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While studying at Stanford University, she rose to international prominence when Wes Craven cast her as Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). After a string of television guest appearances, she returned as Nancy in the 1987 sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) .
- January 1, 1
- 1.60 m
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- An Unknown as The Final Girl
- You've Got to Have A Sequel... Or Five
- A New Nightmare
- Continuing Career
Craven knocked it out of the park with her casting. Heather Langenkamp was astounding in the role. Nancy Thompson fit the final girl mold: shy, smart, and good. That didn’t mean she was a stick in the mud though. Her friends were edgier. She loved them and laughed with them. She had a boyfriend named Glen (memorably played by Johnny Depp). She also...
A Nightmare on Elm Street was a massive success, earning a solid $25 million at the box office, but growing in strength on home video. Its popularity demanded a sequel. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge was an okay follow up, though without Craven and Langenkamp on board, it didn’t feel right. Meanwhile, Langenkamp’s acting career didn’...
It’s a shame that Langenkamp’s career didn’t take off after that. What she accomplished in the Nightmare films was just as great if not better than what Jamie Lee Curtis did in horror films throughout the late '70s and early '80s. There was no bitterness from Langenkamp, however. Throughout the late '80s and early '90s, she did more TV work, most n...
Despite her limited roles, Langenkamp showed what a talented performer she is. If in Dream Warriors she tapped into the maturity of someone a decade older than her, in A New Nightmare, Langenkamp, who wasn’t even 30, seemed like someone world-weary and in their 40s. Part of that came from the bravery of accepting a role that hit a little too close ...
- Senior Features Writer
Her breakthrough role was as the resourceful 15-year-old heroine Nancy Thompson in Wes Craven 's slasher film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)—the first film in the franchise of the same name. She reprised her role as Nancy in the third film and appeared as a fictionalized version of herself in the meta film Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994).
Oct 16, 2022 · Published Oct 16, 2022. Langenkamp revisits committing to 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' before being told it was a horror movie. Heather Langenkamp is a horror icon courtesy of her...
- Perri Nemiroff
- 16 min
- Senior Producer
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It's my nightmare he comes to. Nancy Thompson : [to Glen] I'm into survival. Rod Lane : [after tackling Glen on the lawn] It's Rod Lane, bringing Lantz down, just three yards from the goal line! What a brilliant tackle and the crowd goes wild!
Heather Langenkamp, the beloved scream queen who played final girl Nancy Thompson in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, could never get past the horror genre, so she made a documentary...
