1. Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp was born on July 17,1964 and is an American actress, director, writer, producer, and disc jockey.
36 Facts About Heather Langenkamp
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Heather Langenkamp reprised the role in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and played a fictionalized version of herself in the meta film Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
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Heather Langenkamp appeared as an extra in the Francis Ford Coppola productions The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, and had a leading role in the little-seen Nickel Mountain.
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Heather Langenkamp experienced an acting resurgence after being cast as Dr Georgina Stanton in Mike Flanagan's The Midnight Club, then starred in Flanagan's drama film The Life of Chuck and Spider One's horror film Little Bites.
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Heather Langenkamp 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, and starring in and producing I Am Nancy.
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Heather Langenkamp has been a disc jockey for the Malibu radio station KBUU-LP since the 2010s, going under the pseudonym Sandy Bottoms.
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Heather Langenkamp wrote and directed the short film Washed Away.
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Heather Langenkamp's mother, Mary Alice, is an artist and an abstract expressionist painter.
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Heather Langenkamp's father, Robert Dobie Langenkamp, was a petroleum attorney and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy.
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Heather Langenkamp later moved to Washington, DC, where she attended the National Cathedral School for Girls, graduating in 1982.
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At age eighteen, Heather 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.
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Auditions occurred at a nearby elementary school where the casting director took a Polaroid of her; Heather Langenkamp got a call back to appear in a high school scene, in which she had to wear attire based on 1950s fashion.
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Coppola was shooting another film in Tulsa the same summer, Rumble Fish, after The Outsiders; Heather Langenkamp's friend got a phone call to appear in a street scene, and her friend's mother felt more comfortable with Heather Langenkamp going with her to the set at night.
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Heather Langenkamp bonded with them and got cast in the lead role of Callie Wells.
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Heather Langenkamp became aware of auditions for a horror film known as A Nightmare on Elm Street at the end of 1983.
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Heather Langenkamp auditioned for the highly sought after role of fifteen-year-old heroine Nancy.
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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 Heather Langenkamp had these qualities.
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Heather Langenkamp beat out more than 200 actresses auditioning for the part.
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Heather 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, from 1988 to 1990.
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Heather Langenkamp had a cameo role as a victim in Craven's horror film Shocker.
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Heather Langenkamp returned to the Elm Street franchise with Wes Craven's New Nightmare, which is a standalone film, and follows the journey Freddy Krueger takes to the real world.
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Heather Langenkamp 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.
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Heather Langenkamp starred in Robert Kurtzman's low-budget superhero film The Demolitionist.
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Heather Langenkamp later starred in the direct-to-video film Fugitive Mind.
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Heather Langenkamp played Janet Thompson in an episode of JAG.
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Heather Langenkamp starred in, executive produced, and narrated the 2010 documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy.
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Heather Langenkamp later produced and starred in the documentary I Am Nancy, which focuses on why villains become the focal point in popular culture rather than the hero and the connection her fans have to Nancy.
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In 2013, Heather Langenkamp 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.
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In 2015, Heather Langenkamp portrayed Sharon Monroe in four episodes of the drama series The Bay, and narrated the short horror film Vault of the Macabre II.
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Heather Langenkamp has a cameo appearance in the horror sequel film Hellraiser: Judgment.
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Heather Langenkamp started the 2020s with roles in voice acting, providing a voice role in an episode of the Cartoon Network adult animated horror comedy JJ Villard's Fairy Tales and the voices of Dazzle Feather, Mayflower, and a confused mother in the animated adventure film My Little Pony: A New Generation.
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On February 1,2021, reports confirmed Heather Langenkamp as being a cast member in Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong's 10-episode Netflix horror mystery-thriller series The Midnight Club ; an adaptation of Christopher Pike's 1994 novel of the same name as well as various other Pike novels.
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Heather Langenkamp portrays Dr Georgina Stanton, an enigmatic doctor who runs Brightcliffe Hospice, the primary setting of the series.
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In 2024, Heather Langenkamp had a supporting role as Ellenor in Spider One's horror film Little Bites, which was executive produced by Cher, followed by the crime film Plea.
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Heather Langenkamp is set to star in the upcoming horror films Last Chance Motel, Dirt, and Stalked.
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Anderson and Heather Langenkamp had two children: Daniel "Atticus" Anderson, who died in 2018 of brain tumor complications at age 26, and daughter Isabelle Anderson.