Alison Eastwood (born May 22, 1972) is an American actress. After three uncredited roles between 1980 and 1997, she appeared as Mandy, the love interest of
John Cusack
John Paul Cusack (; born June 28, 1966)(28 June 1996)Today's birthdays ''Santa Cruz Sentinel'', ("Actors John Cusack is 30") is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and political activist. He is a son of filmmaker Dick Cusack, and his ol ...
in ''
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
''Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'' is a non-fiction novel by John Berendt. The book, Berendt's first, was published in 1994 and follows the story of an antiques dealer on trial for the murder of a male prostitute. Subtitled ''A Savannah S ...
'' (1997).
Early life
Eastwood was born on May 22, 1972, in
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ...
, the daughter of Margaret Neville Johnson and actor-director
Clint Eastwood
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series '' Rawhide'', he rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "''Doll ...
. She has a brother,
Kyle
Kyle or Kyles may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Kyle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Ireland
* Kyle, County Laois
* Kyle, County Wexford
Scotland
* Kyle, Ayrshire, area of Scotland which stretched across parts of modern-day East Ayrshire and South Ayrshir ...
, and six known paternal half-siblings: Laurie, Kimber,
Scott, Kathryn,
Francesca
Francesca is an Italian female given name, derived from the Latin male name ''Franciscus'' meaning 'the Frenchman' It is widely used in most Romance languages, including Italian language, Italian, French language, French and Catalan language, Cata ...
, and Morgan.
Eastwood attended
Santa Catalina School
Santa Catalina School is a private school in California founded by Sister Margaret Thompson and the Dominican Order in 1950. Situated on a 36-acre hacienda-style campus, the Upper School is an all-girls boarding school which also accepts local stu ...
in
Monterey, California
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, and
Stevenson School
Stevenson School (also known as Robert Louis Stevenson School and abbreviated as RLS) is a coeducational, private school for boarding and day students in preschool through twelfth grade. Its high school and Pre-K through eighth-grade campuses are ...
in
Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach is an unincorporated community on the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey County, California. The small coastal residential community of mostly single-family homes is also notable as a resort destination, and the home of the golf course ...
. In 1990, aged 18, Eastwood enrolled at
UC Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the Un ...
to study acting; she did not graduate.
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
''Bronco Billy'' is a 1980 American Western comedy-drama film starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke. It was directed by Eastwood and written by Dennis Hackin.
Plot
Bronco Billy McCoy (Clint Eastwood) is a stuntman performing in front of a mea ...
'' (1980). Her acting in the 1984 thriller ''
Tightrope
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'' earned her a
Young Artist Award
The Young Artist Award (originally known as the Youth in Film Award) is an accolade presented by the Young Artist Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1978 to honor excellence of youth performers, and to provide scholarships for young ...
nomination. She has also worked as a runway and magazine model in Paris, posing for several European fashion magazines and ''
Vogue
Vogue may refer to:
Business
* ''Vogue'' (magazine), a US fashion magazine
** British ''Vogue'', a British fashion magazine
** ''Vogue Arabia'', an Arab fashion magazine
** ''Vogue Australia'', an Australian fashion magazine
** ''Vogue China'', ...
'' (U.S. edition). She posed nude in the February 2003 issue of ''
Playboy
''Playboy'' is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother.
K ...
''.
Since then, Eastwood has again appeared onscreen. Her film credits include ''
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
''Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'' is a non-fiction novel by John Berendt. The book, Berendt's first, was published in 1994 and follows the story of an antiques dealer on trial for the murder of a male prostitute. Subtitled ''A Savannah S ...
'' (1997), ''
Just a Little Harmless Sex
''Just a Little Harmless Sex'' is a 1999 American romantic sex comedy film which revolves around a stranded motorist (and prostitute)'s offer to perform oral sex on a monogamous man who stops to help her. The unlikely good Samaritan must telep ...
'' (1998), ''
Black and White
Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white in a continuous spectrum, producing a range of shades of grey.
Media
The history of various visual media began with black and white, and as technology improved, altered to color. ...
'' (1999), ''
Friends & Lovers'' (1999), ''If You Only Knew'' (2000), ''
Power Play
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Sports
* Power play (sporting term), a sporting term used in various games
* Powerplay (cricket), a rule concerning fielding restrictions in one-day international cricket
* Power play (cur ...
'' (2002), ''
Poolhall Junkies
''Poolhall Junkies'' is a 2002 drama, thriller, and sports film co-written, starring, and directed by Mars Callahan.
The film also features Alison Eastwood, Michael Rosenbaum, Rick Schroder, Rod Steiger (in his final film role), Chazz Palminteri, ...
'' (2003), ''
I'll Be Seeing You'' (2004), ''
Once Fallen
''Once Fallen'' is a 2010 crime film starring Brian Presley, Taraji P. Henson, and Ed Harris. Filming took place in Los Angeles, California.
Plot
Chance (Brian Presley) returns home from a half decade in jail determined to change his life. He tri ...
'' (2010), and ''
The Mule'' (2018).
Eastwood made her directorial debut with ''
Rails & Ties
''Rails & Ties'' is a 2007 American drama film directed by Alison Eastwood and written by Micky Levy. It tells the story of a young boy and his mentally-ill widowed mother who commits suicide in her car by parking on a railroad track. The boy conf ...
'' (2007), starring
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor. His films include the musical-drama film '' Footloose'' (1984), the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller '' JFK'' (1991), the legal drama '' A Few Good Men'' (1992), t ...
and
Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress. She is the recipient of accolades including an Academy Award and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for a Critics' Choice Movie Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards.
Born ...
.
She has her own clothing line, called the ''Eastwood Ranch Apparel''.
She is the founder of the Eastwood Ranch Foundation, a non-profit animal welfare organization.
On the small screen, she appeared in the
Nat Geo Wild
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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.
Eastwood's cover of "
Come Rain or Come Shine
"Come Rain or Come Shine" is a popular music song, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was written for the Broadway musical '' St. Louis Woman'', which opened on March 30, 1946, and closed after 113 performances.
Chart perf ...
", which she is shown performing part of in ''Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'', is included on the movie's soundtrack.
Eastwood directed the romantic drama film ''
Battlecreek
''Battlecreek'' is a 2017 American romantic drama film starring Bill Skarsgård, Paula Malcomson and Claire van der Boom, and directed by Alison Eastwood. It is about a young man with a rare skin disease that forces him to avoid sunlight. He meet ...
'' (2017), starring
Bill Skarsgård
Bill Istvan Günther Skarsgård (; born 9 August 1990) is a Swedish actor, producer, director, writer, voice actor, and model. He is best known for portraying Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the supernatural horror films '' It'' (2017) and ''It C ...
,
Paula Malcomson
Paula Malcomson (born 1 June 1970) is a Northern Irish actress. She is sometimes credited as Paula Williams. She is known as Trixie in ''Deadwood'' (2004-2006), Maureen Ashby in ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2010), and as Abby Donovan in ''Ray Donovan'' ...
, and
Claire van der Boom
Clair or Claire may refer to:
*Claire (given name), a list of people with the name Claire
*Clair (surname)
Places
Canada
* Clair, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of Haut-Madawaska
* Clair Parish, New Brunswick
* Pointe-Claire, Que ...
.
Filmography
References
External links
Eastwood Ranch Foundation*
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1972 births
Living people
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Santa Monica, California
American child actresses
American fashion designers
American women fashion designers
People from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
American film actresses
Film producers from California
Eastwood family
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
Film directors from California
American women film producers
Clint Eastwood