Heather Langenkamp


Heather Langenkamp
Gender:	Female
Medium(s):	Film
Roles:	Actress
Date of birth:	July 17th, 1964
Place of birth:	Tulsa, Oklahoma
Notable works:	Nightmare on Elm Street
1st Horror:	A Nightmare on Elm Street

Heather Langenkamp is an American actress born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 17th, 1964. She is best known for playing the heroine Nancy Thompson in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Langenkamp's character is notable for being the first on-screen heroine to defeat dream demon serial killer Freddy Krueger as seen in the 1984 Wes Craven film A Nightmare on Elm Street. Langenkamp reprised the role of Nancy in the third installment of the series A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors where the character was killed off at the end of the film. Although Nancy Thompson was gone, Heather Langenkamp was not quite through with the franchise. Ten years later, she appeared in the sixth sequel in the franchise New Nightmare, only this time she played herself. Langenkamp, as a character, was shown being harassed by an obscene phone caller/stalker - a storyline that struck a little too close to home for Langenkamp, who had suffered through her own turmoil with an obsessive fan during production of her short-lived sitcom Just the Ten of Us. Outside of the Nightmare franchise, Langenkamp also played a bit role as a victim in Wes Craven's 1989 horror film Shocker.

Body of work[]

Film

Year

Character

A Nightmare on Elm Street

1984

Nancy Thompson

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

1987

Nancy Thompson

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

1994

Nancy Thompson/Herself

Donna Boone - Adult

Jenn

Notes & Trivia[]

Heather as Freddy — It's a "Nightmare on Heather Street".

Heather Langenkamp's first film role was a deleted scene from the 1983 teen drama The Outsiders.
Heather Langenkamp used a body double for the bath tub scene in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Appeared as herself in Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
Heather Langenkamp has been married to makeup artist David LeRoy Anderson since 1989. They met at a wrap party for The Serpent and the Rainbow, which David had worked on. That movie, like Heather's most infamous film A Nightmare on Elm Street, was also directed by Wes Craven.
Heather Langenkamp's small screen work includes being part of the ensemble cast of the 1988-1989 sitcom series Just the Ten of Us.
In 2022, Heather Langenkamp began working on The Midnight Club.
Heather Langenkamp won the award for the category of Best Actress at the 1995 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards in recognition for her work in New Nightmare.
Heather Langenkamp won the Best Actress award at the Atlanta Horror Film Fest in 2020 for her work in the short film Cottonmouth.

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