Langenkamp was innate inside Tulsa, Oklahoma to Dobie and Mary Alice Langenkamp. A blue-eyed, brunet Langenkamp's 1st acting venture was inside her late teens: the little section inside Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 screen adaption of S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders (1983), incidentally to a large extent filmed in Tulsa.

When she was researching at Stanford University, Wes Craven cast her as adolescent heroine Nancy Thompson in the foremost Nightmare. Langenkamp's clean-handed look coupled by having natural acting ability for the role helped the film turn into a immense pack professional profits, which has up to now spawned vii sequels, of which Heather has starred around both. Inside between starring roles, she played self-examining Marie Lubbock on the television series Just the Ten of Us from 1988 to 1990.

She reprised her role of Thompson around A portion Trio. Inside 1994, Wes Craven directed the seventh film to feature Freddy Krueger - ''Wes Craven's New Nightmare''. This film, extra challenging than others in the franchise, saw Langenkamp play herself, when Krueger (played by Robert Englund) tried to break out of a picture show series & into the "real world". When a pic progresses, Langenkamp shifts from either swimming herself to swimming Nancy "one last time" as she is the lone human world health organization potty kill Freddy.

Langenkamp's virtually all recent screen appearance was inside Fugitive Mind in 1999. She presently diarrhea a Malibu Gum Company, which sells chewing gum packaged by having futures trading cards depicting local surfriding stars. She has married twice & has ii kids from either her 2nd hubby, favorite results produce-higher creative person David Anderson.