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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 24, 1950
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Nancy Anne Allen
- The Scream Queen
- نانسی آلن
Nancy Allen
1.1 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.7
Self
RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop
2023
6.6
Self - Interviewee
In Search of Tomorrow
2022
7.7
Self
In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020
7.2
Self
The Movies That Made Us
2019
7.0
Self
Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'
2017
6.9
Self
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
2016
🎬
7.0
herself
Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out'
2012
5.9
Voiceover
Bound by Flesh
2012
4.8
Linda Savage
My Apocalypse
2008
8.0
Self
John Travolta: The Inside Story
2004
Credits
RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop
as Self
2023
7.7
In Search of Tomorrow
as Self - Interviewee
2022
6.6
In Search of Darkness: Part II
as Self
2020
7.7
The Movies That Made Us
as Self
2019
7.2
Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'
as Self
2017
7.0
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
as Self
2016
6.9
🎬
Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out'
as herself
2012
7.0
Bound by Flesh
as Voiceover
2012
5.9
My Apocalypse
as Linda Savage
2008
4.8
John Travolta: The Inside Story
as Self
2004
8.0
The Curse of Poltergeist
2002
0.0
Circuit
as Louise
2001
5.5
Acting 'Carrie'
as Self
2001
7.0
The Making of 'Dressed to Kill'
as Self
2001
7.0
The Division
as Christine Ogden
2001
7.1
Slashing 'Dressed to Kill'
as Self
2001
6.5
Kiss Toledo Goodbye
as Madge
1999
3.0
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
as Rachel Colby
1999
4.5
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Carin Healy
1999
7.9
Secret of the Andes
as Brenda Willings
1999
6.8
Out of Sight
as Midge
1998
6.7
The Pass
as Shirley Duprey
1998
6.8
Against the Law
as Maggie Hewitt
1997
5.0
Dusting Cliff 7
as Anna Bishop
1997
4.6
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
Valerie 23
as Rachel Rose
1995
0.0
The Outer Limits
as Rachel Rose
1995
7.7
Touched by an Angel
as Megan
1994
7.2
The Patriots
as Catherine Pelman
1994
6.6
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
as Jessie Gallardo
1994
5.0
Acting on Impulse
as Cathy Thomas
1993
3.8
RoboCop 3
as Anne Lewis
1993
4.9
The Commish
1991
7.1
Memories of Murder
as Alice
1990
6.1
RoboCop 2
as Officer Anne Lewis
1990
6.0
Limit Up
as Casey Falls
1989
3.7
Poltergeist III
as Patricia Wilson-Gardner
1988
5.2
RoboCop
as Officer Anne Lewis
1987
7.4
Sweet Revenge
as Jillian Grey
1987
3.3
The Gladiator
as Susan Neville
1986
5.9
Not for Publication
as Lois
1984
4.3
Terror in the Aisles
as Self - Host
1984
6.1
The Philadelphia Experiment
as Allison Hayes
1984
6.1
The Buddy System
as Carrie
1984
4.5
The Princess and the Pea
as Princess Elizabeth
1984
7.7
Strange Invaders
as Betty Walker
1983
4.8
Faerie Tale Theatre
as Princess Elizabeth
1982
8.1
Blow Out
as Sally Badina
1981
7.4
Dressed to Kill
as Liz Blake
1980
7.0
Home Movies
as Kristina
1980
5.6
1941
as Donna Stratton
1979
5.8
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
as Pam Mitchell
1978
6.3
Carrie
as Chris Hargenson
1976
7.3
Forced Entry
as Hitch Hiker
1975
4.2
The Last Detail
as Nancy
1973
7.0