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Name: Heather Langenkamp
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Date of Birth:
July 17, 1964
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Place of Birth:
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Mini-bio:
Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma where she attended Holland Hall School. She is the daughter of Mary Alice, a painter, and Robert Dobie Langenkamp, an attorney who worked at the Energy Departme...( read more)nt of the Carter Administration.
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 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. 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.