Only 15 at the time, she also performed off-Broadway and on a series of after-school specials.
Signed by an agent who caught the show, she was sent out on television commercials, immediately. It was an appearance on " The Mike Douglas Show (1961) to promote her book, however, that brought Sheedy work as a performer. Magazine, which requested an article about her mother and herself. The Village Voice asked her to review movies and the New York Times wanted her to review children's books. Meanwhile, her book brought her requests from several publications. When she discovered that to stay with dancing meant staying with starvation diets, she shifted her focus to acting for good. 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".
Although it proved a springboard to an acting career, Sheedy's strongest memories of childhood remain those of "dancing and doing plays". The result, "She Was Nice to Mice", was published by McGraw-Hill and became an instant bestseller. While at New York's Bank Street School, twelve-year-old Ally Sheedy wrote about a mythical encounter between Queen Elizabeth I and an inquisitive mouse. She is of Russian Jewish (mother) and Irish and German (father) descent. Ally Sheedy was born in New York City, to Charlotte (Baum), a press agent and writer, and John J.
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