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Born
Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp [1]

(1964-07-17) July 17, 1964 (age 60) [2]
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Other namesHeather Langenkamp Anderson
Heather L. Anderson
Heather Anderson
Occupations
  • Actress
  • director
  • disc jockey
  • producer
Years active1983–present
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Heather 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.

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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. [3] She wrote and directed the short film Washed Away (2019).

Early life

Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [4] Her mother, Mary Alice (née Myers), is an artist and an abstract expressionist painter. Her father, Robert Dobie Langenkamp, was a petroleum attorney and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy. She later moved to Washington, DC where she attended the National Cathedral School for Girls, graduating in 1982.

Career

A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and television stardom

At age eighteen, Langenkamp worked for the Tulsa Tribune where she saw an advertisement looking for extras for Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders in the summer of 1982. [5] Auditions occurred at a nearby elementary school where the casting director took a Polaroid of her; Langenkamp got a call back to appear in a high school scene, in which she had to wear attire based on 1950s fashion. [5] Coppola was shooting another film in Tulsa the same summer, Rumble Fish , after The Outsiders; Langenkamp's friend got a phone call to appear in a street scene, and her friend's mother felt more comfortable with Langenkamp going with her to the set at night. [5] The casting director allowed her to join and gave dialogue to Langenkamp—in which she did several takes of her saying dialogue to Matt Dillon's character; The Outsiders and Rumble Fish did not include her scenes but helped her get into the Screen Actors Guild. [5] These positive experiences made Langenkamp feel like she should attempt to pursue an acting career in Hollywood. [6]

While studying at Stanford University, she would travel to Los Angeles on the weekends to pursue auditions, where she had her first official Hollywood audition for Drew Denbaum's independent drama film Nickel Mountain (1984). [6] While auditioning, her rented car got hit by a runaway truck on Cahuenga Boulevard. [6] Denbaum and the casting director helped Langenkamp during the ordeal. [6] She bonded with them and got cast in the lead role of Callie Wells. [6] She has expressed regret for doing the nude scene as she feared voicing her discomfort while filming—as she was an up-and-coming actress. [7] Her next role was Beth, the daughter of Joanne Woodward and Richard Crenna's characters in the CBS television film Passions (1984). [6] The direction towards her character received praise. [8] Langenkamp reflects, "It was a complex part. Richard plays a philandering husband who has a son with his mistress, so my character was acting like a bridge between these two families." [6]

Langenkamp became aware of auditions for a horror film known as A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) at the end of 1983. [9] Casting director Annette Benson was familiar to Langenkamp as she had brought her in to read for the lead role in Night of the Comet (1984); the part ultimately went to Catherine Mary Stewart. [10] She auditioned for the highly sought after role of fifteen-year-old heroine Nancy. [10] There were not enough chairs to accommodate the number of actresses auditioning. [9] Craven stated that he wanted someone very "non-Hollywood" and someone who embodied the "all-American, girl-next-door" for the role and believed that Langenkamp had these qualities. [10] Craven informed her that she got the part in January 1984. [9] She beat out more than 200 actresses auditioning for the part. She won the Best Actress Award at the Avoriaz Film Festival for her role as Nancy, [11] and Empire magazine wrote that "Heather Langenkamp [is] an appealing high school lead." [12] She was then established as a scream queen. Later that year, she starred in the music video for ZZ Top's "Sleeping Bag". [13]

In 1986, she guest-starred in CBS Schoolbreak Special and ABC Afterschool Specials before being cast in Suburban Beat (1985), a television pilot that did not get picked up, where she played Hope Sherman, the youngest housewife. [14] Craven approached Langenkamp to reprise her role of Nancy in the sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), about the survivors of Freddy Krueger's previous attempts; [15] it opened to box office success in 1987 grossing over $44 million. [16] Later, she had a guest appearance as Tracy in the television series The New Adventures of Beans Baxter and Monica on the soap opera Hotel (both in 1987). [17] Langenkamp obtained further recognition when she portrayed lead character Marie Lubbock on the ABC television series Just the Ten of Us , a spin-off of the popular ABC situation comedy Growing Pains (on which she guest-starred), from 1988 to 1990. Langenkamp had a cameo role as a victim in Craven's horror film Shocker (1989). [18] [19] Langenkamp portrayed the figure skater Nancy Kerrigan in the NBC television film Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story, released in 1994, which focused on Tonya Harding's husband's attack. [20]

