Who is ally sheedy

He said it in front of the whole crew. I was too wide, I guess, in the skirt they had given me to wear. It was a challenge for me starting out, but it seems almost impossible for young women now.

I do volunteer work in film and theater with teenage students at a public school in New York. The kids are gifted and, in my junior class, we recently completed a performance of Shakespeare scenes for the rest of the theater department. I get cast as the hairdresser and not the pretty sorority girl.

I reported it and nothing happened. Even teachers will see you in that light. At sixteen these students are being judged on their sexual attractiveness. Their talent is a gift, but it is not enough. What can I be? What should I have? Apparently, the look is now a superthin stomach area, big breasts, big butt, gorgeous face, and a freed nipple.

These girls say that there is an unattainable image that men have set for them in their professional lives — and that the men subscribing to this image have been raised to think this way. It gets worse. User Polls When you add '-ing' to movie titles How often do you go out to the movies?

What did you want to be when you grew up? See more awards ». Known For. The Breakfast Club Allison Reynolds. WarGames Jennifer. High Art Lucy Berliner. Short Circuit Stephanie Speck. Show all Hide all Show by Hide Show Actress 96 credits.

Chantilly Bridge post-production. Stephanie Carson. Yang - Psych the Musical Yin Presents Yang Celeste Fontaine. Shannon Turner. Thirty-five years can change you. Besides, the subject of John Hughes movies is not always an easy one these days. Elements of The Breakfast Club made her particularly uneasy, specifically a scene played for laughs in which it is implied her character, Claire, is groped beneath her skirt.

She also agrees that parts of the film have aged poorly. And seeing which parts of it are still relevant or dated and how it speaks to some young people and not to others. Only after Allison has changed herself does a boy deign to kiss her. They wanted to take the ugly duckling and make her into a swan. Sheedy says that both she and Ringwald petitioned Hughes to change it so as to promote a less negative message.

So I ended up wearing this girly, pinkish kind of thing. The way Sheedy describes it, the women connected to the quartet by proxy of being in movies with them were sullied by association.

It was uncomfortable for quite a long time. 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 strength of her performances led directly to her film debut as Sean Penn 's naive-but-knowing girlfriend, "J.

That same year , 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 hit about college friends. Sign In. Edit Ally Sheedy. Showing all 44 items. Auditioned for the movie A League of Their Own but didn't get the role because she couldn't play baseball well enough.

Is the eldest of three children born to an advertising executive dad and a literary agent mom. Her mother is Charlotte Sheedy , a prominent New York literary agent.