Alison Elliott

Alison Elliott (born May 19, 1970 in San Francisco , California ) is an American actress .

Life and accomplishments

Elliott lived in Tokyo for several years as a child . Upon returning to San Francisco, she attended high school with an arts profile. She worked as a photo model from the age of 14 .

Elliott made her actress debut in 1989 on the television series Who's The Boss? subsequently Sam in the model agency . In the comedy Always Trouble for Dojo , she starred alongside Thora Birch , Harvey Keitel and Mimi Rogers . In the film drama Wings of the Dove she played the role of the wealthy American Millie Theale , who is to be persuaded by her friend Kate Croy ( Helena Bonham Carter ) to marry her lover Merton Densher ( Linus Roache ). For this role, she won the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award and the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award in 1998, as well as was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award .

Elliott took on one of the leading roles in the drama Red Betsy . In the film drama Birth (2004) she was seen on the side of Nicole Kidman . In the comedy Griffin & Phoenix , she played one of the bigger roles alongside Amanda Peet and Dermot Mulroney .

Filmography (selection)

• 1989: Who's the boss here? ( Who's the Boss?, TV series, episode 5x19 Sam in the model agency )
• 1991: Pretty Hattie's Baby
• 1994: Always Trouble About Dojo (Monkey Trouble)
• 1994: Wyatt Earp - The Life of a Legend (Wyatt Earp)
• 1996: The Story of the Spitfire Grill (The Spitfire Grill)
• 1997: Wings of the Dove (The Wings of the Dove)
• 2000: The Miracle Worker - Miracles (The Miracle Worker)
• 2003: Red Betsy
• 2003: A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time)
• 2004: Birth
• 2006: Griffin & Phoenix
• 2007: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
• 2015: Counting for Thunder
• 2016: Rage  (The Phenom)
• 2017: Century Women ( 20th Century Women)

Web links

• Alison Elliott in the Internet Movie Database (English)