Langenkamp returned to the Elm Street franchise with Wes Craven's New Nightmare , [21] which is a standalone film, and follows the journey Freddy Krueger takes to the real world. [22] She instead starred as a fictionalized version of herself, based on a stalking incident she was subject to that involved a fan angry over the cancellation of her show, Just the Ten of Us. [23] On the film, Langenkamp stated "It's a really interesting concept, and it's one of the only horror movies where the monster's really in the background, at least until the end. But it's all about our mentality about fear." [24] It was released in 1994, and opened to critical praise, [25] being cited as an influential "metahorror" film. Joe Leydon of Variety stated that she "proves she is still one of cinema’s most resourceful scream queens here." [26] Langenkamp starred in Robert Kurtzman's low-budget superhero film The Demolitionist (1995). [27] In 1997, she portrayed Lou Ann Solomon in one episode of the short-lived science fiction/horror television series Perversions of Science . She later starred in the direct-to-video film Fugitive Mind (1999).

Other endeavors

Langenkamp in 2008 HeatherLangenkamp.JPG
Langenkamp in 2008

In 2000, she had a guest role in 18 Wheels of Justice as a waitress. The following year, she and her husband, David LeRoy Anderson, launched the Malibu Gum Factory which sold locally manufactured chewing gum that featured trading cards of local surfers inside each package. [28] Langenkamp played Janet Thompson in an episode of JAG (2002). After this, she took a break from acting to focus on her family. [29] In 2005, she was cast in the Wes Craven horror film Cursed . The film had to be reshot and rewritten, causing her to leave due to scheduling conflicts. [30] Langenkamp portrayed a fictionalized version of herself in the indie mockumentary film The Bet (2007).

Langenkamp starred in, executive produced, and narrated the 2010 documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy . The following year, she produced a documentary entitled I Am Nancy , which focused on her experience portraying Nancy in the A Nightmare on Elm Street films. [31] She portrayed Dorothy in the horror film The Butterfly Room (2012).

As a partner in her husband's Special FX Make-up company, AFX Studio, she worked on the horror-comedy film The Cabin in the Woods . In 2013, Langenkamp appeared as herself in the documentary Fantasm [32] and had a small role of an alien in the film, Star Trek Into Darkness in which her husband David LeRoy Anderson designed all of the Special FX make-up. [33] In 2014, she made a cameo appearance in the fourth season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story , titled Freak Show , as a Tupperware party lady. [34]

In 2015, Langenkamp was cast in the short film Intruder, portrayed Sharon Monroe in four episodes of the drama series The Bay , and narrated the short horror film Vault of the Macabre II. [35] [36] In 2016, she starred in the horror drama film Home . [37] Langenkamp had a cameo role in the short horror comedy film The Sub (2017) and appeared as herself in the documentary Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary (2017). She has a cameo appearance in the horror sequel film Hellraiser: Judgment . Also that year, she portrayed the adult version of the "final girl" Donna Boone in the Syfy television horror film Truth or Dare , guiding a group of teenagers with their battle with a deadly spirit that left her physically scarred several years prior. [38]

Collaborations with Mike Flanagan and acting comeback

Langenkamp started the 2020s with roles in voice acting, providing a voice role an episode of the Cartoon Network adult animated horror comedy JJ Villard's Fairy Tales (2020) and the voices of Dazzle Feather, Mayflower, and a confused mother in the animated adventure film My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021). [39] [40] On February 1, 2021, reports confirmed Langenkamp as being a cast member in Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong's 10-episode Netflix horror mystery-thriller series The Midnight Club (2022); an adaptation of Christopher Pike's 1994 novel of the same name as well as various other Pike novels. [41] Langenkamp portrays Dr. Georgina Stanton, an enigmatic doctor who runs Brightcliffe Hospice, the primary setting of the series. [42] The series premiered on October 7, 2022. [43] While intended to have multiple seasons, Netflix ultimately canceled it in December. [44]

On October 25, 2023, Flanagan confirmed that Langenkamp would have a role in his forthcoming drama film The Life of Chuck (2024), an adaptation of the Stephen King novella of the same name. [45] Langenkamp will have a supporting role as Ellenor in Spider One's upcoming horror film Little Bites, which is executive-produced by Cher and Chaz Bono. [46] Speaking of her character's role in the film: "I really responded to the way my character, Ellenor, thrusts Spider’s terrifying story in a new direction. I love that I get to deliver a kind of wisdom that older women often carry with them and are mysteriously duty-bound to pass along." [46]

