Alison Pill
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Alison Courtney Pill is a Canadian actress best known from her roles in Milk
, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
and Midnight in Paris
.
, Ontario, Canada. Her father, a financier, is Estonian. Pill attended Vaughan Road Academy
. In 2006, she starred as Grace Webster in the short-lived NBC
drama The Book of Daniel, and was nominated for a Tony Award
for her performance in Martin McDonagh
's The Lieutenant of Inishmore
. Pill had a major supporting role as campaign manager Anne Kronenberg
in the Oscar-winning 2008 film Milk
.
She recently starred as April, a college student who discovers she has cancer, in the HBO series In Treatment
. She played Annie Sullivan in the Broadway revival of The Miracle Worker
from February 12, 2010, to its closing date, April 4, 2010. In the same year, she appeared in the American film adaptation of the Canadian comic book series Scott Pilgrim
, portraying drummer Kim Pine. She learned to play the drums for the role, and also performs on the movie soundtrack.
Pill is engaged to actor Jay Baruchel
. Baruchel made their engagement public when he thanked his fiancée (Pill) during an acceptance speech at the Genie Awards in Ottawa, Canada.
She is currently filming the HBO pilot of Aaron Sorkin
's More As This Story Develops in Los Angeles, California.
Milk (film)
Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors...
, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a 2010 comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, based on the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The film is about Scott Pilgrim , a young Canadian musician, meeting the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers , an American delivery girl...
and Midnight in Paris
Midnight in Paris
Midnight in Paris is a 2011 romantic comedy-fantasy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The plot centers on a small group of Americans visiting the French capital for business and pleasure...
.
Life and career
Pill was born in TorontoToronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Ontario, Canada. Her father, a financier, is Estonian. Pill attended Vaughan Road Academy
Vaughan Road Academy
Vaughan Road Academy is a Toronto District School Board International Baccalaureate school in the Oakwood-Vaughan neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada. Vaughan Road is situated at the Vaughan Road and Winona Drive intersection close to Oakwood Avenue and southwest of Forest Hill. It works in...
. In 2006, she starred as Grace Webster in the short-lived NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
drama The Book of Daniel, and was nominated for a Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
for her performance in Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh is an Irish-British playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Although he has lived in London his entire life, he is considered one of the most important living Irish playwrights.-Life:...
's The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 2001.-Plot:...
. Pill had a major supporting role as campaign manager Anne Kronenberg
Anne Kronenberg
Anne Kronenberg is an American political administrator and LGBT rights activist. She is best known for being Harvey Milk's campaign manager during his historic San Francisco Board of Supervisors campaign in 1977 and his aide as he held that office until the assassinations of Milk and mayor George...
in the Oscar-winning 2008 film Milk
Milk (film)
Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors...
.
She recently starred as April, a college student who discovers she has cancer, in the HBO series In Treatment
In Treatment
In Treatment is an American HBO drama, produced and developed by Rodrigo Garcia, about a psychologist, 50-something Dr. Paul Weston, and his weekly sessions with patients, as well as those with his own therapist at the end of the week. The program, which stars Gabriel Byrne as Paul, debuted on...
. She played Annie Sullivan in the Broadway revival of The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker is a cycle of 20th century dramatic works derived from Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life. Each of the various dramas describes the relationship between Keller—a deafblind and initially almost feral child—and Anne Sullivan, the teacher who introduced her to...
from February 12, 2010, to its closing date, April 4, 2010. In the same year, she appeared in the American film adaptation of the Canadian comic book series Scott Pilgrim
Scott Pilgrim
Scott Pilgrim is a graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. It consists of six digest size black-and-white volumes, released between August 2004 and July 2010, by Portland-based independent comic book publisher Oni Press. It was later republished by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins...
, portraying drummer Kim Pine. She learned to play the drums for the role, and also performs on the movie soundtrack.
Pill is engaged to actor Jay Baruchel
Jay Baruchel
Jonathan Adam Saunders "Jay" Baruchel is a Canadian actor. He has had a successful career in comedy films, and has appeared in supporting roles in such box office successes as Million Dollar Baby, Knocked Up and Tropic Thunder, as well as starring in films like She's Out of My League, The Trotsky,...
. Baruchel made their engagement public when he thanked his fiancée (Pill) during an acceptance speech at the Genie Awards in Ottawa, Canada.
She is currently filming the HBO pilot of Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an Academy and Emmy award winning American screenwriter, producer, and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Social Network, and Moneyball.After graduating from Syracuse...
's More As This Story Develops in Los Angeles, California.
Stage career
- None of the Above, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
(2003) - The Distance From Here, New York City (2004)
- On The Mountain, New York City (2005)
- The Lieutenant of InishmoreThe Lieutenant of InishmoreThe Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 2001.-Plot:...
