Lliam amor biography of nancy allen

All All. Sign In. Nancy Anne Allen. The Scream Queen.

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Her father, Eugene Allen, was a New York police lieutenant. In dozens of television commercials from the age of 15, Nancy made her first film appearance in The Last Detail with Jack Nicholson. Three years later, she furnished the standard for all future bitch-goddess teenagers as Chris Hargensen in Stephen King 's Carrie , taken to the big screen by director Brian De Palma.

Nancy then married De Palma in After her divorce from De Palma in , Nancy's film opportunities were supposedly narrowed, but then she surprised the whole world when she performed as Officer Anne Lewis in the sci-fi cult film RoboCop , along with Peter Weller. Here, she furnished another standard as a tough but at the same time feminine policewoman, whose sex would not interfere with her actions.

She came back in RoboCop 2 and in order to get more involved with her character, Nancy learned martial arts and police training for real. She returned again in RoboCop 3 , though her co-star Peter Weller did not this time.

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In , Nancy joined several other veteran stars in Acting on Impulse , and married co-star Craig Shoemaker , in the same year. A few years later, she divorced Craig and some time after she married again. She later appeared in some diverse films: Dusting Cliff 7 , Secret of the Andes , Circuit , and she had a guest appearance in Steven Soderbergh 's Out of Sight She also hosted Andrew J.

Kuehn 's horror film documentary Terror in the Aisles , along with Donald Pleasence.