Nancy Allen
Born
June 24, 1950 (75 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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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RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop
Self · (4 episodes)
2023

In Search of Tomorrow
Self - Interviewee
2022

In Search of Darkness: Part II
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2020

The Movies That Made Us
Self · (1 episode)
2019

Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'
Self
2017

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
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2016
Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out'
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2012

Bound by Flesh
Voiceover
2012

My Apocalypse
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2008

John Travolta: The Inside Story
Self
2004

The Curse of Poltergeist
2002

Circuit
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2001

Acting 'Carrie'
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2001

The Making of 'Dressed to Kill'
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2001

The Division
Christine Ogden · (1 episode)
2001

Slashing 'Dressed to Kill'
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2001

Kiss Toledo Goodbye
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1999

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
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1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Carin Healy · (1 episode)
1999

Secret of the Andes
Brenda Willings
1999

Out of Sight
Midge
1998

The Pass
Shirley Duprey
1998

Against the Law
Maggie Hewitt
1997

Dusting Cliff 7
Anna Bishop
1997

E! True Hollywood Story
(1 episode)
1996

The Outer Limits
Rachel Rose · (1 episode)
1995

Touched by an Angel
Megan · (1 episode)
1994

The Patriots
Catherine Pelman
1994

The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Jessie Gallardo
1994

Acting on Impulse
Cathy Thomas
1993

RoboCop 3
Anne Lewis
1993

The Commish
(1 episode)
1991

Memories of Murder
Alice
1990

RoboCop 2
Officer Anne Lewis
1990

Limit Up
Casey Falls
1989

Poltergeist III
Patricia Wilson-Gardner
1988

RoboCop
Officer Anne Lewis
1987

Sweet Revenge
Jillian Grey
1987

The Gladiator
Susan Neville
1986

Not for Publication
Lois
1984

Terror in the Aisles
Self - Host
1984

The Philadelphia Experiment
Allison Hayes
1984

The Buddy System
Carrie
1984

The Princess and the Pea
Princess Elizabeth
1984

Strange Invaders
Betty Walker
1983

Faerie Tale Theatre
Princess Elizabeth · (1 episode)
1982

Blow Out
Sally Badina
1981

Dressed to Kill
Liz Blake
1980

Home Movies
Kristina
1980

1941
Donna Stratton
1979

I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Pam Mitchell
1978

Carrie
Chris Hargenson
1976

Forced Entry
Hitch Hiker
1975

The Last Detail
Nancy
1973