Heather Langenkamp as Nancy
Director Wes Craven's best is an imaginative variation on the early 80's teen slasher formula. Four teens are tormented by identical dreams involving a disfigured fiend in a fedora, striped sweater, and razor tipped glove. When all her friends start dying, smart girl Langenkamp discovers the dream monster to be one Fred Krueger, a child molester and murderer who was torched by the neighborhood parents when released from jail on a technicality. In order to defeat the vengeful nightmare killer, Heather must try to bring him out of her dreams into the real world. The best of the popular series, only the "setting things up for the sequel" ending mars an otherwise perfect tale.
Biography for Heather Langenkamp
Date of birth
17 July 1964
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Sometimes Credited As:
Heather Langenkamp-Anderson
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Trivia
Graduated From Booker T. Washington High school in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1982.
Father is a lawyer.
During the mid-80's Heather Langenkamp and Shelley Fabares teamed up in a "Murder She Wrote"-style pilot for a television series. They were cast as housewives who solved mysteries.
She has a degree in English from Stanford University.
Langenkamp's voice appears twice in the song "Are You Ready For Freddy" by The Fat Boys, which plays at the end of A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master.
It took her 7 years to earn her English degree from Stanford because she was working at the same time.
Charlie Sheen was the best man at her wedding to Anderson, Sheen's friend from high school.
Is a member of the PTA, and leads a local beach-cleanup effort.
Is an avid photographer.
Runs the Malibu Gum Company, which sells chewing gum packaged with trading cards depicting local surfing stars.
Has two kids from her marriage to special effects make-up artist David Anderson: son David Atticus Anderson (born 24 May 1991) and daughter Isabelle Eve Anderson (born 24 December 1994).
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Personal 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."
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Links:
Boogeymen (2001) (V) (archive footage) .... Nancy Thompson (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
Love Master, The (2000)
Fugitive Mind (1999) (V) .... Suzanne Hicks
Demolitionist, The (1995) .... Christy Carruthers
New Nightmare (1994) .... Herself
... aka Nightmare On Elm Street 7, A (1994)
... aka Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) (USA: complete title)
Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story (1994) (TV) .... Nancy Kerrigan
Shocker (1989) .... Victim
... aka Shocker: No More Mr. Nice Guy (1989) (USA)
Circus of the Stars #13 (1988) (TV)
"Just the Ten of Us" (1988) TV Series .... Marie Lubbock
Have You Tried Talking to Patty? (1987) (TV)
Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A (1987) .... Nancy Thompson
Can a Guy Say No? (1986) (TV)
Heart of the City (1986) (TV)
Nickel Mountain (1985) .... Callie Wells
Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984) .... Nancy Thompson
Passions (1984) (TV) .... Beth
Rumble Fish (1983) (scenes deleted)
Outsiders, The (1983) (scenes deleted)
Miscellaneous Crew
Dawn of the Dead (2004) (production crew) (as Heather Langenkamp-Anderson)
Freddy Vs. Jason (2003) (special thanks)
Other Heather Langenkamp pages on Women of Horror:
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3
