Alison Elizabeth Pill[Alison Pill Biography (1985-)] (born November 27, 1985) is a
Canadian film, television and theatre actress.
Private life
She was born in
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada and attended
Vaughan Road Academy, a high school in Toronto.
Career
In 2006, Pill 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. It has been announced that she will be playing
Annie Sullivan on Broadway in
The Miracle Worker in March 2010.