Alison Pill
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Pill at the 2013 Golden Globes
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Born | Alison Pill November 27, 1985 Toronto, Canada |
Alma mater | Vaughan Road Academy |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1997–present |
Spouse(s) | Joshua Leonard (m. 2015) |
Alison Pill (born November 27, 1985)[1][2] is a Canadian actress. A former child actress, Pill began her career at age twelve, 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), Milk (2008), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) and Midnight in Paris (2011), and the television series In Treatment (2009), The Pillars of the Earth (2010) and The Newsroom (2012–14).
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Early life
Pill was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her father, a financier, is Estonian.[3][4] Pill attended Vaughan Road Academy,[5] where she enrolled in the "Interact" program, designed for students interested in dance, music, athletics, and theatre.[6]
Career
1997-2007
She decided to involve in acting career when she was 10 years old. As a member of the Toronto Children's Chorus, she was chosen to narrate one of their performances. Her mother tried to discourage Alison by getting her a job as a background performer on the series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. By the time she was 11, she'd played a guest role on an episode of the kids' series The New Ghostwriter Mysteries. At 12, she landed roles in two TV movies and a mini-series, a guest appearance on the TV series PSI Factor and voiced a character on an animated series. After roles in two more television movies, she landed her first feature film—a small budget Canadian movie called The Life Before This in 1999, followed by the role of Jacobs older sister Marfa in Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang. Pill played parts in four more TV movies before the age of fourteen. [7]
The next year, she landed a small role in Skipped Parts in 2000 starring Drew Barrymore and Mischa Barton, then appeared in four more TV movies and features that year, including playing Farrah Fawcett's daughter in the TNT network movie Baby and a lead role in the Canadian film The Dinosaur Hunter, which was originally intended to be shown at a dinosaur museum and on a provincial education channel, but which made its way to the Burbank International Film Festival, winning Pill an award for Best Child Actress. She landed the plum role of young Lorna in the ABC-TV biopic Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows in 2001, based on the memoir by Garland's daughter, Lorna Luft. That year, Pill also played Sissy Spacek's daughter in the TV flick Midwives. [8]
In 2003, she played Katie Holmes' sister in the indie feature Pieces of April. Pill won the lead in the CTV-TV movie Fast Food High, about a teenager who gets a job at a fast food restaurant and tries to set up a union. She also landed a supporting role in the Toronto-filmed Disney feature Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen in 2004, starring Lindsay Lohan. Pill ventured off into stage acting, with the New York City staging of None of the Above as the first item in her theater credential. This was followed by The Distance From Here, On the Mountain, Blackbird, Mauritius. [9] In 2006, she starred as Grace Webster in the short-lived NBC drama The Book of Daniel. That same year, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Mairead in Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore.[10] Because of her busy work schedule, Pill's schooling was done through a program for youngsters in the business. Since graduating from high school, Pill moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, but continues to work in movies such as Dan in Real Life in 2007.
2008-present
Pill had a major supporting role as campaign manager Anne Kronenberg in the Oscar-winning 2008 film Milk.
In 2009, she perfoming with Erin Hill & her Psychedelic Harp playing the Twilight Zone-inspired "Meredith Moon" and "The Real North Pole" sci-fi Christmas Harp; [11] she was cast as April on In In Treatment. She later played Kim Pine in the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, as well as on Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation. She portrayed Empress Maud in the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth. In Theatre, Actresses Abigail Breslin and Pill starring in Broadway's "The Miracle Worker"; She has worked with Woody Allen twice, first as Zelda Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris and Hayley in To Rome with Love. [12]
She star some short films like Denise in 2012 with Chris Messina, christmas music Santa Baby with Baruchel, where she sing and dance, Cover Up with Jason Ritter and Woman in Depp, A woman calls a suicide prevention hot line and is put on hold with her husband Joshua. [13]
New Adaptation of Wait Until Dark, starring Pill as a blind woman who must fend for her life; She also starred in the film Snowpiercer, alongside Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton, which was released in 2013. From 2012 until its ending in 2014, she appeared in Aaron Sorkin's HBO series The Newsroom as Maggie Jordan. Cooties stars Elijah Wood and Pill discuss the film's blend of horror and comedy; In Zoom, Pill is Emma, an aspiring comic book artist; In Goon: Last of the Enforcers as Eva Glatt, Glatt's love interest in first movie Goon, now married to Glatt. At present, she is part of the cast of The Family as Willa Warren.
