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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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| 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 on May 22, 1972, in Santa Monica, California, to Margaret Neville Johnson and Clint Eastwood. [1] She has a brother, Kyle, and six known paternal half-siblings: Laurie, Kimber, Scott, Kathryn, Francesca, and Morgan. [2]
Eastwood 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, making an uncredited movie debut at the age of seven in Bronco Billy (1980). 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 Vogue (U.S. edition). She posed nude in the February 2003 issue of Playboy . [4]
Since then, Eastwood has again appeared onscreen. Her film credits include "Art Student" in her father’s film Absolute Power (1997), as Mandy Nichols in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), 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), 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.[ citation needed ] 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]
Eastwood 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2007 | One Long Night | Wendy | |
| 2010 | Once Fallen | Kat | |
| 2011 | Henry | Laura | Short |
| 2012 | Animal Intervention | Herself | Docoseries |
| 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 |
| 2018 | The Mule | Iris |
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