Nancy Anne Allen (born June 24, 1950) is an American actress. She came to prominence for her performances in several films directed by Brian De Palma in the 1970s and early 1980s. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award nomination and three Saturn Award nominations.

The daughter of a New York City police lieutenant, Allen was raised in the Bronx, and attended the High School of Performing Arts, aspiring to have a career as a dancer. In her early twenties, she shifted her focus to acting and relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career there. Her first major role was as Chris Hargensen in Brian De Palma's film adaptation of Carrie (1976). Allen was subsequently cast as the lead in the Robert Zemeckis-directed comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), followed by a supporting part in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979).

Allen married De Palma in 1979, and her subsequent portrayal of a prostitute who witnesses a murder in his feature Dressed to Kill (1980) earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. She then appeared in De Palma's neo-noir film Blow Out (1981), playing a woman implicated in an assassination. Allen and DePalma divorced in 1984.

She appeared in the science fiction films Strange Invaders (1983) and The Philadelphia Experiment (1984), and Abel Ferrara's television film The Gladiator (1986). Allen garnered mainstream fame playing Anne Lewis in Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop (1987), a role she reprised for the two sequels that followed. Other credits include Poltergeist III (1988), Limit Up (1990), and Les patriotes (1994).

Allen stepped back from acting in 2008, and became involved in cancer support after her friend, Wendie Jo Sperber, died of breast cancer. In 2010, she was named executive director of the weSPARK Cancer Support Center in Los Angeles, which was founded by Sperber.

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Debiutowała na ekranie w w wieku 7 lat. Jednym z pierwszych "dorosłych" filmów Nancy Allen był horror "Carrie". Na jego planie nawiązała romans z reżyserem Brianem De Palma, którego poślubiła w 1979 r. Małżeństwo przetrwało tylko 4 lata, ale Nancy zdołała wystąpić w kilku filmach męża. W jednym z nich, "Home Movies" pokazała, że umie też grać role komediowe. Sporą popularność zapewnił jej też udział w obrazach innych twórców. Między innymi pojawiła się w: "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" [78] Roberta Zemeckisa, "1941" [79] Stevena Spielberga, "Eksperymencie Filadelfia' [84] Stewarta Raffila i "Robocopie" [97] Paula Verhoevena. Rozwód z De Palmą spowodował, że przestała dostawać ciekawe role, odseperował ją od wielkiego świata filmowego. W roku 1992 poślubiła Craiga Shoemakera, z którym żyje do dzisiejszego dnia

Nancy Anne Allen, más conocida como Nancy Allen es una actriz estadounidense conocida por sus actuaciones en los films de los años 1980 tales como; la saga Robocop, Dressed to Kill y Strange Invaders.