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| Birth Name(s) : Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy |
Date of Birth: June 13, 1962 |
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Married
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Partner:
David Lansbury |
| Profession:
Actor |
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While at New York's Bank Street School, 12-year-old Ally Sheedy wrote about a mythical encounter between Queen Elizabeth I and an inquisitive mouse. The result, "She Was Nice to Mice" was published by McGraw--Hill and became an instant best seller. Although it proved a springboard to an acting career, Sheedy's strongest memories of childhood remain those of "dancing and doing plays." From six until fourteen, she danced with the American Ballet Theatre, and during summers at Fire Island she'd "get a bunch of kids together and stage shows on back lawns and porches."
When she discovered that to stay with dancing meant staying with starvation diets, she shifted her focus to acting for good. Meanwhile, her book brought her requests from several publications. The Village Voice asked her to review movies and the New York Times wanted her to review children's books. The assignment she accepted was from Ms. Magazine, which requested an article about her mother and herself. It was an appearance on the Mike Douglas Show to promote her book, however, that brought Sheedy work as a performer.
Signed by an agent who caught the show, she was sent out on television commercials immediately. Only 15 at the time, she also performed off Broadway and on a series of after-school specials.
The day she turned 18, Sheedy packed her bags and headed for Los Angeles, where she enrolled in the drama department at USC, and soon landed roles in the television drama "The Best Little Girl in the World," "The Day the Loving Stopped," "Splendor in the Grass" and "Homeroom," and played a recurring character on "Hill Street Blues."
The strength of her performances led directly to her film debut as Sean Penn's naive but knowing girlfriend, J.C., in "Bad Boys." That same year (1983) she starred as Matthew Broderick's zany partner in "WarGames." After starring as Rob Lowe's would-be romantic interest in "Oxford Blues," the withdrawn adolescent of "The Breakfast Club" and Gene Hackman's adoring daughter in "Twice in a Lifetime," Sheedy played her first fully adult role in "St. Elmo's Fire," the 1985 hit about college friends. |
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Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American screen and stage actress, possibly best known for her roles in the "Brat Pack" films The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire.
Sheedy was born in New York City to John J. Sheedy, Jr., a Manhattan-based advertising executive, and Charlotte Baum, a notable press agent who was involved in women's and civil rights movements. Her parents divorced in 1971. She has two siblings, Patrick and Meghan.
In 1999, Sheedy took over the lead role in the off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. She was the first female to play the part of the German transsexual "Hedwig". Her run was terminated early amid bad reviews.
She was reunited with Breakfast Club co-star Anthony Michael Hall when she became a special guest star on his television show The Dead Zone, in the second-season episode "Playing God" (2003) where Johnny (Anthony Michael Hall) is reunited with two close friends from high school, one of whom is awaiting a heart transplant and the other (Ally Sheedy) is the donor.
Sheedy has also appeared in an episode of C.S.I. in which she played a woman who murdered her boyfriend's wife while mixed up in an estranged cult. (Leaping Lizards).
Sheedy is married to actor David Lansbury, the nephew of actress Angela Lansbury and son of Edgar Lansbury, the producer of the original production of Godspell. The couple have a daughter, Rebecca, born in 1994. |
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| It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any "connections." I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work. |
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