Heather Langenkamp

Heather Langenkamp
Langenkamp at a celebrity autograph collector's convention in Burbank, California, 2008
Born	(1964-07-17) July 17, 1964 Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Other names	Heather Langenkamp-Anderson
Occupation(s)	Actress Composer Make-up artist Director Producer
Years active	1983–present
Spouse(s)	Alan Pasqua (1984-1987) David LeRoy Anderson (1989-present)

Heather Langenkamp (born July 17, 1964) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her part as Nancy Thompson from the A Nightmare on Elm Street films. In 2010, she and many other of the Nightmare series alumni appeared in the documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy.

Early life

Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended Holland Hall School in Tulsa. She graduated from The National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington, D.C.. She is the daughter of Mary Alice Langenkamp, an artist, and Robert Dobie Langenkamp, a petroleum attorney who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy in both the Carter Administration (where he was largely responsible for realizing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) and the Clinton Administration (where he was largely responsible for privatizing Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1), and as Director of the National Energy & Environmental Law & Policy Institute of the University of Tulsa College of Law.

Film career

Langenkamp's first acting venture was in her late teens: a small part in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders (1983), filmed to a large extent in her hometown of Tulsa. While she was studying at Stanford University, Wes Craven cast her as teen heroine Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street, the first film in the series. In 1985, she received the Best Actress Award at the Avoriaz Film Festival for this role. She continued her role in two of the film's sequels: Dream Warriors - A Nightmare on Elm Street III and Wes Craven's New Nightmare. In between starring roles, she played Marie Lubbock on the television series Just the Ten of Us from 1988 to 1990. She recently performed a leading role in the film, The Butterfly Room, directed by Jonathan Zarantanello, now in post production. The film also stars Barbara Steele who plays her mother.

She and her husband, David Leroy Anderson, own and operate AFX Studio, a Special F/X Make-Up firm that is credited with the special make-up for such films as Dawn of the Dead (2004), Cinderella Man (2005), Dogtown and the Z Boys, FROST/NIXON, Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty, Dragonfly, and Angels and Demons. She also starred in, executive produced, and narrated the 2010 documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, which was directed by Daniel Farrands and Andrew Kasch.

Director

Langenkamp is currently directing a biographical documentary entitled I Am Nancy.

Personal life

She and her husband own AFX Studio, a Special F/X Make-Up Studio in Los Angeles. Years ago, she created and ran The Malibu Gum Factory, now closed, which sold chewing gum packaged with trading cards depicting local surfers.

Many elements of the plot for Wes Craven's New Nightmare are based on an incident in which Langenkamp was stalked by a fan.

Filmography

Actress

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	The Outsiders		Scenes Deleted
1984	Nickel Mountain	Callie Wells
	A Nightmare on Elm Street	Nancy Thompson
	Passions	Beth	TV movies
1985	Suburban Beat	Hope Sherman
1986	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Erica	Episode: "Have You Tried Talking to Patty?"
	ABC Afterschool Specials	Paula Finkle	Episode: "Can a Guy Say No?"
	Heart of the City	Cathy	TV movie
1987	A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors	Nancy Thompson
	Hotel	Monica	Episode: "Desperate Moves"
	The New Adventures of Beans Baxter	Tracy	Episode: "Beans Ges to Camp"
1988	Just the Ten of Us	Marie Lubbock	47 episodes (1988–1990)
	Growing Pains	Marie	Episode: "How the West Was Won: Part 1" Episode: "How the West Was Won: Part 2"
1989	Shocker	Victim
1990	Growing Pains	Amy Boutilier	Episode: "Let's Go to Europe: Part 1" Episode: "Let's Go to Europe: Part 2" Episode: "Let's Go to Europe: Part 3"
1994	Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story	Nancy Kerrigan	TV movie
	Wes Craven's New Nightmare	Herself	Portraying her real self with fictional storyline
1995	The Demolitionist	Christy Carruthers
1997	Perversions of Science	Lou Ann Solomon	Episode: "Ultimate Weapon"
1999	Partners	Suzanne	Episode: "Always..."
	Fugitive Mind	Suzanne Hicks	Video
2000	18 Wheels of Justice	Waitress	Episode: "Genesis"
2002	JAG	Janet Thompson	Episode: "Odd Man Out"
2007	The Bet	Heather Langenkamp
2010	The Butterfly Room	Dorothy	Post Production

Production Crew

Year	Title	Notes
2004	Dawn of the Dead
2011	The Cabin in the Woods	Post Production

Make-up Artist

Year	Title
2007	Evan Almighty

Self

Year	Title
1988	Circus of the Stars#13
1994	Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1999	Welcome to the Primetime
2004	Super Secret Movie Rules: Slashers
	The 100 Scariest Movie Moments
	E! True Hollywood Story
2005	The Perfect Scary Movie
2006	The House That Freddy Built
	Never Sleep Again: The Making of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'
2010	Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
	I Am Nancy

External links

• Heather Langenkamp at IMDb
• Heather Langenkamp at AllMovie
• Template:Myspace
• Heather Langenkamp at Aveleyman
• Heather Fansite