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Biography #2 (for Dan in Real Life)

Alison Pill has established herself as an intelligent, talented actress with a repertoire that rivals most actresses twice her age. Her feature-film work includes Pieces of April, directed by Peter Hedges; Perfect Pie; the Disney comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen; and the independent features Dear Wendy and One Way to Valhalla. She participated in the 2004 Sundance Filmmaker's Lab, where she workshopped Paper Man.

Alison starred in the NBC series The Book of Daniel as the drug-dealing daughter of Aidan Quinn's Episcopalian minister, appeared as a wheelchair-bound victim of spina bifida in Law &

Order: Criminal Intent and played the grief-stricken child of Farrah Fawcett and Keith Carradine in Baby. Her other numerous television appearances include Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows opposite Judy Davis, Midwives with Sissy Spacek, Lifetime's Plain Truth with Mariska Hargitay, and Showtime's What Girls Learn with Scott Bakula and Elizabeth Perkins.

Alison currently can be seen on Broadway in Theresa Rebeck's Mauritius, with Bobby Cannavale, and recently starred opposite Jeff Daniels in David Harrower's worldwide success Blackbird. She received a 2006 Tony Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for The Lieutenant of Inishmore, written by Martin McDonagh. Other New York stage appearances include The Distance From Here, written by Neil LaBute (for which she won the 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance), and Christopher Shinn's On the Mountain (2005 Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress). She made her New York theater debut in 2003 in None of the Above.

Bio courtesy Buena Vista for "Dan in Real Life" (10-Nov-2007)


Biography #3 (for Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen)

Alison Pill has established herself as an intelligent, levelheaded, talented actress. With a repertoire that rivals most actresses twice her age, her unforgettable performances have garnered praise from critics.

Pill most recently starred in the feature films Pieces of April with Katie Holmes and Patricia Clarkson and she has just completed work on Thomas Vinterberg's Dear Wendy. Other film credits include Perfect Pie with Wendy Crewson and The Life Before This.

In 2000, Pill was awarded the Best Young Actress Award for her work in The Dinosaur Hunter at the Burbank Festival. Pill has also received Golden Sheaf and Young Artist Award nominations for portrayal of a young dancer in Degas and the Dancer.

Pill has also appeared in numerous films for television including Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, Baby, Midwives, Fast Food High, What Girls Learn, The Other Me, What Katy Did, Locked in Silence, and Dear America: A Journey to the New World. She has also lent her voice to the animated series Redwall, Anatole, and Braceface.

Bio courtesy Disney for "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" (06-Aug-2004)


Biography #4 (for Pieces of April)

Alison Pill is set to star in the Thomas Vinterberg film Dear Wendy and has recently completed work on Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. Pill has garnered much critical acclaim for her wide variety of roles in projects such as Baby, Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, Midwives, Song for the Season, Louis Braille, and The Life Before This, which was shown at the Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals.

In November of 2000, Pill was awarded the Best Young Actress Award for her work in The Dinosaur Hunter at the Burbank Festival. The film Degas and the Dancer earned Pill a Golden Sheaf and Young Artist Award nomination.

Pill's small screen experience includes the telefilms Fast Food High, What Girls Learn, The Other Me, What Katy Did, Locked in Silence, and Dear America: A Journey to the New World, as well as lending her voice to the animated series Redwall, Anatole, and Braceface.

Bio courtesy United Artists for "Pieces of April" (01-Jan-2000)