Personal life
Pill was engaged to actor Jay Baruchel from 2010 to 2013. Baruchel made their engagement public when he thanked his fiancée (Pill) during an acceptance speech at the Genie Awards in Ottawa, Canada.[14] Baruchel alluded to their break-up in a Twitter posting on February 16, 2013.[15] Pill became engaged to actor Joshua Leonard in January 2015.[16] They were married on May 24, 2015 after a four month long engagement.[17]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1998 | You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Camp Out Party | Friend #2 | |
1998 | Degas & the Dancer | Marie van Goethem | TV movie |
1998 | Stranger in Town | Hetty | TV movie |
1999 | Locked in Silence | Lacey | TV movie |
1999 | God's New Plan | Samantha Hutton | TV movie |
1999 | Different | Sally | TV movie |
1999 | The Life Before This | Jessica | |
1999 | Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang | Shapiro/Marfa | |
1999 | A Holiday Romance | Fern | TV movie |
2000 | Redwall: The Movie | Cornflower | Voice only; TV movie |
2000 | Skipped Parts | Chuckette Morris | |
2000 | The Dinosaur Hunter | Julia Creath | TV movie |
2000 | The Other Me | Allana Browning | TV movie |
2000 | Baby | Larkin Malone | TV movie |
2001 | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | Young Lorna Luft | TV movie |
2001 | Midwives | Constance Danforth | TV movie |
2001 | What Girls Learn | Tilden | TV movie |
2002 | A.W.O.L. | Patient | Short film |
2002 | The Pilot's Wife | Mattie Lyons | TV movie |
2002 | Perfect Pie | Marie (age 15) | |
2003 | Pieces of April | Beth Burns | |
2003 | Fast Food High | Emma Redding | |
2003 | An Unexpected Love | Samantha Mayer | TV movie |
2004 | Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen | Ella Gerard | |
2004 | The Crypt Club | Liesl | Short film |
2004 | Dear Wendy | Susan | |
2004 | What Katy Did | Katy Carr | TV movie |
2004 | A Separate Peace | Beth | TV movie |
2004 | Plain Truth | Katie Fisher | TV movie |
2007 | Dan in Real Life | Jane Burns | |
2008 | Milk | Anne Kronenberg | |
2009 | The Awakening of Abigail Harris | Abigail Harris | Short film |
2009 | One Way to Valhalla | Dale | |
2010 | Goldstar, Ohio | Kendra Harper | Short film |
2010 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Kim Pine | |
2011 | Midnight in Paris | Zelda Fitzgerald | |
2011 | Portraits in Dramatic Time | Alison Pill | |
2011 | Goon | Eva | |
2012 | To Rome with Love | Hayley | |
2012 | Denise | Denise | Short film |
2012 | Santa Baby | Alice | Short film |
2013 | Snowpiercer | Teacher | |
2014 | Cooties | Lucy McCormick | |
2015 | Zoom | Emma | |
2016 | Woman in Deep | Birdie | Short film |
2016 | Cover Up | Short film | |
2016 | Goon: Last of the Enforcers | Eva Glatt | In post-production |
2016 | Normcore | Filming | |
2017 | Miss Sloane | In pre-production | |
2017 | Octavio is Dead | [18] |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1997 | The New Ghostwriter Mysteries | Lucy | Episode: "Moving Parts" |
1998 | Fast Track | Alexa Stokes | Episode: "Real Time" |
1998 | Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal | Sophie Schulman | Episode: "The Night of the Setting Sun" |
1998 | The Last Don II | Bethany | Episode: "1.1" |
1998 | Anatole | Paulette | Voice only; 5 episodes |
1999 | Redwall | Cornflower | Voice only; 13 episodes |
1999 | Dear America: A Journey to the New World | Various characters | TV short |
1999 | Poltergeist: The Legacy | Paige | Episode: "Forget Me Not" |
2000 | Traders | Andrea Exter | Episode: "Hawks" |
2006 | The Book of Daniel | Grace Webster | Main role; 8 episodes |
2006 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Lisa Ramsey | Episode: "Wrongful Life" |
2008 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Kelsey Murphy | Episode: "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda" |
2009 | In Treatment | April | Main role; 7 episodes |
2010 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation | Kim Pine | Voice only; TV short |
