Biography
Ally Sheedy is an American actress best known for her work in films such as Bad Boys, Oxford Blues, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, and Blue City. Sheedy garnered Saturn Award nods for Best Actress in WarGames, Fear, and Man’s Best Friend, and she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead in High Art.
Age
She is 62 years old as of 13 June 2023. She was born in 1962 in New York, New York, United States. Her real name is Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy.
Family – Education
Sheedy has a brother and a sister. Her mother, Charlotte (née Baum), is a writer and press agent who was active in the women’s and civil rights organizations, and her father, John J. Sheedy Jr., is a Manhattan advertising executive. Sheedy’s mother is Eastern European Jewish, and her father is of Irish Catholic descent. Her maternal grandmother was from Odessa, Ukraine. In 1971, her parents were divorced. She graduated in 1980 from Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School and the Bank Street School for Children in New York City.
When she was six years old, she began dancing with the American Ballet Theatre with the intention of pursuing a full-time career. She abandoned dancing, nevertheless, and began studying acting with Harold Guskin. She was twelve when she penned She Was Nice to Mice, a best-seller. In 1975, she made an appearance on the game show To Tell the Truth. She relocated to Los Angeles at the age of eighteen, enrolling in the University of Southern California’s drama program. Sheedy started her acting career while pursuing a BFA degree, which required three years of coursework.
Husband – Children
Sheedy dated Bon Jovi’s guitarist, Richie Sambora, for less than a year in the 1980s. She claimed in the Los Angeles Times that the romance pushed her to misuse narcotics, which Sambora rejected. Sheedy was admitted to the Hazelden Foundation in 1985 and received treatment for a sleeping pill addiction in the 1990s, which she used to inform her portrayal of a drug-addicted photographer in High Art.
Sheedy married actor David Lansbury on April 12, 1992. He is the nephew of Angela Lansbury and the son of Edgar Lansbury, the original producer of Godspell. Their son, Beckett, was born in 1994. Beckett is a trans man, and Sheedy claims she “learned a lot” during his transition.Sheedy stated in 2008 that she and Lansbury had filed for divorce.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m).
Single Drunk Female
She appeared as Carol, Samantha’s mother in the American comedy television series Single Drunk Female. Samantha Fink, an alcoholic, has just one chance to avoid incarceration following a humiliating public meltdown. She needs to stay sober and move back in with her demanding mother Carol. Samantha returns to the Boston region and attempts to make the best of her position. However, this is easier said than done. Samantha is confronted with the ghosts of her past, which led her to alcoholism. And then there’s Samantha’s mother, who was conspicuous by her absence when she was younger but now meddles in everything and gives her wise counsel. Samantha is initially hesitant to go on a new journey, but when her childhood best friend Brit reveals shocking news, Samantha realizes that her partying lifestyle cannot continue.
Psych
She had a recurrent role as a mad criminal, Mr. Yang, on the USA Network original series Psych, appearing in the episodes “An Evening with Mr. Yang”, “Mr. Yin Presents…”, “Yang 3 in 2D”, and (briefly) “Psych: The Musical”. Yang (also known as Ms. Rotmensen) is a serial killer who first appeared in “An Evening with Mr. Yang”. She reappeared in both “Mr. Yin Presents…” and “Yang 3 in 2D”. She was slain in “Psych: The Musical” while saving Shawn’s life. She is played by Ally Sheedy.
Mr. Yang is a serial murderer who murdered her first victim in 1995; her old partner, Mr. Yin, was also implicated. Over the next 14 years, she murdered two more people, but her name was never disclosed. Yang met Shawn when she was nine years old and they had a discussion. Yang persuaded Shawn’s mother to take a photo of them together, which ruined their relationship. Shawn did not recall the episode until 22 years later, but Yang grew attached to him, probably because his happiness introduced her to a stable household.
Yang’s narrative concludes in “Yang 3 in 2D”. It is revealed that Yin is her father, and while she frequently assisted him, she has never killed any of the victims herself. She never intended to be a serial murderer and preferred a life of family and friendship, much like Shawn’s. In the end, her father becomes her first real victim. Yang informs Shawn that she will remain in prison for the duration of the Yin/Yang killings, with no knowledge of life outside.
Movies
♦ 2016 – Little Sister
♦ 2016 – X-Men: Apocalypse
♦ 2014 – Sins of Our Youth
♦ 2014 – Fugly!
♦ 2010 – Welcome to the Rileys
♦ 2010 – Ten Stories Tall
♦ 2009 – Perestroika
♦ 2009 – Life During Wartime
♦ 2008 – Harold
♦ 2007 – Day Zero
♦ 2007 – The Junior Defenders
♦ 2007 – Steam
♦ 2005 – Shooting Livien
♦ 2004 – Noise
♦ 2003 – A Good Night to Die
♦ 2003 – Shelter Island
TV Shows
♦ 2022–2023 – Single Drunk Female
♦ 2014 – Not with My Daughter (a.k.a. Client Seduction)
♦ 2009 – Citizen Jane
♦ 2009–2011/13 – Psych
♦ 2008–2009 – Kyle XY
♦ 2007 – CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
♦ 2006 – The Veteran
♦ 2003 – Life on the Line
♦ 2003 – The Dead Zone
♦ 2002 – Once and Again
♦ 2002 – The Interrogation of Michael Crowe
♦ 2001 – Oz
♦ 2001 – The Warden
♦ 2001 – Strange Frequency
♦ 1999 – Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge
♦ 1998 – The Fury Within
♦ 1997 – Country Justice
♦ 1997 – Buried Alive II
♦ 1996 – The Outer Limits