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Heather Langenkamp | |
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 Langenkamp at the Fan Expo Canada in 2014 | |
| Born | Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp[1] July 17, 1964[2] Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Other names | Heather Langenkamp Anderson Heather L. Anderson Heather Anderson |
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| Years active | 1983–present |
| Known for | Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| Spouses | Alan Pasqua
(m. 1984; div. 1987)David LeRoy Anderson
(m. 1989) |
| Children | 2 |
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Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp (born July 17, 1964) is an American actress, writer, director, disc jockey, and producer. Although she has acted in many film genres, she is primarily known for her work in horror films, in addition to her work on television sitcoms. Langenkamp has been referred to as a scream queen and was inducted into the Fangoria Chainsaw Hall of Fame in 1995.
Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, while working for the Tulsa Tribune at the age of 18, she appeared as an extra in the Francis Ford Coppola productions The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983); while attending Stanford University, she played her first leading role in the little-seen Nickel Mountain (1984). Her breakthrough role was as the resourceful 15-year-old heroine Nancy Thompson in Wes Craven's slasher film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)—the first film in the franchise of the same name. She reprised her role as Nancy in the third film and appeared as a fictionalized version of herself in the meta film Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). Langenkamp has worked on two documentary films; executive producing and narrating Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010), which focuses on the making of all of the Nightmare films; and starring in and producing I Am Nancy (2011), which centers on the legacy of Nancy.
Langenkamp has also appeared in the films The Butterfly Room (2012), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021). On television, she has appeared in Growing Pains (1988-1990), Just the Ten of Us (1988-1990), Perversions of Science (1997), and the Mike Flanagan Netflix series The Midnight Club (2022). Since the 2010s, Langenkamp has worked as a disc jockey for the Malibu radio station KBUU-LP, going under the pseudonym Sandy Bottoms.[3] She wrote and directed the short film Washed Away (2019).
Langenkamp's second husband is award-winning makeup artist David LeRoy Anderson. Together they run AFX Studio, where she has worked as a special make-up effects coordinator for films such as Dawn of the Dead (2004), Cinderella Man (2005), Evan Almighty (2007), and The Cabin in the Woods (2012).[4]
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- ^ "Heather Langenkamp". AllMovie. Archived from the original on December 18, 2021. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
- ^ Tallal, Jimy (October 6, 2022). "Malibu's 'Spooky' couple put their talents to work on Netflix". The Malibu Times. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
- ^ "AFX Studio". AFX Studio. Retrieved May 16, 2018.