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Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp (born July 17, 1964) is an American actress, director, writer, producer, and disc jockey. Langenkamp is best known for her acting work within the horror genre, as well as television sitcoms. Langenkamp was inducted into the Fangoria Chainsaw Hall of Fame in 1995 and one of her films is preserved in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
Langenkamp was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She appeared as an extra in the Francis Ford Coppola productions The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983) before making her debut as a leading actress in the little-seen Nickel Mountain (1984). Langenkamp had her breakthrough role as Nancy Thompson in Wes Craven's slasher film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). She reprised her role as Nancy in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) and portrayed a fictionalized version of herself in Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). Her other feature films include The Butterfly Room (2012), Portal (2019), Little Bites (2024), and The Life of Chuck (2025).
On television, Langenkamp is best recognized for appearing on the ABC sitcoms Growing Pains (1988-1990) and Just the Ten of Us (1988-1990), and the NBC television film Tonya and Nancy: The Inside Story (1994) as figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. Langenkamp experienced an acting resurgence after being cast as Dr. Georgina Stanton in Mike Flanagan's Netflix series The Midnight Club (2022).
Langenkamp runs AFX Studio with her second husband David LeRoy Anderson, where she has worked as a special make-up effects coordinator for films such as Dawn of the Dead (2004), Cinderella Man (2005), Evan Almighty (2007), and The Cabin in the Woods (2012). She has worked on two documentaries about her experiences with the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise: executive producing and narrating Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010), and starring in and producing I Am Nancy (2011). She has been a disc jockey for the Malibu radio station KBUU-LP since the 2010s, going under the pseudonym Sandy Bottoms. She wrote and directed the short film Washed Away (2019).