Heather Langenkamp

Heather Langenkamp

CountryUnited States United States
GenderFemale
BirthdayJul 17, 1964
BiographyHeather Elizabeth Langenkamp (born July 17, 1964) is an American actress, director, writer, producer, and disc jockey. Langenkamp played Nancy Thompson in Wes Craven's slasher film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), which earned her recognition as a scream queen and in popular culture. She reprised the role in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) and played a fictionalized version of herself in the meta film Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). In 1995, she was inducted into the Fangoria Chainsaw Hall of Fame.

Langenkamp was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She appeared as an extra in the Francis Ford Coppola productions The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983), and had a leading role in the little-seen Nickel Mountain (1984). Asides from her Nightmare on Elm Street appearances, she is also known for starring in the sitcoms Growing Pains (1988-1990) and Just the Ten of Us (1988-1990). Langenkamp experienced an acting resurgence after being cast as Dr. Georgina Stanton in Mike Flanagan's The Midnight Club (2022) and is set to star in Flanagan's drama film The Life of Chuck (2024) and Spider One's horror film Little Bites (2024).

Langenkamp runs AFX Studio with her second husband David LeRoy Anderson, where she has worked as a special make-up effects coordinator for films such as Dawn of the Dead (2004), Cinderella Man (2005), Evan Almighty (2007), and The Cabin in the Woods (2012). She has worked on two documentaries about her experiences with the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise: executive producing and narrating Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010), and starring in and producing I Am Nancy (2011). She has been a disc jockey for the Malibu radio station KBUU-LP since the 2010s, going under the pseudonym Sandy Bottoms. She wrote and directed the short film Washed Away (2019).

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