27 Facts About Alison Pill

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Alison Pill was born on November 27,1985 and is a Canadian actress.

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Alison Pill transitioned to adult roles and her breakthrough came with the television series The Book of Daniel.

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Alison Pill attended Vaughan Road Academy, in its Interact program, designed for studying dance, music, athletics, and theatre.

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Alison Pill decided to become an actor when she was 10 years old.

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Alison Pill's mother tried to discourage Pill by getting her a job as a background performer on the series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.

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Alison Pill played roles in four more TV movies before the age of fourteen.

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Alison Pill landed the 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.

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That year, Alison Pill played Sissy Spacek's daughter in the TV flick Midwives.

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Alison 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.

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Alison Pill landed a supporting role in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen in 2003, starring Lindsay Lohan.

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Alison Pill ventured off into stage acting, with the New York City staging of None of the Above as the first item in her theatre credentials.

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Since graduating from high school, Alison Pill moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, but continued to work in movies such as Dan in Real Life in 2007.

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Alison Pill had a major supporting role as campaign manager Anne Kronenberg in the 2008 film Milk.

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Alison Pill later played Kim Pine in the movie Scott Pilgrim vs the World, as well as in Scott Pilgrim vs the Animation.

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Alison Pill portrayed Empress Maud in the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth.

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Alison Pill has worked with Woody Allen twice, as Zelda Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris and as Hayley in To Rome with Love.

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Alison Pill has starred in short films including Denise in 2012 with Chris Messina and Santa Baby; she sang and danced in Santa Baby.

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Alison Pill starred in Bong Joon-ho's post-apocalyptic film Snowpiercer, alongside Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton, which was released in 2013.

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In Zoom, Alison Pill played Emma, an aspiring comic book artist.

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Alison Pill starred in Goon: Last of the Enforcers as Eva Glatt, Glatt's love interest in first movie Goon, now married to Glatt.

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Alison Pill was part of the cast of The Family as Willa Warren.

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In 2016, Alison Pill co-starred with Jessica Chastain in the EuropaCorp thriller Miss Sloane.

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Alison Pill won Best Actress in a Canadian Film by Vancouver Film Critics Circle for her role in the movie.

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Alison Pill was part of the TV series Them, playing Betty Wendell.

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Since 2020, Alison Pill has played Dr Agnes Jurati in CBS All Access's Star Trek series, Star Trek: Picard, centered on an older Jean-Luc Picard, the Starfleet captain from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Alison Pill was engaged to actor Jay Baruchel from 2011 to 2013.

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Alison Pill married actor Joshua Leonard May 24,2015, having become engaged that January.