2010 | The Pillars of the Earth | Princess Maude | Main role; 8 episodes |
2012–14 | The Newsroom | Maggie Jordan | Main role; 25 episodes |
2014 | 7p/10e | Alison | Episode: "Day 16" |
2014 | Therapy | Lucy | Episode: "1.1" |
2014 | Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends | Herself | TV short |
2016 | The Family | Willa Warren | Main role; upcoming series |
Theatre
Year | Title | Role | Venue |
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2003 | None of the Above | Jamie | Ohio Theatre [19] |
2004 | The Distance From Here | Jenn | MCC Theater [20] |
2005 | On The Mountain | Jaime | Playwrights Horizons [21] |
2006 | The Lieutenant of Inishmore | Mairead | Lyceum Theatre [22] |
2007 | Blackbird | Una | Manhattan Theater Club [23] |
2007 | Mauritius | Jackie | Biltmore Theatre [24] |
2008 | reasons to be pretty | Steph | Lucille Lortel Theatre |
2010 | The Miracle Worker | Annie Sullivan | Circle in the Square Theatre [25] |
2010 | This Wide Night | Marie | Peter Jay Sharp Theatre [26] |
2011 | The House of Blue Leaves | Corrinna Stroller | Walter Kerr Theatre [27] |
2013 | Wait Until Dark | Susan | Geffen Playhouse [28] |
2015 | The House That Jake Built | – | Iama Theatre Company [29] |
Music videos
Year | Artist | Song |
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2004 | Lindsay Lohan | "Drama Queen (That Girl)" |
2010 | Owen Pallett | "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt" |
2010 | Nick Casey | "Medicine" |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
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2000 | Burbank International Children's Film Festival | Best Child Actress Performance | The Dinosaur Hunter | Won |
Young Artist Award | Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot – Supporting Young Actress | Degas and the Dancer | Nominated | |
2001 | Best Ensemble in a TV Movie (Shared with cast) | The Other Me | Nominated | |
2002 | Best Performance in a TV Movie or Special – Leading Young Actress | What Girls Learn | Nominated | |
2003 | Gemini Awards | Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series | The Dinosaur Hunter | Nominated |
2004 | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Play (Shared with cast) | The Distance From Here | Nominated |
Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Ensemble Performance | Won | ||
2005 | Lucille Lortel Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress | On the Mountain | Nominated |
2006 | Tony Award | Best Featured Actress in a Play | The Lieutenant of Inishmore | Nominated |
2007 | Outer Critics Circle Award | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Blackbird | Nominated |
2008 | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Lead Actress | Nominated | |
2009 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (Shared with cast) | Milk | Nominated |
Online Film & Television Association Award | Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | In Treatment | Nominated | |
2011 | Best Original Song (Shared with cast) | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Nominated | |
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Ensemble Acting (Shared with cast) | Midnight in Paris | Nominated | |
Drama League Award | Distinguished Performance | This Wide Night | Nominated | |
Gemini Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series | The Pillars of the Earth | Won | |
2013 | Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award | Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film | Goon | Nominated |
2014 | Virtuoso Award | Best Breakthrough Performances | Cooties | Won |
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- ↑ "Exclusive: Alison Pill, Jay Baruchel Call Off Engagement" Us Weekly. Retrieved March 4, 2013
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External links
- Alison Pill at the Internet Movie Database
- Alison Pill at Northernstars.ca
- Alison Pill profile in The New York Observer
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