posted 10-15-2006 07:11 AM                  

...cerebral hemmorage...

Born on June 24th of 1950, Nancy was the daughter of a Sergeant from Yonkers, New York. At a young age she trained for a dancing career at the High School of Performing Arts, and then attended Jose Quintano's School for Young Professionals. In dozens of TV commercials from the age of 15, Nancy made her first film appearance in 1962, at the age of 12 in a movie named _Money In My Pocket (1962)_ . Later, she appeared in 1973 in the movie The Last Detail (1973) with Jack Nicholson. Three years later, she set the standard for all future "bitch-goddess teenagers" as Chris Hargensen in Stephen King´s Carrie (1976), taken to the big screen by director Brian De Palma. Nancy Allen then married De Palma. She next appeared in Steven Spielberg's I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978); for the next few years, she appeared only in De Palma's films: _Home Movies (1979)_ , Dressed to Kill (1980), and she starred with John Travolta in Blow Out (1981).

After her divorce from De Palma in 1984, Nancy's film opportunities were supposedly narrowed, but then she surprised the whole world in 1987 when she performed as Officer Anne Lewis in the Sci-Fi cult film RoboCop, along with Peter Weller. Here she set another standard as a tough but at the same time feminine policewoman, whose sex wouldn't interfere with her actions. After the success of RoboCop, she performed as Patricia Gardner in the second sequel in the saga of Poltergeist. She came back in RoboCop2 1990 and in order to get more involved with the character Nancy Allen learned martial arts and police training for real. She returned again in RoboCop3 in 1993, though her co-star Peter Weller didn't this time. In 1993, Nancy Allen joined several other veteran stars in Acting on Impulse, Also, she married actor Craig Shoemaker, in the same year (he has a small role in that movie). A few years later she divorced Craig and some time after she married again. Lately she has appeared in some diverse films: Dusting Cliff 7 (1997) Secret of the Andes (1998), Circuit (2001), and she had a guest appearance in Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight in 1998. Her last performance was for the TV show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in the Episode "Escape" aired on December 2nd, 2003. Allen has recently appeared in several documentaries about her most famous films: Acting Carrie (2001) DVD BackStory: RoboCop(2001) TV Dressed to Kill (2000) DVD ET True Hollywood Stories: The Curse of Poltergeist (2002) TV.

posted 10-15-2006 02:12 PM                  

Very pretty girl and as A/C said...much too young.

Loved her in the movie "1941" with John Belushi, John Candy, Dan Akroyd and several other great actors.

posted 10-20-2006 11:12 AM                  

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Originally posted by jmcant1:
Wow. I liked her... she was also in Philadelphia Experiment, a time travel movie.

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posted 10-20-2006 03:14 PM                  

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Originally posted by DanMan:
Been looking around on the web...No info found on her death?

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No kidding!!!

posted 10-20-2006 05:44 PM                  

2006 false death report

Nancy Allen was briefly announced as dead on the website IMDb on October 15th, 2006, the cause of death being cerebral hemorrhage. She denied the info herself via the website's message board.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Allen_%28actress%29

posted 10-21-2006 10:58 AM                  

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Originally posted by tangled up in BLUE:
...glad the report was false

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Me too!

posted 10-21-2006 11:24 AM                  

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Originally posted by TooHipCat:
Me too!

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posted 10-22-2006 02:46 AM                  

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Originally posted by tangled up in BLUE:
...I found the info on Variety and IMDB.....both reported the death....now neither of them has anything posted at all....has the Lucid Eye been scammed again ???

...this happened a few months ago on someone I posted an obit on....they came back to life too

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