Nancy Allen

Nancy Allen

Birthday: 1950-06-24

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Also known as: Nancy Anne Allen, The Scream Queen, نانسی آلن

imdb_id: nm0000262

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.

Played in movies:

John Travolta: The Inside Story

Score: 8.0

In Search of Darkness: Part II

Score: 7.7

The Princess and the Pea

Score: 7.7

Blow Out

Score: 7.4

RoboCop

Score: 7.3

Carrie

Score: 7.3

The Last Detail

Score: 7.0

The Making of 'Dressed to Kill'

Score: 7.0

Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'

Score: 7.0

Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out'

Score: 7.0

Acting 'Carrie'

Score: 7.0

Dressed to Kill

Score: 7.0

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

Score: 6.9

Secret of the Andes

Score: 6.8

Out of Sight

Score: 6.7

The Patriots

Score: 6.6

In Search of Tomorrow

Score: 6.5

Slashing 'Dressed to Kill'

Score: 6.5

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Score: 6.3

Terror in the Aisles

Score: 6.2

The Philadelphia Experiment

Score: 6.1

RoboCop 2

Score: 6.0

The Pass

Score: 6.0

Bound by Flesh

Score: 5.9

The Gladiator

Score: 5.8

1941

Score: 5.8

Circuit

Score: 5.7

Memories of Murder

Score: 5.7

Home Movies

Score: 5.4

Poltergeist III

Score: 5.2

Against the Law

Score: 5.2

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

Score: 5.0

RoboCop 3

Score: 4.9

Strange Invaders

Score: 4.8

My Apocalypse

Score: 4.8

The Buddy System

Score: 4.7

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return

Score: 4.6

Not for Publication

Score: 4.5

Sweet Revenge

Score: 4.3

Forced Entry

Score: 4.2

Dusting Cliff 7

Score: 4.2

Kiss Toledo Goodbye

Score: 3.7

Acting on Impulse

Score: 3.5

Limit Up

Score: 3.0

The Curse of Poltergeist

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Faerie Tale Theatre

Score: 8.1

E! True Hollywood Story

Score: 8.1

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Score: 7.9

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.7

RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop

Score: 7.5

Touched by an Angel

Score: 7.2

The Movies That Made Us

Score: 7.2

The Commish

Score: 7.1

The Division

Score: 7.0