Heather Langenkamp
Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp (born July 17, 1964) is an American actress, make-up artist and producer. She is best known for her role as Nancy Thompson from the A Nightmare on Elm Street films and she served as executive producer and narrator to the documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy. She is also known for her role as Marie Lubbock on the sitcom Just the Ten of Us and has had numerous television guest appearances. In 2011, she released the documentary I Am Nancy which focuses on her iconic role as Nancy Thompson. Langenkamp is behind the special effects for the anthology horror series, American Horror Story, and had a cameo appearance in season four, Freak Show, as Female Toulouse. In September 2015, it was revealed that Langenkamp does the special effects for Scream Queens. Heather currently portrays Sharon Monroe in The Bay.
Life and career
1964–83: Early life and career beginnings
Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her mother, Mary Alice (née Myers), is an artist, and her father, Robert Dobie Langenkamp, is a petroleum attorney who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy in both the Carter Administration (where he was largely responsible for realizing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) and the Clinton Administration (where he was largely responsible for privatizing Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1), and as Director of the National Energy & Environmental Law & Policy Institute of the University of Tulsa College of Law. She is of German, Scottish, and English ancestry. Langenkamp attended Holland Hall School in Tulsa. She graduated from The National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington, D.C. 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 her hometown of Tulsa and in Rumble Fish. She managed to be an extra in both films but her scenes were cut out of both of the final films.