Personal life

Langenkamp's first husband was musician Alan Pasqua, from 1984 until 1987. [47] Her second husband is make-up artist David LeRoy Anderson, whom she met at a wrap party for the 1988 film The Serpent and the Rainbow . [4] The couple were introduced by casting director Jill Simpson, a good friend of Langenkamp from when they worked together on The Outsiders (1983); Simpson also worked on The Serpent and the Rainbow. Anderson proposed to Langenkamp on the set of Pet Sematary (1989) and they wed that year. Anderson and Langenkamp had two children: Daniel "Atticus" Anderson, who died in 2018 of brain tumor complications at age 26, and daughter Isabelle Anderson. [48]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1983 The Outsiders Uncredited extra roleScenes deleted [6]
Rumble Fish
1984 Nickel Mountain Callie Wells
A Nightmare on Elm Street Nancy Thompson
1987 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Nancy Thompson
1989 Shocker VictimCameo
1994 Wes Craven's New Nightmare Herself / Nancy Thompson
1995 The Demolitionist Christy Carruthers
1999 Fugitive Mind Suzanne HicksDirect-to-video
2007The BetHerself Short film
2008PrankNoneDirector; segment: "Jennifer"
2010 Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy Narrator / HerselfDocumentary; also executive producer
2011 I Am Nancy HerselfDocumentary; also producer
2012 The Butterfly Room Dorothy [49]
2013 Star Trek Into Darkness Moto Cameo appearance
2015IntruderSallyShort film
2016 Home Heather
2017 The Sub Senora BabcockShort film
2018 Hellraiser: Judgment LandladyDirect-to-video; cameo
2019Road Trash NarratorShort film
PortalFiona
Washed AwayNoneShort film; writer and director
In Search of Darkness HerselfDocumentary
2020 In Search of Darkness: Part II HerselfDocumentary
2021 My Little Pony: A New Generation Dazzle Feather / Mayflower (voice)
2022GlitchEmily's mother
2024 The Life of Chuck Vera

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1984 Passions Beth KennerlyTelevision film
1985Suburban BeatHope ShermanTelevision pilot
1986 CBS Schoolbreak Special EricaEpisode: "Have You Tried Talking to Patty?"
ABC Afterschool Special Paula FinkleEpisode: "Can a Guy Say No?"
Heart of the City AudreyEpisode: "Of Dogs and Cat Burglars"
1987 The New Adventures of Beans Baxter TracyEpisode: "Beans Goes to Camp"
Hotel MonicaEpisode: "Desperate Moves"
1988Circus of the Stars #13HerselfTelevision special
1988–1990 Growing Pains Marie Lubbock / Amy Boutilier5 episodes
Just the Ten of Us Marie LubbockMain role (47 episodes)
1990ABC TGIFMarie LubbockEpisode: "#1.19"
1994 Tonya and Nancy: The Inside Story Nancy Kerrigan Television film
1997 Perversions of Science Lou Ann SolomonEpisode: "Ultimate Weapon"
1999PartnersSuzanneEpisode: "Always..."
2000 18 Wheels of Justice WaitressEpisode: "Genesis
2002 JAG Janet ThompsonEpisode: "Odd Man Out"
2014 American Horror Story: Freak Show Tupperware Housewife2 episodes
2015 The Bay Sharon Monroe Web series; 4 episodes
2016–2020The BetHerselfWeb series; 4 episodes
2017 Truth or Dare Donna BooneTelevision film
2020 JJ Villard's Fairy Tales Charla (voice)Episode: "Boypunzel"
2022 The Midnight Club Dr. StantonMain role

Music video

Awards and nominations

YearAssociationCategoryWorkResult
1985 Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival Best Performance A Nightmare on Elm Street Won
1985 Young Artist Awards Best Young Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical, Comedy, Adventure or DramaNominated
1989 Young Artist Awards Best Young Actor/Actress Ensemble in a Television Comedy, Drama Series or Special Just the Ten of Us Nominated
1995 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Best Actress Wes Craven's New Nightmare Won
Fangoria Horror Hall of Fame —Won
2010 Fright Night Film Fest Scream Queen of the Year—Won
2020 Atlanta Horror Film Festival Best ActressCottonmouthWon
2021Indie FestBest Ensemble CastThe BetWon

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