Nancy Thompson

Nancy Thompson is a fictional character from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series of horror films. Played by Heather Langenkamp, she is the protagonist, Freddy's arch-nemesis, and final girl of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street film, and reappears in the third, and to some extent the seventh. She also appears in a comic book series based on the films. The franchise focuses on Freddy Krueger, a supernatural serial killer who uses dreams to mu... more

Nancy Thompson is a fictional character from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series of horror films. Played by Heather Langenkamp, she is the protagonist, Freddy's arch-nemesis, and final girl of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street film, and reappears in the third, and to some extent the seventh. She also appears in a comic book series based on the films. The franchise focuses on Freddy Krueger, a supernatural serial killer who uses dreams to murder the children of the people who burned him alive as an act of vengeance. Nancy is one of these children, and the films depict her struggle to survive her dreams and defeat the killer. In the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, Nancy is a teenage girl who has begun experiencing nightmares about a mysterious, disfigured man in a red and green sweater. The man has "knives for fingers", which he scrapes along objects in the dream. She learns that her friend Tina is having similar nightmares; Tina is murdered in her sleep later that night. Tina... less