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Ally Sheedy
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- #001
Ally Sheedy danced with the American Ballet Theatre from about the age of six and pursued a career in dance seriously, but she gave it up when puberty filled out her breasts and the constant starvation diets led to an eating disorder, turning instead to acting full time.
- #002
At the age of 12, she wrote a bestselling novel.
- #003
She turned down the Kelly McGillis role in Top Gun (1986).
- #004
She was a bridesmaid at Demi Moore and Bruce Willis's wedding.
- #005
She was considered for the role of "Sarah Connor" in The Terminator (1984). The role ultimately went to Linda Hamilton.
- #006
She auditioned for A League of Their Own (1992) but did not get the part because she could not play baseball well enough.
- #007
Along with Judd Nelson, Demi Moore, Anthony Michael Hall, Sean Penn, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez and Andrew McCarthy, she was one of the nine original members of the 1980s "Brat Pack."
- #008
She auditioned for the Molly Ringwald role in Sixteen Candles (1984).
- #009
The addiction treatment Sheedy received was for sleeping pills. It helped her choose to take part in High Art (1998), in which she played a once-famous photographer who was also a drug addict.
- #010
She is the niece of Angela Lansbury and Bruce Lansbury.
- #011
She was treated for prescription drug addiction.
- #012
She is of Irish and German descent on her father's side and Ashkenazi Jewish descent on her mother's side.
- #013
Her mother is Charlotte Sheedy, one of New York's leading literary agents.
- #014
She played rape victims twice, first in her debut film Bad Boys (1983) and again in Macon County Jail (1997). She later played a detective investigating a rape in Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge (1999).
- #015
On March 15, 1994, Rebecca Elizabeth Lansbury's only child was born. Beckett Lansbury began his transition to male while a student at Bard College and graduated in 2016. As of 2022, Beckett works in Bard College's Office of Gender Equity and as a teacher.
- #016
She has a rescued bluish-grey male greyhound, aptly named "Sky."
- #017
She turned down the lead role in Wild Orchid (1989).
- #018
She attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City with Lauren-Marie Taylor, who appeared in Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1981). They are still friends today.
- #019
She is the former daughter-in-law of Edgar Lansbury.
- #020
Ally Sheedy is the sister of Patrick Sheedy and Meghan Sheedy.
- #021
Ally Sheedy was born at 05:57 EDT.
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