Alison Pill
Date of birth: 1985-11-27
Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 알리슨 필, 艾莉森·皮爾, آلیسون پیل
Biography
Alison Pill is a Canadian actress and a former child actress. Pill began her career at age 12, appearing in numerous films and television series. She transitioned to adult roles and her breakthrough came with the television series The Book of Daniel (2006). That same year, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2006). Pill had prominent roles in the films Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), Plain Truth (2004), Milk (2008), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), Hail, Caesar! (2016), Vice (2018), the television series In Treatment (2009), The Pillars of the Earth (2010), The Newsroom (2012–2014), American Horror Story: Cult (2017), Star Trek: Picard (2020–2022), Devs (2020), and Them (2021).
Movie Credits
Milk
2008-11-05
The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Franci
Pieces of April
2003-10-17
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment mil
Dear Wendy
2005-02-04
In a blue-collar American town, a group of teens bands together to form the Dandies, a gang of gunsl
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
2004-02-17
After moving to New Jersey, Lola bags a coveted role in a school play, which earns her the wrath of
The Same Storm
2022-10-14
Snapshots of the tumults of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dan in Real Life
2007-10-26
Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brot
The Other Me
2000-09-08
When Will Browning is threatened with military summer school if he doesn't get better grades, he dec
The Dinosaur Hunter
2000-08-05
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
One Way to Valhalla
2009-01-01
Bo Durant, a volatile, working-class gearhead, sees himself trapped in a world with few possibilitie
Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation
2010-08-10
Scott Pilgrim vs. The Animation is an animated short based on Bryan Lee O'Malley's "Scott Pilgrim" f
To Rome with Love
2012-04-20
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young
Plain Truth
2004-10-04
An unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child.
Goon
2012-01-06
Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling, is approached by a minor league ho
A Separate Peace
2004-09-12
Four friends with one dark secret they could never outrun.
Midnight in Paris
2011-05-11
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriou
What Katy Did
1999-01-01
A 13-year-old girl is more than her widowed father can handle at times, even with help from her aunt
An Unexpected Love
2003-03-24
An unhappily married housewife and mother of two children seperates from her husband and gets a new
Baby
2000-10-08
A couple finds a baby on their doorstep with a note asking them to temporarily keep it. They take th
Snowpiercer
2013-08-01
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class syst
The Pilot's Wife
2002-04-14
Kathryn is distraught at the news of her husband's death delivered by a stranger from the airline fo
Midwives
2001-04-02
It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together w
Young Werther
2024-12-05
Charming, passionate, totally irresponsible young novelist Werther is sent to the city on an errand
Denise
2012-07-04
A girl helps a guy untangle his web of lies.
God's New Plan
1999-02-16
Fact-based story about a woman facing her impending death and forced to let her baby's nurse become
Perfect Pie
2002-09-11
On the invitation of her childhood best friend Patsy McCann née Willets, famed opera singer Francesc
Cooties
2014-10-10
A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of m
Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends
2014-04-24
You are cordially invited to join Brett Gelman and his Hollywood friends for a lively night of dinin
Eric LaRue
2025-04-04
Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frus
The Life Before This
1999-09-15
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhoo
Locked in Silence
1999-01-01
A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the kill
Goon: Last of the Enforcers
2017-03-17
During a pro lockout, Doug "The Thug" Glatt is injured and must choose whether to defend his team ag
What Girls Learn
2001-10-14
Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Zoom
2016-03-31
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each liv
Fast Food High
2003-02-25
Fast Food High tells the story of Emma Redding, a young fast food restaurant employee who musters he
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011-07-05
A series of 40 art films created by artist David Michalek featuring performances of theater artists
Miss Sloane
2016-11-25
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control leg
Hail, Caesar!
2016-02-05
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer
Woman in Deep
2016-03-17
A woman calls a suicide prevention hotline and is put on hold.
Santa Baby
2012-12-19
A Christmas Short
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Water Crisis
2020-07-20
A majority of the Scott Pilgrim cast reunite for a read through of the screenplay on behalf of Water
Trap
2024-07-31
A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark
Different
1999-01-01
A young woman was left mentally disabled after a car crash twenty years previously, a condition whic
Vice
2018-12-25
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in t
Ideal Home
2018-06-21
A couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.
A Holiday Romance
1999-12-08
A superintendent, trying to save his high school's troubled finances, falls in love with a teacher w
The Emperor's Newest Clothes
2018-11-15
Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale gets a colorful, music-filled makeover in the whimsical speci
Degas and the Dancer
1998-01-01
A struggling Degas finds inspiration for his art in Marie, a young ballerina. Degas helps Marie tap
Goldstar, Ohio
2010-03-23
Four families and a chief of police recount the day marine casualty officers came to their respectiv
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
1999-10-08
Jacob Two Two Meets The Hooded Fang is about a young boy who strives to be heard. He is nicknamed "T
The Most Magnificent Thing
2019-09-28
A regular girl tries to make something magnificent but the creative process proves more challenging
The Making of 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'
2010-11-09
A hyperkinetic behind the scenes look at the film.
Skipped Parts
2000-06-06
A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.
The Line
2020-07-08
A new documentary play crafted from firsthand interviews with New York City medical first responders
Stranger in Town
1998-10-18
A 13-year-old boy, whose single mother moved her family from the big city to a small town, begins to
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2010-08-12
As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend;
All My Puny Sorrows
2022-04-15
The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one
Cover Up
2016-10-09
A tale of love, death, and makeup.
Redwall: The Movie
2000-02-01
Redwall is a compelling tale of fantasy, courage and adventure; the fable of a daunting quest to rec
Uncle Vanya 2025
A new version of the play starring Steve Carell & Alison Pill