Ally Sheedy Net Worth

Ally Sheedy's Quotes

• It's so unfair. The term "Brat Pack" is so condescending.
• I started writing because I used to tell stories to the children who lived nearby and when I was six I started writing them down. I write poetry and plays, too, and writing is important to me. It is important for me to express my feelings and thoughts. If I'm feeling angry or wonderful or upset or happy I just write it out and reread the feelings over and over again. When I'm depressed I read something I wrote when I was happy and I can feel a great lift in my spirits. I love writing!
• I am really close to my parents. My mother and my father do not live together. We children spend half of the week at one house and half of the week at the other house. We have been living as we do for six years. I get along well with my brother Patrick Sheedy, who is ten, and my sister Meghan Sheedy, who is thirteen. We have an iguana and rabbit as pets.
• All I care about for Christmas and 2003 is health and happiness for my daughter.
• [inteview with Alissa Quart, 1998] I had to leave [Hollywood]. The roles I wanted weren't there.

Interesting Facts about Ally Sheedy

1. Auditioned for the movie A League of Their Own (1992) but didn't get the role because she couldn't play baseball well enough.
2. Is the eldest of three children born to an advertising executive dad and a literary agent mom.
3. Treated for addiction to prescription medication.
4. Her mother is Charlotte Sheedy, a prominent New York literary agent.
5. Turned down the lead role in Wild Orchid (1989).
6. Auditioned for the Molly Ringwald role in Sixteen Candles (1984).
7. Turned down the Kelly McGillis role in Top Gun (1986).
8. The addiction treatment Sheedy received was for sleeping pills. This helped her choose to participate in the film High Art (1998), in which she played a once- famous photographer who had also descended into drug addiction.
9. Was the first cisgender female to play the transgender rock star Hedwig in the stage musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch".
10. Went to Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City with Lauren-Marie Taylor, who starred in Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). They are still friends today.
11. Was one of the nine original members of the 1980s "brat pack", along with Judd Nelson, Demi Moore, Anthony Michael Hall, Sean Penn, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez and Andrew McCarthy.
12. Danced with the American Ballet Theatre from about the time she was six and was rapidly pursuing a career, but when puberty caused her breasts to fill out and all the starvation diets caused her an eating disorder, she gave up dance and pursued acting full-time.
13. Wrote a best selling novel at the the tender age of 12.
14. Became pregnant while filming Talia Shire's One Night Stand (1995).
15. 3/15/94: Daughter Rebecca Elizabeth born.
16. Was a bridesmaid at Demi Moore's and Bruce Willis' wedding.
17. Ex-daughter-in-law of Edgar Lansbury.
18. Studied drama at the University of Southern California, where one of her classmates was Michele Greene.
19. 1975: Appeared on TV game show To Tell the Truth (1969) as author of "She Was Nice To Mice" (as Alexandra Sheedy) at age 13.
20. She has played rape victims twice, first in her film debut Bad Boys (1983) and again in Macon County Jail (1997). Later, she played a detective investigating a rape in Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge (1999).