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Alexandra Elizabeth "Ally" Sheedy (born June 13, 1962)
is an American screen and stage actress, as well as the
author of two books. She is known for her roles in the
"Brat Pack" films The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's
Fire.
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Sheedy started acting in local stage
productions as a teenager. After appearing in several
made-for-television films in 1981, as well as three episodes of the
television series Hill Street Blues, she made her feature film debut
in Bad Boys (1983), starring Sean Penn, where she played the
humiliated rape victim girlfriend of Penn's character. The 1980s
were her most active period, with roles in popular films such as
WarGames, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, Short Circuit, and
Maid to Order.
Throughout most of the 1990s, Sheedy appeared in many television
films. 1998's High Art, a well-reviewed independent film about a
romance between two women, was an important film in her career. She
identified with the character of photographer "Lucy Berliner" so
much that she took a plane at her own expense to participate in an
audition and has said that this character is the closest one she has
played to herself.
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 the episode ""Leapin' Lizards" of C.S.I.
in which she played a woman who murdered her boyfriend's wife while
mixed up in an estranged cult. On March 3, 2008, Sheedy was
introduced as the character Sarah, in the ABC Family show
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