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Heather Langenkamp

Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp (born July 17, 1964) is an American actress, director, disc jockey, and producer. 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), ''Just the Ten of Us'' (1988-1990), and ''Perversions of Science'' (1997). Her continued horror roles include the films ''The Butterfly Room'' (2012), ''Home'' (2016) and ''Hellraiser: Judgment'' (2018), and the television productions ''Truth or Dare'' (2017) and ''The Midnight Club'' (2022). She has also appeared in the films ''Star Trek Into Darkness'' (2013) and ''My Little Pony: A New Generation'' (2021).

Langenkamp runs AFC 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). Provided by Wikipedia