1950-06-24 ( 74 years old ) in 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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Movies
In Search of Tomorrow
2022-02-19
In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020-10-06
Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'
2017-03-21
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
2016-05-13
Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out'
2012-11-21
Bound by Flesh
2012-10-19
My Apocalypse
2008-03-21
John Travolta: The Inside Story
2004-04-22
The Curse of Poltergeist
2002-10-19
Circuit
2001-10-13
Acting 'Carrie'
2001-08-28
The Making of 'Dressed to Kill'
2001-08-28
Slashing 'Dressed to Kill'
2001-01-01
Kiss Toledo Goodbye
1999-11-22
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
1999-10-19
Secret of the Andes
1999-07-15
Out of Sight
1998-06-26
The Pass
1998-05-07
Against the Law
1997-11-17
Dusting Cliff 7
1997-06-24
The Patriots
1994-05-18
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1994-04-22
Acting on Impulse
1993-07-10
RoboCop 3
1993-01-21
Memories of Murder
1990-07-31
RoboCop 2
1990-06-22
Limit Up
1989-11-02
Poltergeist III
1988-06-10
RoboCop
1987-07-17
Sweet Revenge
1987-02-06
The Gladiator
1986-02-03
Not for Publication
1984-11-01
Terror in the Aisles
1984-10-26
The Philadelphia Experiment
1984-10-05
The Buddy System
1984-05-04
The Princess and the Pea
1984-04-16
Strange Invaders
1983-09-16
Blow Out
1981-07-24
Dressed to Kill
1980-07-25
Home Movies
1980-05-16
1941
1979-12-14
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1978-04-01
Carrie
1976-11-03
Forced Entry
1975-10-10
The Last Detail
1973-12-11
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