, New York City (2006) - Blackbird, New York City (2007)
- MauritiusMauritius (play)Mauritius is a play on Broadway which opened on October 4, 2007 at the Biltmore Theatre and closed November 25, 2007. Written by Pulitzer Prize for Drama-nominee Theresa Rebeck, it is her Broadway debut. It is about two sisters who inherit a stamp collection which might be worth a fortune. Many of...
, New York City (2007) - reasons to be prettyReasons to be prettyreasons to be pretty is a play by Neil LaBute, his first to be staged on Broadway. The plot centers on four young working class friends and lovers who become increasingly dissatisfied with their dead-end lives and each other...
, New York City (2008) - The Miracle WorkerThe Miracle WorkerThe Miracle Worker is a cycle of 20th century dramatic works derived from Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life. Each of the various dramas describes the relationship between Keller—a deafblind and initially almost feral child—and Anne Sullivan, the teacher who introduced her to...
, New York City (2010) - This Wide Night, New York City (2010)
- The House of Blue Leaves, New York City (2011)
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1997 | The New Ghostwriter Mysteries The New Ghostwriter Mysteries The New Ghostwriter Mysteries is a CBS television show that aired in 1997. It was loosely based on an earlier series on PBS called Ghostwriter... |
Lucy | (1 Episode) |
| 1998 | Anatole Anatole (TV series) Anatole is an animated children's television series based on the Anatole book series by Eve Titus. The series tells the story of Anatole, a mouse who lives in Paris. He works as a night watchman in a cheese factory. He has a wife, Doucette and a family of six little mice. It originally aired in... |
Paulette | (Unknown Episodes) |
| Fast Track | Alexa Stokes | (1 episode) | |
| PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction drama television series which was filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000... |
Sophie Schulman | (1 Episode) | |
| The Last Don II | Bethany | (unknown episodes) | |
| Degas & the Dancer | Marie von Goetham | ||
| Stranger in Town | Hetty | ||
| 1999 | Locked in Silence | Lacey | |
| Redwall Redwall (TV series) Redwall is a television series made by Canada-based Nelvana and France-based Alphanim and is based on the Redwall novels by Brian Jacques. The series currently spans three seasons, the first based on the first book Redwall, the second on Mattimeo and the third on Martin the Warrior... |
Cornflower (voice) | (1999–2003) | |
| Dear America: A Journey to the New World | Remember Patience Whipple/Mem | ||
| What Katy Did | Katy | ||
| God's New Plan | Samantha Hutton | ||
| Different | Sally | ||
| Poltergeist: The Legacy Poltergeist: The Legacy Poltergeist: The Legacy is a Canadian horror television series which ran from 1996 to 1999. The series tells the story of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy, and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers... |
Paige | (1 Episode) | |
| The Life Before This | Jessica | ||
| Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Frog | Shapiro/Marfa | ||
| A Holiday Romance A Holiday Romance A Holiday Romance is a 1999 film directed by Bobby Roth and starring Naomi Judd, Andy Griffith, and Gerald McRaney. This film has been released on DVD.-Cast:*Naomi Judd - Lily Waite*Andy Griffith - Jake Peterson*Gerald McRaney - Cal Peterson... |
Fern | ||
| 2000 | Redwall: The Movie | Cornflower (voice) | |
| Traders Traders (TV series) Traders is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1995 to 2000.-Overview:Although Global had locked up most of NBC's "Must See Thursday" situation comedies for their Thursday night broadcasts, they lost the rights to broadcast the medical drama ER... |
Andrea Exter | (1 Episode) | |
| Skipped Parts Skipped Parts Skipped Parts , is a movie based on Tim Sandlin's book of the same name. Skipped Parts is the first in a series of novels based on the lives of Maury and Sam, the second and final being Sorrow Floats and Social Blunders. The film is about a group of characters living in a small Wyoming town... |
Chuckette Morris | (aka The Wonder of Sex in UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... ) |
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| The Dinosaur Hunter | Julia | ||
| The Other Me The Other Me The Other Me is a 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie about a teenager who accidentally clones himself as a genius and ends up using his clone to pass school. The movie is the 23rd Disney Channel Original Movie and is based on the book Me Two by Mary C. Ryan.-Plot:Will Browning is a seventh grade... |
Allana Browning | DCOM | |
| Baby | Larkin Malone | ||
| 2001 | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows is a 2001 television film based on the memoirs of Lorna Luft, the daughter of Garland. The production is notable for its meticulous recreations of her films and concerts, and verisimilitudinous impressions of her by Tammy Blanchard and Judy Davis.The film,... |
Young Lorna Luft Lorna Luft Lorna Luft is an American television, stage, and film actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and Sid Luft, and the half-sister of singer and actress Liza Minnelli.-Biography:... |
aka Judy Garland: L'ombre d'une étoile (Canada: French title) |
| Midwives | Constance 'Connie' Danforth | ||
| What Girls Learn | Tilden | ||
| 2002 | The Pilot's Wife The Pilot's Wife The Pilot's Wife : A Novel is a 1998 novel by Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the third novel in Shreve's informal trilogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent... |
Mattie Lyons | |
