Alison Eastwood Explained

Alison Eastwood
Birth Date:22 May 1972
Birth Place:Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Years Active:1980–present
Occupation:Actress
Spouse:
    Father:Clint Eastwood
    Relatives:Kyle Eastwood (brother)
    Scott Eastwood (half-brother)
    Francesca Eastwood (half-sister)

    Alison Eastwood (born May 22, 1972) is an American film director and actress.

    Early life

    Eastwood was born on May 22, 1972, in Santa Monica, California, to Margaret Neville Johnson and Clint Eastwood.[1] She has a brother, Kyle, and six known paternal half-siblings: Laurie, Kimber, Scott, Kathryn, Francesca, and Morgan.[2]

    Eastwood attended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, and Stevenson School in Pebble Beach. She attended UC Santa Barbara, but did not graduate.[3]

    Career

    Eastwood landed some professional acting roles during her childhood and preadolescent years, making an uncredited movie debut at the age of seven in Bronco Billy (1980). 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 Vogue (U.S. edition). She posed nude in the February 2003 issue of Playboy.[4]

    Since then, Eastwood has again appeared onscreen. Her film credits include "Art Student" in her father’s film Absolute Power (1997), as Mandy Nichols in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), 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), Once Fallen (2010), and The Mule (2018).

    Eastwood made her directorial debut with Rails & Ties (2007), starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden.[5]

    She has her own clothing line, called the Eastwood Ranch Apparel.[6] She is the founder of the Eastwood Ranch Foundation, a non-profit animal welfare organization.[6]

    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.[7]

    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.[8]

    Eastwood directed the romantic drama film Battlecreek (2017), starring Bill Skarsgård, Paula Malcomson, and Claire van der Boom.

    Filmography

    YearTitleRoleNotes
    1980Bronco BillyChild at orphanageUncredited
    1980Any Which Way You CanKidUncredited
    1984 TightropeAmanda Block
    1997Absolute PowerArt StudentUncredited
    1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and EvilMandy Nicholls
    1998 Just a Little Harmless SexLaura
    1998 Suicide, the ComedyAmanda
    1999Breakfast of ChampionsMaria Maritimo
    1999 Friends & LoversLisa
    1999Black and WhiteLynn DombrowskyTV film
    2000The SpringSophie Weston TV film
    2000If You Only KnewSamantha
    2002Poolhall JunkiesTara
    2002The BendSue MorrisShort
    2002Power PlayGabriella St. John
    2004I'll Be Seeing YouPatricia CollinsTV film
    2004They Are Among UsFinley TV film
    2005FlatbushShellmanShort
    2005 The Lost AngelDetective Billie Palmer
    2005 Don't TellRaphael
    2006Lesser EvilKaren MaxTV film
    2006 How to Go Out on a Date in QueensKaren
    2006Waitin' to LiveHarriett Williams
    2007Rails & TiesDirector
    2007One Long NightWendy
    2010Once FallenKat
    2011HenryLauraShort
    2012Animal InterventionHerselfDocoseries
    2013Shadow PeopleSophie Lacombe
    2014Finding HarmonySam Colter
    2014C.R.U.Allison Doyle-Ewansiha
    2015Unity[9] NarratorDocumentary
    2017BattlecreekDirector
    2018The MuleIris

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Book: Schickel, Richard. Clint Eastwood: A Biography. 1996. Knopf Doubleday. 0679749918. 286.
    2. Web site: Clint Eastwood's 8 Children: Everything to Know. People. August 8, 2023.
    3. Book: Clint: The Life and Legend. Patrick McGilligan. St. Martin's Press. 0312290322. 2002. 455. registration.
    4. Book: Playboy Magazine ~ February 2003 (Alison Eastwood) . July 23, 2020.
    5. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKHO58218620070915 Eastwood's tip to daughter: take your vitamins
    6. Web site: Alison Eastwood: Finding Forever Homes Beyond Hollywood. February 6, 2020. September 26, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200926082627/https://tailsandtoys.com/tail-of-the-week/alison-eastwood-finding-forever-homes-beyond-hollywood/. dead.
    7. News: Alison Eastwood Is Engaged. People.com. December 3, 2012.
    8. Web site: Matthew Robinson . Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil - Original Soundtrack | Songs, Reviews, Credits . AllMusic . November 18, 1997 . June 9, 2020.
    9. Dave McNary. Documentary 'Unity' Set for Aug. 12 Release with 100 Star Narrators. Variety. May 1, 2015. April 22, 2015.