Nancy Allen

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Nancy Anne Allen (born June 24, 1950) is a retired American actress.

She rose to prominence in several films directed by Brian De Palma in the 1970s and early 1980s.

She has received a Golden Globe Award nomination as well as three Saturn Award nominations. Allen, the daughter of a New York City police officer, was born in the Bronx and attended the High School of Performing Arts, aspiring to pursue a career as a dancer.

She shifted her attention to acting in the early twenties and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career there.

In Brian De Palma's film version of Carrie (1976), Chris Hargensen was her first major role.

Allen was then starring in Robert Zemeckis-directed comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), as well as a supporting role in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) film. Allen married De Palma in 1979, and her subsequent role as a call girl witnessing a murder in his film Dressed to Kill (1980) earned her a Golden Globe award for New Star of the Year.

She appeared in Blow Out (1981), a neo-noir film starring a woman accused of assassination in a deposition.

Allen and De Palma divorced in 1984, and she appeared in the science fiction films Strange Invaders (1983) and The Philadelphia Experiment (1984), as well as Abel Ferrara's television film The Gladiator (1986).

Allen rose to fame in his role in Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop (1987), a role she reprised in the two sequels that followed.

Poltergeist III (1988), Limit Up (1990), and Les patriotes (1994). Allen retired from acting in 2008 and became involved in anti-cancer activism after her sister, Wendie Jo Sperber, died of breast cancer.

In 2010, she was appointed executive director of the weSPARK Cancer Support Center in Los Angeles, which was founded by Sperber.

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Life and career

Allen was born in New York City's Bronx borough, the youngest of three children of Eugene and Florence Allen. Her father was a police lieutenant. Allen was born on 196th Street in the Bronx's Pelham Bay neighborhood.

Allen was a shy child, so her mother took her to dance lessons when she was four years old. She attended the Academy of Mount St. Ursula in the Bronx before the family moved to Yonkers. She studied at the High School of Performing Arts for one year, where she trained for a dancing career. She said that her participation in dance "ruined it" for her as it "became all about grades." I discovered that although I loved dancing, it wasn't my life. She enrolled at Jose Quintano's School for Young Professionals later that year.

In The Last Detail (1973), directed by Hal Ashby, Allen's first big film role was as Nancy, Jack Nicholson's anxious date. This led her to relocate to Los Angeles to continue her acting career. Allen started struggling to find acting jobs, but an agent told Allen that "it was over for her" because she was 25 years old. However, she auditioned for the role of the spoiled and famous mean girl Christine Hargensen in director Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976) opposite Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, and John Travolta as the title character's chief nemesis. She was officially cast after a lengthy casting process (in which Allen was practically re-cast at the request of the producers), and she was officially introduced.

Allen debuted in Pam Mitchell's film I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), director Robert Zemeckis' first feature film. Donna Stratton appeared in the Spielberg-directed comedy 1941 (1979), opposite Tim Matheson, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and John Candy.

She married director Brian De Palma on January 12, 1979, and over the next few years appeared in three of his films: Kristina (1980) with Kirk Douglas, followed by her portrayal of prostitute Liz Blake in the horror film Dressed to Kill (1980). She had been nominated for a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for her appearance. She appeared in her last film together with De Palma (1981), playing a woman in a deaffective assassination portrayed by a sound engineer. She had to fight a lifelong fear of being trapped in a submerged vehicle flooded with water for filming Blow Out.

Allen appeared in Strange Invaders, written by Bill Condon and co-starring Paul LeMat and Michael Lerner in 1983.

In 1984, De Palma and Sherry divorced. Two of Allen's films were released in the same year, The Buddy System opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Susan Sarandon, and The Philadelphia Experiment opposite Michael Paré. Allen was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress for her role in the latter. Allen began dating Paré right away after the show. Terror in the Aisles (1984), which also includes clips from various horror films, including Dressed to Kill and Carrie, was hosted by Shephet. Not for Publication and Sweet Revenge by Paul Bartel, an action caper against white slavery starring Gina Gershon and Martin Landau, will follow.

Anne Lewis was the police officer in the science fiction/action film RoboCop (1987) opposite Peter Weller in the title role. The film, which was debuted at the Hollywood premiere of Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, did very well at the box office. Allen was selected for yet another Saturn Award for Best Actress.

Allen appeared in Abel Ferrara's The Gladiator (1987) and as Patricia Wilson-Gardner in Poltergeist III (1988), opposite Tom Skerritt, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Heather O'Rourke, who died before production was completed, after RoboCop's success. Allen recalled her role as Officer Lewis in RoboCop 2 (1990) alongside Weller. She studied martial arts and participated in police preparation to make her character more pronounced and more involved in the physical activity. She recalled RoboCop 2 as unpleasant, but later referred to director Irvin Kershner as a "miserable human being." Richard Martini's Limit Up was released in the same year as Allen top-lined Richard Martini's Limit Up. Casey Falls, Allen, a commodities trader, displayed her comedic abilities. Danitra Vance and blues icon Ray Charles appeared in the lighthearted romp. Allen had the honour of appearing in the first-ever original film made for the Lifetime television network, The Memories of Murder.

Craig Shoemaker was born in 1989. Allen appeared in RoboCop 3 (1993) for the third time, and he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. She worked to soften the character's typically stern-as-nails demeanor by doing your work: "You do your job and you become more confident with yourself." Therefore, you don't have to prove yourself to anyone or otherwise deny your womanhood. (It's) not a dirty word. It's actually a blessing. "I wanted to show her that I wanted to show -- to loosen her up in this manner." Allen appeared on Impulse with Linda Fiorentino last year. In 1994, she and Shoemaker divorced.

Allen has appeared in a number of documentaries about her most well-known films, including Dressed to Kill, Carrie, Blow Out, the RoboCop trilogy, and Poltergeist III.

In 1994, she re-teamed with Strange Invaders writer Bill Condon to appear as psychic Jessie Gallardo opposite Roger Moore in the week's film The Man Who Wouldn't Die. She appeared in Les patriotes, a French drama film (1994). She appeared in a Broadway production of Dial M For Murder by Frederick Knott, which had been the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name. Inspector Hubbard appeared as John James in this series, as Tony Wendice, Nancy Allen as Margot and Roddy McDowall. It was launched from September 26, 1995, to March 10, 1996, and was directed by Edward Hastings. Linda Savage appeared on Quality Time in 1997, but the film was not released until 2008 due in large part to post-production and renamed My Apocalypse. In June 1998, she and builder/contractor Randy Bailey were married.

Allen appeared in Midge's (2000) crime thriller Out of Sight (1998), starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, which was directed by Steven Soderbergh, Allen had a small but important role as Midge. Rachel Colby appeared in Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return and Madge in the comedy-thriller Kiss Toledo Goodbye with Christopher Walken (both released in 1999). In 2000, The Secret of the Andes, a family film starring David Keith and Jerry Stiller, was released.

Touched by an Angel, The Outer Limits, The Commish, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit are among her television appearances.

Allen and Bailey separated in 2005 and divorced in 2007. In 2008, she decided to shift her attention to cancer patients and their families. After her friend and former co-star Wendie Jo Sperber died of breast cancer in 2005, she was prompted to refocus her attention on the topic. Allen was named executive director of the weSPARK Cancer Support Center in December 2010, which was established by Sperber prior to her death. Allen said, "I do what I do" in the case of weSpark. My life is dedicated to this. I'm there, I'm running it. I've designed the whole program and I fundraise. "It's my life's work."

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