PILL, Alison 1985–

PERSONAL

Full name, Alison Elizabeth Pill; born November 27, 1985, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Avocational Interests: Music of the band Coldplay.

Addresses:

Agent—Kenny Goodman, William Morris Agency, 151 El Camino Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Manager—Joanna Burstein, The Burstein Company, 15304 Sunset Blvd., Suite 208, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272.

Career:

Actress and voice performer. Performer with the Toronto Children's Chorus, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; also narrator of audiobooks for children.

Awards, Honors:

Young Artist Award nomination, Young Artist Foundation, best supporting young actress in a television movie or pilot, 2000, for Degas and the Dancer; Film Award, Burbank International Children's Film Festival, best child actress performance, 2000, and Gemini Award nomination, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, best performance in a children's or youth program or series, 2003, both for The Dinosaur Hunter; Young Artist Award nomination (with others), best ensemble in a television movie, 2001, for The Other Me; Young Artist Award nomination, best leading young actress in a television movie or special, 2002, for What Girls Learn.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Voice of Paulette, Anatole (animated), YTV and CBS, beginning 1998.

Voice of Cornflower Fieldmouse, Redwall (animated; also known as Brian Jacques' Redwall; later known as Mattimeo: A Tale of Redwall and Martin the Warrior: A Tale of Redwall), Teletoon, c. 1999–2000, PBS, c. 2001–2002.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Bethany, The Last Don II (also known as Mario Puzo's The Last Don II), CBS, 1998.

Young Lorna Luft, Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (also known as Judy Garland: L'ombre d'une etoile), ABC, 2001.

Mattie Lyons, The Pilot's Wife, CBS, 2002.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Hetty, Stranger in Town, Showtime, 1998.

Fern, A Holiday Romance (also known as One More White Christmas and A Song for the Season), CBS, 1999.

Katy Carr, What Katy Did (also known as La revanche de Katy), [Canada], 1999.

Lacey, Locked in Silence, Showtime, 1999.

Sally Reed, Different, Lifetime, 1999.

Samantha Hutton, God's New Plan (also known as No Higher Love), CBS, 1999.

Allana Browning, The Other Me, The Disney Channel, 2000.

Larkin Malone, Baby, TNT, 2000.

Voice of Cornflower Fieldmouse, Redwall: The Movie (animated), Teletoon and PBS, c. 2000.

Constance "Connie" Danforth, Midwives, Lifetime, 2001.

Tilden, What Girls Learn, Showtime, 2001.

Emma Redding, Fast Food High, CTV, 2003.

Samantha Mayer, An Unexpected Love (also known as This Much I Know), Lifetime, 2003.

Beth, A Separate Peace, Showtime, 2004.

Katie Fitch, Plain Truth, Showtime, 2004.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Marie von Goetham, Degas and the Dancer, HBO Family, 1998.

Remember "Mem" Patience Whipple, Dear America: A Journey to the New World (also known as Dear America: A Journey to the New World; The Story of Remember Patience Whipple, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620), HBO, 1999.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Girl in museum scene, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, syndicated, c. 1995.

Lucy, "Moving Parts," The New Ghostwriter Mysteries, CBS, 1997.

Sophie Schulman, "The Night of the Setting Sun," Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal, CanWest Global Television and syndicated, 1998.

Paige, "Forget Me Not," Poltergeist: The Legacy, Showtime and Sci–Fi Channel, 1999.

"Hawks," Traders, CanWest Global Television and Lifetime, 2000.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

Appeared as a dancer in the pilot Judy & David's Music Shop, [Canada].

Film Appearances:

Jessica, The Life before This, 1999.

Shapiro/Marfa, Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang, Oasis International, 1999.

Chuckette Morris, Skipped Parts (also known as The Wonder of Sex), Trimark Pictures, 2000.

Julia Creath, The Dinosaur Hunter, Credo Releasing, 2000.

Marie at the age of fifteen (some sources cite Francesca), Perfect Pie (also known as La voie du destin), Odeon Films, 2002.

Beth Burns, Pieces of April, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer/United Artists, 2003.

Ella Gerard, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Buena Vista, 2004.

Liesl, The Crypt Club, Crypt Club Productions, 2004.

Susan, Dear Wendy, Trust Film Sales, 2004.

Stage Appearances:

None of the Above, New Georges Theatre Company, Ohio Theatre, New York City, 2003.

Jenn, The Distance from Here, Manhattan Class Company, The Duke, New York City, 2004.

It's a Dry Heat (staged reading), Primary Stages, West Forty–Fifth Street Space, New York City, 2004.

On the Mountain, Playwrights' Horizons Theatre Main-stage, New York City, 2005.

Appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Opera Atelier.

OTHER SOURCES

Electronic:

Tribute Publishing,http://www.tribute.ca, November 15, 2004.