Stacey Nelkin

Nelkin was raised in New York City in a Jewish family. She attended Stuyvesant High School.

Acting:

Nelkin starred as Bonnie Sue Chisholm in four episodes of the CBS western miniseries The Chisholms (1979). When the miniseries resumed in 1980, she was up for the role in the miniseries but turned it down to take a role as Candy on Up the Academy. Delta Burke starred in the role of Bonnie Sue instead of Stacey.

She appeared in the horror film Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) as Ellie Grimbridge.

Around the same time, Nelkin was scheduled to appear in the film Blade Runner. She had been cast as Mary, a sixth Nexus-6 replicant that escapes from "off-world" and comes to Earth, but budget constraints resulted in her part being cut from the film early in the period of principal photography. Before being cast as Mary, she had done a screen test for the role of Pris but the role ultimately went to Daryl Hannah. Nelkin's screen test appears on Disc 4 of the collector's edition DVD set. Nelkin has made guest appearances in several TV series, including The Paper Chase, The Waltons, CHiPs, The A-Team, Eight Is Enough, 1st & Ten and Hunter.

Her best-known TV role was on the soap opera Generations (1990) as Christy Russell.

She starred in the 2022 horror film, The Shed after responding to a posting about a movie that was going to be shot locally, and calling the number on the poster.

Relationship expert:

Nelkin is a self-styled "relationship expert" and has her own YouTube channel and a website. She wrote a book called You Can't Afford to Break Up: How an Empty Wallet and a Dirty Mind Can Save Your Relationship. For a time, she was a frequent guest on the program Fox & Friends.

Substance abuse professional:

In 2008, Nelkin began a career in drama therapy and today is a substance abuse professional and Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC).

In February 2016, Nelkin began treating dually diagnosed individuals with mental health and substance abuse issues through the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services Program (OASAS), since serving as an intake and CASAC counselor at The Bridge, a New York-based $65 million agency that provides housing and behavioral health services to 4,000 New Yorkers annually.

Woody Allen's film Manhattan (1979) was inspired by his relationship with Nelkin, whom Allen met when she was 16 on the set of his earlier film Annie Hall (from which her bit part was later cut). Their relationship began when Allen was 42 and Nelkin was 17, the age of consent in New York. The pair remained longtime friends; Allen later cast Nelkin as Rita in Bullets Over Broadway (1994).

Nelkin married Marco Greenberg in 1998; the couple have three children. She was married to actor Barry Bostwick from 1987 to 1991. She has been married three times.