Lazlo pearlman biography of nancy allen

Nancy Allen born June 24, is an American actress. She came to prominence for her performances in several films directed by Brian De Palma in the s and early s. Allen was subsequently cast as the co-lead in the Robert Zemeckis -directed comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand , followed by a supporting part in Steven Spielberg 's Allen married De Palma in , and her subsequent portrayal of a prostitute who witnesses a murder in his feature Dressed to Kill earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year.

She then appeared in De Palma's neo-noir film Blow Out , playing a woman implicated in an assassination. Allen and De Palma divorced in Allen garnered mainstream fame playing Anne Lewis in Paul Verhoeven 's RoboCop , a role she reprised for the two sequels.

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Her father was a police lieutenant. Allen was a very shy child, so her mother enrolled her in dance classes when she was four. She attended the Academy of Mount St. Ursula in the Bronx, before the family relocated to Yonkers.