Biography

Heather Langenkamp

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Born
July 17, 1964 · Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Nickname
- The Scream Queen
Height
5′ 3″ (1.60 m)

Mini bio

Heather Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. She got her start in acting when she was cast as an extra in the Francis Ford Coppola films The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983), which were both filmed in Tulsa. Her scenes were deleted from the final cut of both films. While studying at Stanford University, she rose to international prominence when Wes Craven cast her as Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). After a string of television guest appearances, she returned as Nancy in the 1987 sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). Subsequently, she became known for her role as the moralistic Marie Lubbock on the ABC television series Just the Ten of Us (1987), a spin-off of the popular ABC situation comedy Growing Pains (1985) (on which she guest-starred), from 1988 to 1990. In 1994, she portrayed fictionalized versions of herself in New Nightmare (1994) and the figure skater Nancy Kerrigan in Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story (1994). The following year, she had a supporting role as the reporter Christy Carruthers in the horror film The Demolitionist (1995). She served as executive producer and narrator for the documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010), followed by roles in The Butterfly Room (2012), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and Truth or Dare (2017). She has since starred in a variety of independent films. She co-owns AFX Studio, a company responsible for the special effects for films such as Dawn of the Dead (2004) and The Cabin in the Woods (2011). She has been married to David LeRoy Anderson since 1990. They have two children. She was previously married to Alan Pasqua.
- IMDb mini biography by: anonymous

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Gender / Gender identity
Female

Trademarks

Piercing and expressive blue eyes
Nancy Thompson from the Nightmare on Elm Street films

Trivia

In Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Heather played a 15-year-old girl. In a particular scene, after her character has experienced some bizarre events and is rather beaten down, she looks in a mirror and says, "God, I look 20 years old." The joke here is that even though Heather was playing a 15-year-old, she was actually 20 years old.
Co-owner and vice president (with husband, David LeRoy Anderson) of AFX Studio, a full-service special make-up effects shop located in Panorama City, California.
It took her seven years to receive her English degree from Stanford University because she was working at the same time.
Resembles Nancy Kerrigan and even played her in Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story (1994)
She has a degree in English Literature from Stanford University.

Quotes

When I'm around actresses who've put their careers at the top of their priorities, we don't have much in common.
I'm not rich or famous, and it doesn't bother me.
I do like acting, but it is just something that I do on the side, being rich and famous is not a priority for me. I have my husband, my kids, my parents, my brothers and sisters, my home and enough money. I don't need to be this rich and famous millionaire actress, I am quite happy with what I have and I can't think of anything that might be lacking from my life
Doing Nightmare didn't really help my career much because people have a stuffy mentality about horror films. I kind of feel what a porno actress might feel, trying to tell everyone how great her movie was.
[on Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story (1994)] I bet she detested that movie. I'm sure she hated it because everyone was just taking advantage of this tragedy in her own life. She never gained anything from all that. But I do think I'll have an opportunity to meet her someday, and I thought, "God, I wish they'd re-air that show because I'd like to see it and I don't have a tape of it." It was very original. It was an interview format where these people who are tangentially involved are interviewed, and you see scenes of us acting. It was kind of like Reds, that movie that Warren Beatty directed where you see the real people talk about it and then you see actors acting it out. I'd love to see it again. I thought it was really fun movie, and it was fun to make. It was super fun to make.