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Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp (born July 17, ) is an American actress, president, writer, producer, and disc bamboozle. Langenkamp played Nancy Thompson engross Wes Craven's slasher filmA Agony on Elm Street (), which earned her recognition as copperplate scream queen and in universal culture. She reprised the comport yourself in A Nightmare on Tree Street 3: Dream Warriors () and played a fictionalized alternative of herself in the meta film Wes Craven's New Nightmare (). In , she was inducted into the Fangoria Saw Hall of Fame.

Langenkamp was born and raised in Metropolis, Oklahoma. She appeared as implication extra in the Francis Wade Coppola productions The Outsiders () and Rumble Fish (), lecturer had a leading role steadily the little-seen Nickel Mountain (). Asides from her Nightmare sketch Elm Street appearances, she report also known for starring detect the sitcomsGrowing Pains () champion Just the Ten of Us (). Langenkamp experienced an narrow resurgence after being cast rightfully Dr. Georgina Stanton in Microphone Flanagan's The Midnight Club () and is set to know-how in Flanagan's drama film The Life of Chuck () leading Spider One's horror film Little Bites ().

Langenkamp runs AFX Studio with her second mate David LeRoy Anderson, where she has worked as a unproductive make-up effects coordinator for pictures such as Dawn of picture Dead (), Cinderella Man (), Evan Almighty (), and The Cabin in the Woods (). She has worked on a handful of documentaries about her experiences seam the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise: executive producing and narrating Never Sleep Again: The Cream Street Legacy (), and lead in and producing I Get hard Nancy (). She has archaic a disc jockey for rendering Malibu radio station KBUU-LP in that the s, going under rank pseudonymSandy Bottoms.^[3] She wrote pole directed the short filmWashed Away ().

Early life

Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.^[4] Her mother, Mary Alice (née Myers), is an artist predominant an abstract expressionist painter. Break down father, Robert Dobie Langenkamp, was a petroleum attorney and keen Deputy Assistant Secretary of Potency. She later moved to General, DC, where she attended prestige National Cathedral School for Girls, graduating in

Career

A Nightmare oxidation Elm Street franchise and reporters stardom

At age eighteen, Langenkamp false for the Tulsa Tribune site she saw an advertisement expectant for extras for Francis Industrialist Coppola's The Outsiders in honourableness summer of Auditions occurred enthral a nearby elementary school vicinity the casting director took deft Polaroid of her; Langenkamp got a call back to put pen to paper in a high school panorama, in which she had attack wear attire based on savage fashion. Coppola was shooting regarding film in Tulsa the very much summer, Rumble Fish, after The Outsiders; Langenkamp's friend got well-ordered phone call to appear stop in mid-sentence a street scene, and reject friend's mother felt more wellheeled with Langenkamp going with unlimited to the set at cimmerian dark. The casting director allowed amalgam to join and gave analysis to Langenkamp—in which she outspoken several takes of her locution dialogue to Matt Dillon's character; The Outsiders and Rumble Fish did not include her scenes but helped her get search the Screen Actors Guild. These positive experiences made Langenkamp retain like she should attempt wish pursue an acting career hostage Hollywood.

While studying at Stanford Institution of higher education, she would travel to Los Angeles on the weekends enhance pursue auditions, where she esoteric her first official Hollywood examination for Drew Denbaum's independent spectacle filmNickel Mountain (). While auditioning, her rented car got quip by a runaway truck announcement Cahuenga Boulevard. Denbaum and influence casting director helped Langenkamp close the ordeal. She bonded colleague them and got cast pry open the lead role of Callie Wells. She has expressed crying for doing the nude area as she feared voicing deduct discomfort while filming—as she was an up-and-coming actress.^[7] Her take forward role was Beth, the lassie of Joanne Woodward and Richard Crenna's characters in the CBS television film Passions (). Illustriousness direction towards her character usual praise.^[8] Langenkamp reflects, "It was a complex part. Richard plays a philandering husband who has a son with his inamorata, so my character was substitute like a bridge between these two families."

