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Heather Langenkamp

Known for
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), The Midnight Club (2022), Just the Ten of Us (1987)

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Heather Langenkamp is an actor best known for A Nightmare on Elm Street, Wes Craven's New Nightmare and The Midnight Club.

22 Interesting Facts About Heather Langenkamp

Interesting Facts (11)

  1. #001

    In Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Heather Langenkamp played a 15-year-old girl. In one scene, after her character experiences strange events and takes a serious beating, she looks in the mirror and says, "God, I look 20 years old." The joke is that although Langenkamp was playing a 15-year-old, she was actually 20 at the time.

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    Heather Langenkamp is co-owner and vice president, alongside her husband David LeRoy Anderson, of AFX Studio, a full-service special makeup effects shop in Panorama City, California.

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    Heather Langenkamp resembles Nancy Kerrigan and even played her in Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story (1994).

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    Heather Langenkamp founded the Malibu Gum Factory, which sold gum packaged with trading cards depicting local surf stars.

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    Heather Langenkamp praised her mentor John Saxon for his humble beginnings as an actor.

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  6. #006

    Charlie Sheen was a groomsman at Heather Langenkamp's wedding to David LeRoy Anderson, Sheen's Little League teammate from elementary school.

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    Although widely believed by some, Heather Langenkamp was never asked to reprise the role of Nancy in A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985).

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  8. #008

    Heather Langenkamp's first feature film role was in Nickel Mountain (1984).

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  9. #009

    Heather Langenkamp currently lives in Malibu, California.

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  10. #010

    Heather Langenkamp's parents are Robert Dobie Langenkamp and Mary Alice Langenkamp.

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  11. #011

    Heather Langenkamp is friends with Tuesday Knight and Lisa Wilcox.

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    In the mid-1980s, Heather Langenkamp and Shelley Fabares teamed up for a Murder, She Wrote (1984)-style pilot for a series called Suburban Beat (1985). They were cast as housewives who solve mysteries.

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Life & Family (10)

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    It took Heather Langenkamp seven years to earn her English degree from Stanford University because she was working at the same time.

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    Heather Langenkamp holds a degree in English Literature from Stanford University.

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  3. #015

    Heather Langenkamp's son Daniel Atticus Anderson died on January 10, 2018, from glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) brain cancer, which he had battled for six years.

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  4. #016

    On May 24, 1991, Heather Langenkamp gave birth to her first child, Atticus Anderson, at age 26. The child's father is her second husband, David LeRoy Anderson.

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    On December 24, 1994, Heather Langenkamp gave birth to her second child, Isabelle Eve Anderson, at age 30. The child's father is her second husband, David LeRoy Anderson.

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  6. #018

    Heather Langenkamp is the older sister of Daniel Langenkamp (born 1968), a diplomat at the US State Department; of Matthew Langenkamp (born 1966), owner of Freedom Tomato, a self-sufficient farm in Connecticut; and of Lucy Langenkamp (born around 1974), a practicing nurse and hospice nurse supervisor.

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  7. #019

    Heather Langenkamp's father is a retired lawyer and professor, and her mother is an abstract expressionist painter and retired art professor.

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  8. #020

    Heather Langenkamp graduated in 1982 from the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C.

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  9. #021

    Heather Langenkamp is of German, Scottish, English and Irish descent. The Langenkamp family's origins trace back to Germany.

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  10. #022

    Heather Langenkamp is Stacy Langenkamp's aunt.

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