-05

Poltergeist III

5.2

Poltergeist III
1988-06-10

Slashing 'Dressed to Kill'

6.5

Slashing 'Dressed to Kill'
2001-01-01

Dressed to Kill

6.955

Dressed to Kill
1980-07-25

7.3

RoboCop
1987-07-17

6

RoboCop 2
1990-06-22

4.8

RoboCop 3
1993-01-21

5.8

1941
1979-12-14

Acting on Impulse

3.5

Acting on Impulse
1993-07-10

Dusting Cliff 7

4.2

Dusting Cliff 7
1997-06-24

7.3

Carrie
1976-11-03

5.4

Home Movies
1980-05-16

7.4

Blow Out
1981-07-24

Acting 'Carrie'

7

Acting 'Carrie'
2001-08-28

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return

4.6

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
1999-10-19

The Last Detail

7

The Last Detail
1973-12-11

The Buddy System

4.7

The Buddy System
1984-05-04

Secret of the Andes

6.8

Secret of the Andes
1999-07-15

Strange Invaders

4.8

Strange Invaders
1983-09-16

Terror in the Aisles

6.2

Terror in the Aisles
1984-10-26

Kiss Toledo Goodbye

3.7

Kiss Toledo Goodbye
1999-11-22

Against the Law

5.2

Against the Law
1997-11-17

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

6.3

I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1978-04-01

Not for Publication

4.5

Not for Publication
1984-11-01

4.3

Sweet Revenge
1987-02-06

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

5

The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1994-04-22

6

The Pass
1998-05-07

John Travolta: The Inside Story

8

John Travolta: The Inside Story
2004-04-22

3

Limit Up
1989-11-02

4.2

Forced Entry
1975-10-10

5.9

Bound by Flesh
2012-10-19

Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out'

7

Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out'
2012-11-21

4.8

My Apocalypse
2008-03-21

5.8

The Gladiator
1986-02-03

The Curse of Poltergeist

0

The Curse of Poltergeist
2002-10-19

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

6.9

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
2016-05-13

Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'

7

Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'
2017-03-21

The Princess and the Pea

7.7

The Princess and the Pea
1984-04-16

The Making of 'Dressed to Kill'

7

The Making of 'Dressed to Kill'
2001-08-28

5.7

Circuit
2001-10-13

Memories of Murder

5.7

Memories of Murder
1990-07-31

6.6

The Patriots
1994-05-18

In Search of Tomorrow

6.5

In Search of Tomorrow
2022-02-19

In Search of Darkness: Part II

7.8

In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020-10-06

7

The Division
2001-01-07

Touched by an Angel

7.2

Touched by an Angel
1994-09-21

E! True Hollywood Story

8.092

E! True Hollywood Story
1996-08-21

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

7.9

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999-09-20

7.125

The Commish
1991-09-28

Faerie Tale Theatre

8.2

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982-09-11

The Outer Limits

7.7

The Outer Limits
1995-03-26

The Movies That Made Us

7.183

The Movies That Made Us
2019-11-29

RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop

8.6

RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop
2023-08-28