Alison Elliott

Alison Elliott is an American actress who began in modeling before moving into film and television. She was born in San Francisco, spent part of her childhood in Tokyo, and later attended an independent arts high school in San Francisco. Modeling with Ford Models from age 14 led to her move to Los Angeles in 1989, where she played a teenage model on the sitcom Living Dolls. She became known for The Underneath (1995), The Spitfire Grill (1996), The Miracle Worker (2000) and Birth (2004), and her work in The Wings of the Dove (1997) brought Supporting Actress nominations from the Screen Actors Guild and the Boston Society of Film Critics as well as a win from the Las Vegas Film Critics Society. She played Virginia Jinny St. George in the BBC miniseries The Buccaneers (1995), took the part of Martha Bolton in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), and has narrated audiobooks.