Alison Pill
Alison Courtney Pill (born November 27, 1985 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian actress .
Life and accomplishments
Pill attended Vaughan Road Academy in Toronto. For the role in the film Degas and the Dancer she was nominated for the Young Artist Award in 2000. A year later there was another nomination for the Young Artist Award for the role in the television comedy The Second Me . She won the 2000 Burbank International Children's Film Festival Award for the lead role in the adventure film The Dinosaur Hunter . In 2002 she was nominated for the Young Artist Award for the role in the drama Stormy Times , in which she starred alongside Elizabeth Perkins .
In the film drama Murder in the Reeds , she played an Amish girl who is accused of murdering her own baby and is defended by lawyer Ellie Harrison ( Mariska Hargitay ). She starred in the drama Dear Wendy , alongside Jamie Bell and Bill Pullman . In the biopic Milk she played the lesbian campaign manager of Harvey Milk ( Sean Penn ).
Pill also works at the theater; she appeared in 2006 in The Lieutenant of Inishmore at the Lyceum Theater in New York City .
In 2018 she was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.
From May 2011 to February 2013 she was engaged to the also Canadian actor Jay Baruchel . In January 2015 she got engaged to Joshua Leonard , and at the end of May 2015 they married.
Filmography (selection)
- 1997: The New Ghostwriter Mysteries (TV series, episode 1x05)
- 1998: Degas and the Dancer
- 1999: God's New Plan (TV movie)
- 2000: Baby - Glück auf Zeit ( Baby , TV movie)
- 2000: The Dinosaur Hunter
- 2000: The second I (The Other Me)
- 2001: Stormy Times (What Girls Learn)
- 2001: Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (TV movie)
- 2002: Dangerous Double Life - The Pilot's Wife ( The Pilot's Wife , Movie made for TV)
- 2003: Pieces of April - A Day with April Burns (Pieces of April)
- 2003: An Unexpected Love
- 2004: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen)
- 2004: A Separate Peace (TV movie)
- 2004: Murder in the Reeds (Plain Truth)
- 2005: Dear Wendy
- 2005: The Book of Daniel (TV series, 8 episodes)
- 2006: Criminal Intent ( Law & Order: Criminal Intent , TV series, episode 5x15)
- 2007: Dan - in the middle of life! (Dan in Real Life)
- 2008: Milk
- 2008: CSI: Vegas ( CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , TV series, episode 9x07)
- 2009: In Treatment - Der Therapeut ( In Treatment , TV series, 7 episodes)
- 2010: Goldstar, Ohio (short film)
- 2010: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)
- 2010: The Pillars of the Earth ( The Pillars of the Earth , miniseries, 9 episodes)
- 2011: Midnight in Paris
- 2011: Portraits in Dramatic Time
- 2011: Goon - No movie for pussies (Goon)
- 2012: To Rome With Love
- 2012–2014: The Newsroom (TV series, 25 episodes)
- 2013: Snowpiercer
- 2014: Cooties
- 2015: Zoom
- 2016: Hail, Caesar!
- 2016: The Family (TV series, 12 episodes)
- 2016: The Invention of Truth (Miss Sloane)
- 2017: American Horror Story (TV series)
- 2018: Vice - The Second Man (Vice)
- 2020: Star Trek: Picard (TV series, 10 episodes)
- 2020: Devs (Miniseries, 8 episodes)
Web links
- Alison Pill in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Alison Pill in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Alison Pill on the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Alison Pill in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
- ↑ http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/alison-pill-jay-baruchel-call-off-engagement-201343
- ↑ ´Lenka Hladikova: The Newsroom: Alison Pill married fellow actors . In: Serienjunkies.de . May 26, 2015. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pill, Alison |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pill, Alison Elizabeth (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Ontario , Canada |