Alison Eastwood
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Alison Eastwood (born May 22, 1972) is an American film director and actress.
Early life
Eastwood was born in 1972 in Santa Monica, California, to fitness instructor Margaret Neville Johnson and actor Clint Eastwood.<ref>birth reference results from CaliforniaBirthIndex.org</ref> She has a brother, Kyle, and six known paternal half-siblings, including Scott and Francesca.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
She attended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, and Stevenson School in Pebble Beach. She attended UC Santa Barbara, but did not graduate.<ref>Alison Eastwood - Facebook</ref>
Career
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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref>Eastwood's tip to daughter: take your vitamins from Reuters, September 16, 2007.</ref>
She has her own clothing line, called the Eastwood Ranch Apparel.<ref name="auto">Template:Cite web</ref> She is the founder of the Eastwood Ranch Foundation, a non-profit animal welfare organization.<ref name="auto"/>
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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
She directed the romantic drama film Battlecreek (2017), starring Bill Skarsgård, Paula Malcomson, and Claire van der Boom.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Template:N/A | 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<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> | Narrator | Documentary |
| 2017 | Battlecreek | Template:N/A | Director only |
| 2018 | The Mule | Iris |
References
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- 1972 births
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- Actors from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
- Actresses from Monterey County, California
- Actresses from Santa Monica, California
- American child actresses
- American fashion designers
- American people of Dutch descent
- American people of English descent
- American people of Irish descent
- American people of Scottish descent
- American women fashion designers
- American women film producers
- American film actresses
- Eastwood family
- Film directors from California
- Film producers from California
- Living people
- University of California, Santa Barbara alumni