Heather Langenkamp Movies and Career Information

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. In 2010, she and many other of the Nightmare series alumni appeared in the documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy. Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended Holland Hall School in Tulsa. She graduated from The National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington, D.C.. She is the daughter of Mary Alice Langenkamp, an artist, and Robert Dobie Langenkamp, a petroleum attorney 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 the 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 her hometown of Tulsa. While she was studying at Stanford University, Wes