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Nancy Allen
Nancy Allen
76 years (Jun 24, 1950)
New York City, New York, USA
30 Movies
4 TV Shows

Nancy Allen

Born in New York City in 1950, Nancy Allen broke through as the malicious classmate Chris Hargensen in Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976), then kept working with him on Dressed to Kill (1980) and Blow Out (1981) opposite John Travolta. She reached wider audiences as Officer Anne Lewis in RoboCop (1987) and its two sequels, holding her own next to Peter Weller's cyborg cop. Warm, quick and unfussy on screen, she brought toughness to genre pictures without ever hardening. Her career is still one of the essential threads of American cinema in the seventies and eighties.
Born in New York City in 1950, Nancy Allen broke through as the malicious classmate Chris Hargensen in Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976), then kept working with him on Dressed to Kill (1980) and Blow Out (1981) opposite John Travolta. She reached wider audiences as Officer Anne Lewis in RoboCop (1987) and its two sequels, holding her own next to Peter Weller's cyborg cop. Warm, quick and unfussy on screen, she brought toughness to genre pictures without ever hardening. Her career is still one of the essential threads of American cinema in the seventies and eighties.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How old is Nancy Allen and where are they from?
Nancy Allen is 76 years old, born on June 24, 1950 in New York City, New York, USA.
What are the most famous roles of Nancy Allen?
Nancy Allen is best known for roles in RoboCop, Carrie, RoboCop 2.
How many movies has Nancy Allen been in?
Over a 53-year career (since 1973), Nancy Allen has appeared in 30 movies and 4 TV shows.
What was Nancy Allen's first movie?
The career of Nancy Allen began with The Last Detail (1973).
What is Nancy Allen's most recent movie or series?
Nancy Allen's most recent release is RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop, which premiered on August 28, 2023.
What TV shows has Nancy Allen appeared in?
On television, Nancy Allen has appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Outer Limits, Touched by an Angel, The Movies That Made Us.
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Nancy Allen
Nancy Allen
1950-06-24 · New York City, New York, USA

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.

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