| Perfect Pie Perfect Pie Perfect Pie is a play written by Judith Thompson, and first staged at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 2000, with Judith Thompson also directing.... |
Marie (age 15) | ||
| A.W.O.L. | Patient | (unconfirmed) | |
| 2003 | Fast Food High | Emma Redding | |
| Pieces of April Pieces of April Pieces of April is a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Hedges. The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.- Plot :... |
Beth Burns | ||
| An Unexpected Love | Samantha Mayer | a.k.a. This Much I Know | |
| 2004 | Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is a 2004 American Teen musical comedy film directed by Sara Sugarman and produced by Robert Shapiro and Matthew Hart for Walt Disney Pictures... |
Ella Gerard | aka Bekenntnisse einer Highschool Diva (Germany) |
| The Crypt Club | Liesl | ||
| A Separate Place | Beth | ||
| Plain Truth Plain Truth Plain Truth is a novel written by Jodi Picoult about a murder on an Amish farm, first published in 2001.-Plot summary:The book tells the story of how a dead infant found on an Amish farm shakes the entire community. As the police investigate the death, they discover that the baby was not stillborn,... |
Katie Fisher | accused and disowned Amish girl | |
| 2005 | Dear Wendy Dear Wendy Dear Wendy is a 2005 film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, and starring Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Mark Webber and Alison Pill among others.It is a co-production of Denmark, Germany, France and the UK.The script was written by Lars von Trier.... |
Susan | |
| 2006 | The Book of Daniel The Book of Daniel (TV series) The Book of Daniel is a television series broadcast on NBC. The network promoted it as a serious drama about Christians and the Christian faith, but it was controversial with some Christians. The show had been proposed for NBC's 2005 fall line-up, but was rescheduled as a 2006 midseason replacement... |
Grace Webster | (8 episodes) |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent Law & Order: Criminal Intent Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001, as the second spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama... |
Lisa Ramsey | (1 episode) Wrongful Life | |
| 2007 | Dan in Real Life Dan in Real Life Dan in Real Life is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Hedges, starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche.-Plot:Dan Burns is a newspaper advice columnist, a widower, and a controlling father to his children Jane, Cara and Lilly in the New Jersey suburbs. His column is in... |
Jane Burns | |
| 2008 | Milk Milk (film) Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors... |
Anne Kronenberg Anne Kronenberg Anne Kronenberg is an American political administrator and LGBT rights activist. She is best known for being Harvey Milk's campaign manager during his historic San Francisco Board of Supervisors campaign in 1977 and his aide as he held that office until the assassinations of Milk and mayor George... |
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| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer... |
Kelsey Levin | (1 episode) | |
| 2009 | The Awakening of Abigail Harris | Abigail Harris | |
| One Way to Valhalla | Dale | ||
| In Treatment In Treatment In Treatment is an American HBO drama, produced and developed by Rodrigo Garcia, about a psychologist, 50-something Dr. Paul Weston, and his weekly sessions with patients, as well as those with his own therapist at the end of the week. The program, which stars Gabriel Byrne as Paul, debuted on... |
April | (Season 2 regular) | |
| 2010 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a 2010 comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, based on the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The film is about Scott Pilgrim , a young Canadian musician, meeting the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers , an American delivery girl... |
Kim Pine | Nominated—Detroid Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble |
| The Pillars of the Earth (TV miniseries) The Pillars of the Earth (TV miniseries) The Pillars of the Earth is an eight part 2010 TV miniseries, adapted from Ken Follett's novel of the same name. It debuted in the U.S. on Starz and Canada on The Movie Network/Movie Central on July 23, 2010. Its UK premiere was on Channel 4 in October 2010 at 9pm... |
Princess Maude Empress Matilda Empress Matilda , also known as Matilda of England or Maude, was the daughter and heir of King Henry I of England. Matilda and her younger brother, William Adelin, were the only legitimate children of King Henry to survive to adulthood... |
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| 2011 | Midnight in Paris Midnight in Paris Midnight in Paris is a 2011 romantic comedy-fantasy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The plot centers on a small group of Americans visiting the French capital for business and pleasure... |
Zelda Fitzgerald Zelda Fitzgerald Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald , born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama, was an American novelist and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. She was an icon of the 1920s—dubbed by her husband "the first American Flapper"... |
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| 2011 | Goon Goon (film) Goon is a 2012 film comedy starring Seann William Scott directed by Michael Dowse. It depicts a nice but dimwitted man become the Enforcer for a minor league hockey team.-Plot:... |
Eva | |
| 2012 | Nero Fiddled | Lillian |
External links
- Alison Pill at Northernstars.ca
- Alison Pill profile in The New York Observer