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Heather Langenkamp (born July 17, 1964) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her part as Nancy Thompson from the A Nightmare on Elm Street films. Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended Holland Hall School there. She is the daughter of Mary Alice Langenkamp, an artist; and Robert Dobie Langenkamp, Jr., a petroleum attorney and who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy in both the Carter Administration (where he was largely responsible for realizing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) and Clinton Administration (where he was largely responsible for privatizing Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1), and as Director of the National Energy & Environmental Law & Policy Institute of the University of Tulsa College of Law.

Langenkamp`s first acting venture was in her late teens: a small part in Francis Ford Coppola`s The Outsiders (1983), filmed to a large extent in Tulsa, while she was attending Booker T Washington High School. While she was studying at Stanford University, Wes Craven cast her as teen heroine Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street, the first film in the series. She starred in two of the film`s sequels. In between starring roles, she played Marie Lubbock on the television series Just the Ten of Us from 1988 to 1990. Langenkamp starred in Fugitive Mind in 1999. In 2007, she played a role in the Italian independent film The Bet. She is also credited as AFX production coordinator as Heather Langenkamp Anderson on the 2007 film Evan Almighty. Heather Langenkamp is one of three scream queens (also including Danielle Harris and Elle Cornell) making their directorial debuts in the horror anthology film, "Prank." Each actress is directing one of the three segments in the film.[citation needed] Langenkamp`s film is entitled, "Jessica." Filming began in the summer of 2008.

She runs the Malibu Gum Company, which sells chewing gum packaged with trading cards depicting local surfing stars. She has married twice and has two children from her second husband, special effects make-up artist David Anderson. Their son, Daniel Atticus, was born on May 24, 1991, and their daughter, Isabelle Eve, was born on December 24,1994. Many elements of the plot for Wes Craven`s New Nightmare was based on an incident in which Langenkamp was stalked by a Just the Ten of Us fan.

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