Alison Eastwood | |
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 Eastwood in 2012 | |
| Born | May 22, 1972 Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1980–present |
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| Father | Clint Eastwood |
| Relatives | Kyle Eastwood (brother) Scott Eastwood (half-brother) Francesca Eastwood (half-sister) |
Alison Eastwood (born May 22, 1972) is an American film director and actress.
Eastwood was born in 1972 in Santa Monica, California, to fitness instructor Margaret Neville Johnson and actor Clint Eastwood. [1] She has a brother, Kyle, and six known paternal half-siblings, including Scott and Francesca. [2]
She attended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, and Stevenson School in Pebble Beach. She attended UC Santa Barbara, but did not graduate. [3]
Eastwood landed some professional acting roles during her childhood and preadolescent years. Her acting in the 1984 thriller Tightrope earned her a Young Artist Award nomination. She has also worked as a runway and magazine model in Paris, posing for several European fashion magazines and the American edition of Vogue . She posed nude in the February 2003 issue of Playboy . [4]
Since then, Eastwood has again appeared onscreen. Film credits include Just a Little Harmless Sex (1998), Black and White (1999), Friends & Lovers (1999), If You Only Knew (2000), Power Play (2002), Poolhall Junkies (2003), I'll Be Seeing You (2004), One Long Night (2007), Once Fallen (2010), and The Mule (2018).
Eastwood made her directorial debut with Rails & Ties (2007), starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden. [5]
She has her own clothing line, called the Eastwood Ranch Apparel. [6] She is the founder of the Eastwood Ranch Foundation, a non-profit animal welfare organization. [6]
On the small screen, she appeared in the Nat Geo Wild TV program Animal Intervention. She has also been featured on the reality TV series Chainsaw Gang as one of the sculptor's girlfriends. The sculptor is Stacy Poitras, whom she married on March 15, 2013. [7]
Eastwood's cover of "Come Rain or Come Shine", which she is shown performing part of in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil , is included on the movie's soundtrack. [8]
She directed the romantic drama film Battlecreek (2017), starring Bill Skarsgård, Paula Malcomson, and Claire van der Boom.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1980 | Bronco Billy | Child at orphanage | Uncredited |
| 1980 | Any Which Way You Can | Kid | Uncredited |
| 1984 | Tightrope | Amanda Block | |
| 1997 | Absolute Power | Art Student | Uncredited |
| 1997 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Mandy Nicholls | |
| 1998 | Just a Little Harmless Sex | Laura | |
| 1998 | Suicide, the Comedy | Amanda | |
| 1999 | Breakfast of Champions | Maria Maritimo | |
| 1999 | Friends & Lovers | Lisa | |
| 1999 | Black and White | Lynn Dombrowsky | TV film |
| 2000 | The Spring | Sophie Weston | TV film |
| 2000 | If You Only Knew | Samantha | |
| 2002 | Poolhall Junkies | Tara | |
| 2002 | The Bend | Sue Morris | Short subject |
| 2002 | Power Play | Gabriella St. John | |
| 2004 | I'll Be Seeing You | Patricia Collins | TV film |
| 2004 | They Are Among Us | Finley | TV film |
| 2005 | Flatbush | Shellman | Short subject |
| 2005 | The Lost Angel | Detective Billie Palmer | |
| 2005 | Don't Tell | Raphael | |
| 2006 | Lesser Evil | Karen Max | TV film |
| 2006 | How to Go Out on a Date in Queens | Karen | |
| 2006 | Waitin' to Live | Harriett Williams | |
| 2007 | Rails & Ties | — | Director only |
| 2007 | One Long Night | Wendy | |
| 2010 | Once Fallen | Kat | |
| 2011 | Henry | Laura | Short subject |
| 2012 | Animal Intervention | Herself | Docuseries |
| 2013 | Shadow People | Sophie Lacombe | |
| 2014 | Finding Harmony | Sam Colter | |
| 2014 | C.R.U. | Allison Doyle-Ewansiha | |
| 2015 | Unity [9] | Narrator | Documentary |
| 2017 | Battlecreek | — | Director only |
| 2018 | The Mule | Iris |
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