Ally Sheedy Biography | Who Is Ally Sheedy?

Ally Sheedy (Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy) is an American actress and author. She made her film debut in 1983’s Bad Boys. She then became known as one of the Brat Pack group of actors in the films The Breakfast Club (1985) and also St. Elmo’s Fire (1985). Sheedy also acted in WarGames (1983) and Short Circuit (1986). She won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Lisa Cholodenko’s High Art (1998).

Ally attended Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School in New York City, and graduated in 1980. She later started dancing with the American Ballet Theatre at the age of six and she was planning to make it a fulltimr career. Sheedy however gave up dance in favor of her doing acting full-time.

Ally Sheedy Age | How Old Is Ally Sheedy?

Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy was born on June 13, 1962 in New York City, New York, USA. She is 56 years old as of 2018.

Ally Sheedy Family

Ally was born the eldest child in a family of three children. She was born to Charlotte (née Baum), a writer and press agent who was also involved in women’s and civil rights movements. Her father, John J. Sheedy, Jr., is a Manhattan advertising executive. She has a younger brother Patrick and Sister Meghan.

Her father is of Irish Catholic background whereas her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish and her maternal grandmother was from Odessa, Ukraine.

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Ally Sheedy Husband

Ally married actor David Lansburg on April 12, 1992. David is the nephew of actress Angela Lansbury and son of Edgar Lansbury, the original producer of Godspell. Because of this experience, Ally is a strong suporter of transgender advocacy. She later announced in May 2008 that she and Lansbury had filed for divorce.

Ally previously dated Richie Sambora, a Bon Jovi guitarist for less than an year in the 1980s. Sheedy stated in The Los Angeles Times that the relationship led her to abuse drugs, a claim Richie denied.

Ally Sheedy Daughter

Sheedy and Lansburg have one child, born a female in 1994 but now identifies as a man and goes by the name Beckett.

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Ally started acting in local stage productions as a teenager. She appeared in several television films in 1981, as well as three episodes of the television series Hill Street Blues. She then made her feature film debut in Bad Boys (1983), starring Sean Penn, where she plays Penn’s humiliated girlfriend. Her most active periods were in the 1990s, with roles in popular films such as WarGames, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, Short Circuit, and Maid to Order.

She starred alongside Radha Mitchell in the 1998 independent film High Art. It is a film about a romance between two women and the power of art. Sheedy’s performance in High Art was recognized with awards from the Independent Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and National Society of Film Critics.

She took over the lead role in the off-Broadway production of the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 1999. Sheedy was the first female to play the part of the genderqueer Hedwig, but her run then ended early amid “mixed” reviews, according to E! News. She was then cast as a lead actress in Sugar Town, an independent film, which featured an ensemble cast of actors and musicians that same year.

Ally Sheedy Breakfast Club

Ally stars in the comedy-drama film The Breakfast Club as Allison Reynolds as one of the teenagers

Sheelby 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,” from 2003.

Sheedy has also appeared in the episode “Leapin’ Lizards” of C.S.I. in which she played a woman who murdered her boyfriend’s wife while mixed up in a cult. She was introduced as the character Sarah, in the ABC Family show Kyle XY on March 3, 2008. Ally played the role of Mr. Yang on the USA Network television show Psych (in the third season finale) in 2009. She reprised the role in the fourth season, fifth season, and seventh season finales.

Ally Sheedy War Games

Sheedy stars in the Cold War Science fiction film “WarGames” as Jennifer Mack alongside Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, and John Wood.

Ally Sheedy Home Alone 2

She plays in the Christmas comedy film home alone 2: Lost in New York as a New York ticket agent.

Ally Sheedy Psych

Sheedy had a recurring role as an insane criminal, Mr. Yang, on the USA Network original series Psych. She appears in the episodes “An Evening With Mr. Yang”, “Mr. Yin Presents…”, “Yang 3 in 2D” and (briefly) “Psych: The Musical”.

Ally Sheedy Now | Ally Sheedy Today

Ally is still into her acting career and writing.

Ally Sheedy Books

• Yesterday I Saw the Sun: Poems – 1991
• She Was Nice to Mice – 1975
• She was Nice to Mice: The Other Side of Elizabeth I’s Character Never Before Revealed by Previous Historians – 1975
• SHE WAS NICE TO MICE AU: SHE WAS NICE TO MICE AU – 1976

Ally Sheedy Net Worth

The War Games star has an estimated net worth of $6 million.

Ally Sheedy Addiction

She was admitted to Hazelden Foundation in 1985 and was treated for a sleeping pill addiction in the 1990s. This is an experience which she drew on for her role as a drug-addicted photographer in High Art.

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Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy welcome Ocasio-Cortez to ‘The Breakfast Club’ after viral video

Published: 6th January 2018

Source: thehill.com

Actresses Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy welcomed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to join “The Breakfast Club” after an old video surfaced of the newly sworn-in congresswoman mimicking choreography from the 1980s film in an attempt to smear her.

“That’s it, Alexandria you’re in the club!” Ringwald said in a tweet on Thursday, which also featured the hashtag “#DemsTakeTheHouse.”

The welcome came a day after an edited clip from eight years ago emerged showing then-college student Ocasio-Cortez dancing with friends on a roof at Boston University, from which she graduated in 2011 with a degree in economics and international relations.

In the video, Ocasio-Cortez and her friends could be seen imitating dancing scenes from popular films in the 1980s, including “The Breakfast Club.”

The video had initially resurfaced in a tweet aiming to be an attack against the Democrat from the account @AnonymousQ1776, which has since been deleted, along with the caption: “Here is America’s favorite commie know-it-all acting like the clueless nitwit she is.”

But the clip instead prompted a fierce defense of her moves online, including freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who posted a tweet in support of Ocasio-Cortez earlier this week.

“If we can’t dance it’s not our revolution,” Omar said, referring to the Ocasio-Cortez tweet with her new dancing video.

Ocasio-Cortez also commented on the video’s emergence in a statement to The Hill on Friday.

“It is not normal for elected officials to have a reputation for dancing well and I’m happy to be one,” the New York Democrat said.

“I think it is just funny what is considered to be disqualifying. It is unsurprising to me that Republicans would think having fun should be disqualifying or illegal,” she continued.