Nancy Allen
Gender: Female
Born: 24th June 1950 (currently 61 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Another Life
Movies: Blow Out, Carrie, Dressed to Kill, RoboCop, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, The Philadelphia Experiment, Poltergeist III, RoboCop 3, Terror in the Aisles, Strange Invaders, 1941, The Last Detail, Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return, Circuit, RoboCop 2, Home Movies, Against the Law, Not for Publication, Last Assassins, The Buddy System, Quality Time, Maximum Overdrive, Kiss Toledo Goodbye, Out of Sight, Secret of the Andes, Sweet Revenge, Memories of Murder, The Man Who Wouldn't Die, The Patriots, Last Assassins, Acting on Impulse
Nancy Anne Allen (born June 24, 1950) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress and cancer activist.
Allen began an acting and modelling career as a child, and from the mid-1970s appeared in small film roles, most notably the anchor of Robert Zemeckis's ensemble comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978). A pivotal supporting role in Carrie (1976) brought her recognition, and after marrying the director Brian De Palma, she appeared in several of his films, including Dressed to Kill (1980) and Blow Out (1981). Her subsequent films include Strange Invaders (1983), The Philadelphia Experiment (1984), Poltergeist III (1988), Limit Up (1990), Out of Sight (1998), and the RoboCop trilogy.
She was born in New York City, the youngest of three children of Eugene and Florence Allen. Her father was a police lieutenant in Yonkers, where she was raised.
Allen was very shy as a child, so her mother enrolled her in dance classes at age 4. She attended the High School of Performing Arts, where she trained for a dancing career, and then attended Jose Quintano's School for Young Professionals.
Allen's first major film role was very small, playing Nancy, Jack Nicholson's nervous date, in The Last Detail
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