The film "Sid and Nancy" starred what actor and actress in the title roles?

The film Sid and Nancy starred Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious and Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen. Alex Cox’s 1986 British biographical film follows the destructive relationship between the Sex Pistols bassist and the American groupie who became his partner.

Oldman played Vicious during the period when the Sex Pistols rose to prominence and later struggled with heroin addiction. Webb portrayed Spungen, whose volatile relationship with Vicious became one of punk rock’s most notorious stories. Their time together culminated in Spungen’s death at New York’s Hotel Chelsea in 1978.

The film was written by Alex Cox and Abbe Wool and is also known as Sid & Nancy: Love Kills. It combines real events with stylized, fictionalized sequences, so it is better understood as a dramatic interpretation than as a documentary record.

A common mix-up is to confuse the actors with the real musicians. Gary Oldman was not Sid Vicious, and Chloe Webb was not Nancy Spungen; they portrayed the couple. Courtney Love also appeared in the film, but she did not play Nancy.