Nancy Anne Allen (born June 24, 1950) is an American actress. Her best-known films are Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out and the RoboCop trilogy.
She was born in New York City, New York, the youngest of three children of Eugene and Florence Allen. Her father was a police lieutenant in Yonkers, where she was raised.
Allen was terribly shy as a child, so her mother enrolled her in dance classes at age 4. She attended the High School of Performing A...
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Nancy Anne Allen (born June 24, 1950) is an American actress. Her best-known films are Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out and the RoboCop trilogy.
She was born in New York City, New York, the youngest of three children of Eugene and Florence Allen. Her father was a police lieutenant in Yonkers, where she was raised.
Allen was terribly shy as a child, so her mother enrolled her in dance classes at age 4. She attended the High School of Performing Arts, where she trained for a dancing career, and then attended Jose Quintano's School for Young Professionals.
Her film debut was at age 12, playing the role as Melissa Dillon in Money in My Pocket (1962), a comedy/drama starring country singer Bill Anderson. From the time she was 15, Allen appeared in a large number of television commercials. She also worked as a model.
Allen's second film role was very small, playing Nancy, Jack Nicholson's nervous date, in The Last Detail (1973). This inspired her to move to Los Angeles, and try for larger...
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