| Alison Pill | |
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Pill at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International |
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| Born | Alison Courtney Pill November 27, 1985 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1997–present (screen acting) 2003–present (stage acting) |
Alison Courtney Pill[1] (born November 27, 1985) is a Canadian actress best known from her roles in Milk, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Midnight in Paris.
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Pill was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her father, a financier, is Estonian.[2][3] Pill attended Vaughan Road Academy. In 2006, she 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.
Pill is engaged to actor Jay Baruchel. Baruchel made their engagement public when he thanked his fiancée (Pill) during an acceptance speech at the Genie Awards in Ottawa, Canada.[4]
She is currently filming the HBO pilot of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom in Los Angeles, California.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | The New Ghostwriter Mysteries | Lucy | (1 Episode) |
| 1998 | Anatole | Paulette | (Unknown Episodes) |
| Fast Track | Alexa Stokes | (1 episode) | |
| PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal | Sophie Schulman | (1 Episode) | |
| The Last Don II | Bethany | (unknown episodes) | |
| Degas & the Dancer | Marie von Goetham | ||
| Stranger in Town | Hetty | ||
| 1999 | Locked in Silence | Lacey | |
| Redwall | Cornflower (voice) | (1999–2003) | |
| Dear America: A Journey to the New World | Remember Patience Whipple/Mem | ||
| What Katy Did | Katy | ||
| God's New Plan | Samantha Hutton | ||
| Different | Sally | ||
| Poltergeist: The Legacy | Paige | (1 Episode) | |
| The Life Before This | Jessica | ||
| Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Frog | Shapiro/Marfa | ||
| A Holiday Romance | Fern | ||
| 2000 | Redwall: The Movie | Cornflower (voice) | |
| Traders | Andrea Exter | (1 Episode) | |
| Skipped Parts | Chuckette Morris | (aka The Wonder of Sex in UK) | |
| The Dinosaur Hunter | Julia | ||
| The Other Me | Allana Browning | DCOM | |
| Baby | Larkin Malone | ||
| 2001 | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | Young Lorna Luft | aka Judy Garland: L'ombre d'une étoile (Canada: French title) |
| Midwives | Constance 'Connie' Danforth | ||
| What Girls Learn | Tilden | ||
| 2002 | The Pilot's Wife | Mattie Lyons | |
| Perfect Pie | Marie (age 15) | ||
| A.W.O.L. | Patient | (unconfirmed) | |
| 2003 | Fast Food High | Emma Redding | |
| Pieces of April | Beth Burns | ||
| An Unexpected Love | Samantha Mayer | a.k.a. This Much I Know | |
| 2004 | Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen | Ella Gerard | aka Bekenntnisse einer Highschool Diva (Germany) |
| The Crypt Club | Liesl | ||
| A Separate Place | Beth | ||
| Plain Truth | Katie Fisher | accused and disowned Amish girl | |
| 2005 | Dear Wendy | Susan | |
| 2006 | The Book of Daniel | Grace Webster | (8 episodes) |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Lisa Ramsey | (1 episode) Wrongful Life | |
| 2007 | Dan in Real Life | Jane Burns | |
| 2008 | Milk | Anne Kronenberg | |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Kelsey Levin | (1 episode) | |
| 2009 | The Awakening of Abigail Harris | Abigail Harris | |
| One Way to Valhalla | Dale | ||
| In Treatment | April | (Season 2 regular) | |
| 2010 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Kim Pine | Nominated—Detroid Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble |
| The Pillars of the Earth (TV miniseries) | Princess Maude | ||
| 2011 | Midnight in Paris | Zelda Fitzgerald | |
| Goon | Eva | ||
| 2012 | Nero Fiddled | Lillian | |
| The Newsroom | Maggie |