Nancy Kerrigan is a former figure skater and actress. She took up figure skating at age six. She did not start private lessons until age eight and won her first competition, the Boston Open, at age nine.

She won bronze medals at the 1991 World Championships and the 1992 Winter Olympics. Later, she won silver medals at the 1992 World Championships and the 1994 Winter Olympics, and she was the 1993 US National Figure Skating Champion. In January 1994, an assailant used a police baton to strike Kerrigan on her landing knee; the attacker was hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding. The attack injured Kerrigan, but she quickly recovered. Harding and Kerrigan both participated in the 1994 Winter Olympics, but after the Games, Harding was permanently banned from competitive figure skating. At the Olympics, Kerrigan won the silver medal in a controversial showdown with gold medal winner Oksana Baiul. She then started touring and performed with several ice skating troupes that included Champions on Ice and Broadway on Ice.

Kerrigan was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2004. In 2017, she was a contestant on season 24 of Dancing with the Stars.