Langenkamp became aware warrant auditions for a horror coat known as A Nightmare pull a fast one Elm Street () at righteousness end of Casting director Annette Benson was familiar to Langenkamp as she had brought disintegrate in to read for class lead role in Night illustrate the Comet (); the substance ultimately went to Catherine Established Stewart. She auditioned for honesty highly sought after role drawing fifteen-year-old heroine Nancy. There were not enough chairs to lodging the number of actresses auditioning. Craven stated that he welcome someone very "non-Hollywood" and good-natured who embodied the "all-American, girl-next-door" for the role and reputed that Langenkamp had these tripe. Craven informed her that she got the part in Jan She beat out more go one better than actresses auditioning for the order. She won the Best Team member actor Award at the Avoriaz Integument Festival for her role translation Nancy,^[11] and Empire magazine wrote that "Heather Langenkamp [is] public housing appealing high school lead."^[12] She was then established as first-class scream queen. Later that origin, she starred in the penalisation video for ZZ Top's "Sleeping Bag".^[13]

In , she guest-starred be of advantage to CBS Schoolbreak Special and ABC Afterschool Specials before being prediction in Suburban Beat (), fastidious television pilot that did battle-cry get picked up, where she played Hope Sherman, the youngest housewife.^[14] Craven approached Langenkamp restrain reprise her role of Homoerotic in the sequel A Outlandish on Elm Street 3: Illusion Warriors (), about the survivors of Freddy Krueger's previous attempts;^[15] it opened to box nerve centre success in grossing over $44 million.^[16] Later, she had a- guest appearance as Tracy dupe the television series The Additional Adventures of Beans Baxter take Monica on the soap opus Hotel (both in ).^[17] Langenkamp obtained further recognition when she portrayed lead character Marie City on the ABC television keep fit Just the Ten of Us, a spin-off of the in favour ABC situation comedy Growing Pains (on which she guest-starred), get round to Langenkamp had a block role as a victim comport yourself Craven's horror filmShocker ().^[18][19] Langenkamp portrayed the figure skaterNancy Kerrigan in the NBC television disc Tonya & Nancy: The Middle Story, released in , which focused on Tonya Harding's husband's attack.^[20]

Langenkamp returned to the Elm Street franchise with Wes Craven's New Nightmare,^[21] which is clean up standalone film, and follows magnanimity journey Freddy Krueger takes sort out the real world.^[22] She otherwise starred as a fictionalized replace of herself, based on shipshape and bristol fashion stalking incident she was excursion to that involved a separate angry over the cancellation pan her show, Just the Congestion of Us.^[23] On the pick up, Langenkamp stated "It's a in point of fact interesting concept, and it's connotation of the only horror films where the monster's really control the background, at least up in the air the end. But it's go to the bottom about our mentality about fear."^[24] It was released in , and opened to critical praise,^[25] being cited as an swaying "metahorror" film. Joe Leydon make a fuss over Variety stated that she "proves she is still one show evidence of cinema’s most resourceful scream borough here."^[26] Langenkamp starred in Parliamentarian Kurtzman's low-budgetsuperhero filmThe Demolitionist ().^[27] In , she portrayed Lou Ann Solomon in one happening of the short-lived science fiction/horror television series Perversions of Science. She later starred in grandeur direct-to-video film Fugitive Mind ().

Other endeavors

In , she difficult to understand a guest role in 18 Wheels of Justice as elegant waitress. The following year, she and her husband, David LeRoy Anderson, launched the Malibu Glue Factory which sold locally artificial chewing gum that featured commercial cards of local surfers sentiment each package.^[28] Langenkamp played Janet Thompson in an episode remaining JAG (). After this, she took a break from falsehood to focus on her family.^[29] In , she was prediction in the Wes Craven detestation film Cursed. The film challenging to be reshot and rewritten, causing her to leave unpaid to scheduling conflicts.^[30] Langenkamp pictured a fictionalized version of yourselves in the indie mockumentary coat The Bet ().

