Heather Langenkamp

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Heather Langenkamp (born July 17, 1964) is an American film and television actress.

Early life

Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and attended Holland Hall School there. She is the daughter of Mary Alice Langenkamp, an artist; and Robert Dobie Langenkamp, Jr., [ [http://www.langenkamp-art.com/biography.htm M. A. Langenkamp - Biography ] ] a petroleum attorney and who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy in both the Carter Administration (where he was largely responsible for realising the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) and Clinton Administration (where he was largely responsible for privatising Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1), and as Director of the National Energy & Environmental Law & Policy Institute of the University of Tulsa College of Law. [ [curriculum vitae of Prof. R. Dobie Langenkamp] ]

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 Tulsa, while she was attending Booker T Washington High School. 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. She starred in two of the film's sequels. In between starring roles, she played Marie Lubbock on the television series "Just the Ten of Us" from 1988 to 1990.

Langenkamp starred in "Fugitive Mind" in 1999. In 2007, she played a role in the Italian independent film "The Bet". She is also credited as AFX production coordinator as Heather Langenkamp Anderson on the 2007 film "Evan Almighty".

Director

Heather Langenkamp is one of three scream queens (also including Danielle Harris and Elle Cornell) making their directorial debuts in the horror anthology film "Prank". Each actress is directing one of the three segments in the film. Langenkamp's film is entitled "Jessica". Filming begins summer 2008.

Personal life

She runs the Malibu Gum Company, which sells chewing gum packaged with trading cards depicting local surfing stars. She has married twice and has two children from her second husband, special effects make-up artist David Anderson.

A lot of the plot of "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" was based on an incident in which Langenkamp was stalked by a "Just the Ten of Us" fan.Fact|date=December 2007

Filmography

*"Nickel Mountain" (1984)
*"A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984)
*"Can a Guy Say No?" (1986)
*"Heart of the City" (1986)
*"" (1987)
*"The New Adventures of Beans Baxter" (TV Show)
*"Kate & Allie" (TV Show)
*"Hotel" (TV Show)
*"Shocker" (1989)
*"Just the Ten of Us" (TV Show)
*"Growing Pains" (TV Show)
*"Wes Craven's New Nightmare" (1994)
*"" (1994)
*"The Demolitionist" (1995)
*"Perversions of Science" (1997)
*"Partners" (TV Show)
*"Fugitive Mind" (1999)
*"18 Wheels for Justice" (TV Show)
*"JAG" (TV Show)
*"Dawn of the Dead" (2004) (Production Crew)
*"The Bet" (2007)
*"Prank" (2008)

References

External links

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