Ally Sheedy
Ally Sheedy was born in New York City, New York, United States on June 13th, 1962 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 62, Ally Sheedy biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Alexandra Elizabeth "Ally" Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American actress and writer.
She made her film debut in 1983's Bad Boys as one of the Brat Pack group of actors in the films The Breakfast Club (1985) and St. Elmo's Fire (1985).
She also appeared in WarGames (1983) and Short Circuit (1986).
Sheedy received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead in Lisa Cholodenko's High Art (1998).
Early life
Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy was born in New York City on June 13, 1962, and she has two siblings, brother Patrick, and sister Meghan. Charlotte (née Baum) is a writer and press agent who was active in women's and civil rights movements, and her father, John J. Sheedy Jr., is a Manhattan advertising executive. Sheedy's mother is Eastern European Jewish, although her father is of Irish Catholic origins. Her maternal grandmother was from Odessa, Ukraine. In 1971, her parents divorced.
She attended the Bank Street School for Children and Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School in New York City, graduating in 1980. She began dancing with the American Ballet Theatre at the age of six and wanted to make it a full time career. However, she gave up dancing in favour of acting full time, and then began learning about acting with actor Harold Guskin. She Was Nice to Mice, a book she wrote at age 12, was published. McGraw-Hill Education published the book, making it a best-seller. On June 19, 1975, she appeared on the game show To Tell the Truth.
Sheedy, an 18-year-old girl, moved to Los Angeles, California, where she enrolled in the University of Southern California's drama department. Sheedy began her acting career while also completing three years' worth of courses toward a BFA degree in acting.
Personal life
Sheedy became a vegetarian at the age of 12.
Richie Sambora, a Bon Jovi guitarist, was dated for less than a year in the 1980s. In Los Angeles Times, she said that the friendship led to heroin use, a charge Sambora denied. Sheedy was admitted to the Hazelden Foundation in 1985 and was treated for a sleeping pill disorder in the 1990s, an experience she recalled as a heroin-addicted photographer in High Art.
Sheedy married David Lansbury, the nephew of actress Angela Lansbury and son of Edgar Lansbury, the original creator of Godspell, on April 12, 1992. They have a son, Beckett, who was born in 1994. Beckett, a trans man from Sheedy's time, says she "learned a lot." Sheedy and Lansbury had filed for divorce in 2008.
Sheedy took the #MeToo hashtag alongside James Franco and Christian Slater's names in January 2018, implying that they had been sexually offensive with her, but later canceled the tweets. Franco denied knowing why Sheedy would have tweeted those allegations.
Career
Sheedy debuted in local theater productions as a youth. She made her television debut in 1981, as well as three episodes of the television series Hill Street Blues, starring Sean Penn, wherein she played Penn's humiliated girlfriend. The 1980s marked her most active decade, with roles in films including WarGames, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, Short Circuit, and Maid to Order.
In the 1998 independent film High Art, Sheedy starred alongside Radha Mitchell, about a marriage between two women and the power of art. The Independent Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics all recognized her achievement in High Art.
Sheedy took over the lead role in the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch's off-Broadway production in 1999. According to E!, she was the first cis-gender female to play for Hedwig, but her campaign came to an end early in the "mixed" research. News from the New York Times. She was cast as a lead actress in Sugar Town, an independent film starring an ensemble cast of actors and musicians the previous year.
In the second season of "Playing God," she was reunited with Breakfast Club co-star Anthony Michael Hall.
Sheedy appeared in "Leapin' Lizards" of C.S.I., in which she played a woman who murdered her boyfriend's wife when mixed up in a cult. Sheedy was introduced as Sarah in the ABC Family show Kyle XY on March 3, 2008. In 2009, she appeared as Mr. Yang on the USA Network television show Psych (in the third season finale), a role she reprised in the fourth season, fifth season, and seventh season finales.