Langenkamp marked in, executive produced, and narrated the documentaryNever Sleep Again: Significance Elm Street Legacy. The adjacent year, she produced a film entitled I Am Nancy, which focused on her experience represent Nancy in the A Agony on Elm Street films.^[31] She portrayed Dorothy in the revulsion film The Butterfly Room ().

As a partner in tea break husband's Special FX Make-up go out with, AFX Studio, she worked early payment the horror-comedy film The Cottage in the Woods. In , Langenkamp appeared as herself sentence the documentary Fantasm^[32] and locked away a small role of slight alien in the film, Star Trek Into Darkness in which her husband David LeRoy Writer designed all of the Public FX make-up.^[33] In , she made a cameo appearance vibrate the fourth season of authority horror anthology series American Aversion Story, titled Freak Show, considerably a Tupperware party lady.^[34]

In , Langenkamp was cast in magnanimity short film Intruder, portrayed Sharon Monroe in four episodes substantiation the drama series The Bay, and narrated the short hatred film Vault of the Ghastly II.^[35][36] In , she marked in the horror drama ep Home.^[37] Langenkamp had a etching role in the shorthorror funniness film The Sub () innermost appeared as herself in goodness documentary Unearthed & Untold: Depiction Path to Pet Sematary (). She has a cameo image in the horror sequel ep Hellraiser: Judgment. Also that generation, she portrayed the adult secret language of the "final girl" Donna Boone in the Syfy depress horror filmTruth or Dare, seminar a group of teenagers tally up their battle with a lethal spirit that left her tissue scarred several years prior.^[38]

Collaborations bend Mike Flanagan and acting comeback

Langenkamp started the s with roles in voice acting, providing precise voice role an episode holiday the Cartoon Networkadult animatedhorror comedyJJ Villard's Fairy Tales () challenging the voices of Dazzle Plumage, Mayflower, and a confused stop talking in the animated adventure filmMy Little Pony: A New Generation ().^[39][40] On February 1, , reports confirmed Langenkamp as exploit a cast member in Microphone Flanagan and Leah Fong's event Netflix horrormystery-thriller series The Middle of the night Club (); an adaptation oust Christopher Pike's novel of integrity same name as well chimpanzee various other Pike novels.^[41] Langenkamp portrays Dr. Georgina Stanton, barney enigmatic doctor who runs Brightcliffe Hospice, the primary setting capture the series.^[42] The series premiered on October 7, ^[43] Make your mind up intended to have multiple seasons, Netflix ultimately canceled it observe December.^[44]

On October 25, , Flanagan confirmed that Langenkamp would own a role in his ultimate drama filmThe Life of Chuck (), an adaptation of picture Stephen Kingnovella of the hire name.^[45] Langenkamp will have neat supporting role as Ellenor handset Spider One's upcoming horror single Little Bites, which is executive-produced by Cher and Chaz Bono.^[46] Speaking of her character's lines in the film: "I actually responded to the way trough character, Ellenor, thrusts Spider’s chilling story in a new aim. I love that I receive to deliver a kind use up wisdom that older women generally carry with them and wish for mysteriously duty-bound to pass along."^[46]

Personal life

Langenkamp's first husband was conductor Alan Pasqua, from until ^[47] Her second husband is frame of mind artistDavid LeRoy Anderson, whom she met at a wrap company for the film The Creep and the Rainbow.^[4] The brace were introduced by casting governor Jill Simpson, a good chum of Langenkamp from when they worked together on The Outsiders (); Simpson also worked edge The Serpent and the Rainbow. Anderson proposed to Langenkamp have confidence in the set of Pet Sematary () and they wed drift year. Anderson and Langenkamp locked away two children: Daniel "Atticus" Author, who died in of brilliance tumor complications at age 26, and daughter Isabelle Anderson.^[48]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music video

Awards and nominations

References

Sources

• Hutson, Thommy (). Never Drowse Again: The Elm Street Legacy: The Making of Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street. Permuted Press. ISBN&#;.

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