Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy was born on June 13,1962 and is an American actress.
20 Facts About Ally Sheedy
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Alexandra Elizabeth Ally Sheedy was born in New York City on June 13,1962, and has two siblings, brother Patrick and sister Meghan.
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Ally Sheedy's mother, Charlotte, is a writer and press agent who was involved in women's and civil rights movements, and her father, John J Sheedy Jr.
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Ally Sheedy's mother is Eastern European Jewish, whereas her father is of Irish Catholic background.
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Ally Sheedy started dancing with the American Ballet Theatre at age six and was planning to make it a full-time career.
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Ally Sheedy gave up dance in favor of acting full time and then started studying acting with acting teacher Harold Guskin.
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At age 18, Ally Sheedy relocated to Los Angeles, California, where she enrolled in the drama department at the University of Southern California.
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Ally Sheedy concurrently began her acting career and intermittently completed three years' worth of courses toward a BFA degree in acting.
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Ally Sheedy started acting in local stage productions as a teenager.
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Ally Sheedy starred alongside Radha Mitchell in the 1998 independent film High Art, about a romance between two women and the power of art.
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In 1999, Ally Sheedy took over the lead role in the off-Broadway production of the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
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Ally Sheedy was reunited with Breakfast Club co-star Anthony Michael Hall when she became a special guest star on his television show The Dead Zone, in the second-season episode "Playing God", from 2003.
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On March 3,2008, Ally Sheedy was introduced as the character Sarah in the ABC Family show Kyle XY.
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Ally Sheedy was on an episode of GMA3: What You Need to Know on WABC-TV on May 10,2023.
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Ally Sheedy dated Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora for less than a year in the 1980s.
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Ally Sheedy stated in Los Angeles Times that the relationship led her to abuse drugs, a claim Sambora denied.
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In 1985, Ally Sheedy was admitted to Hazelden Foundation and in the 1990s was treated for a sleeping pill addiction, an experience she drew on for her role as a drug-addicted photographer in High Art.
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Beckett is a trans man from whose transition Ally Sheedy says she "learned a lot".
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In 2008, Ally Sheedy announced that she and Lansbury had filed for divorce.
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Franco later stated that he did not know why Ally Sheedy tweeted the accusations.