Alison Lohman
Biography
Alison Lohman is an American actress who began as a child performer at a theater in Palm Desert, playing Gretl in The Sound of Music and winning a Desert Theater League award for the title role in Annie, then relocated to Los Angeles in 1997 for minor film parts. Television work on Tucker and Pasadena preceded her breakthrough in White Oleander (2002), after which she appeared in Matchstick Men and Big Fish (both 2003) and collected honors from the Hollywood Film and Young Hollywood Awards. She voiced the title character in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (2005) and later took the lead in Drag Me to Hell (2009), directed by Sam Raimi, which earned nominations from the Detroit Film Critics Society, the MTV Movie Awards and the Saturn Awards. She stepped away from acting after 2009 and taught acting classes, with small parts in Urge and Officer Downe (both 2016) and The Vatican Tapes (2015).
47years old
Turns 48 on September 18in 310 days
- Born Palm Springs
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Alison Marion Lohman
Movie Career
- Films
- 16
- Career span
- 16 years2000 to 2016
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First role
Lohman was nine when she took the part of Gretl in The Sound of Music at the McCallum Theater in Palm Desert. Two years later, the Desert Theater League named her Most Outstanding Actress in a Musical for playing the title role in Annie.
A role that slipped away
Lohman provided the voice of the title character in the English dub of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, which came out in 2005. She won the part over actress Natalie Portman.
A role that slipped away
Lohman took the lead in Sam Raimi's 2009 horror film Drag Me to Hell after Elliot Page dropped out because of scheduling conflicts.
Early training
Lohman was offered a full scholarship to New York University but turned it down to pursue an acting career directly.
Beyond film
Lohman performed locally as a child singer, and one of those performances was at a benefit event in Palm Springs, where she sang alongside Frank Sinatra.
Alison Lohman movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Mark Neveldine directed two of these films. Five actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Albert Finney's page
Robin Wright's page
Jarvis W. George's page
All films by Mark Neveldine
Box office
What Alison Lohman's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$569 million
12 of the 16 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 16 films: 12 worldwide figure; 1 never in cinemas; 3 figure not found.
- 12Worldwide figure
- 1Never in cinemas
- 3Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$196M34.4% of the total
- 2$123M21.7% of the total
- 3$91M16.1% of the total
- 4$66M11.5% of the total
- 5$41M7.2% of the total
- 6$22M3.8% of the total
- 7$21M3.7% of the total
- 8$3.5M0.6% of the total
$5.8 millionfrom the other 4 films with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total
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