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Alison Pill
Biography
Alison Pill has segued effortlessly between the stage and big and small screens over an impressive career. A Tony, Outer Critics, Lucille Lortel, and Drama League nominee, Pill has played pivotal roles in three "Best Picture" Academy Award nominees. Her proven ability to take on and transform into a diverse tapestry of characters has cemented her place as one of the most talented actors working today.

Recently, Pill completed season one of the upcoming FX series DEVS from Alex Garland. Also, she was recently seen in the Oscar-nominated biographical film Vice, written and directed by Adam McKay, opposite Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Steve Carrell. Most recently, she starred on Broadway in the Tony-nominated production of Three Tall Women written by Edward Albee, directed by Joe Mantello, opposite Glenda Jackson and Laurie Metcalf.

Pill's film credits include Miss Sloane, Hail Caesar!, Snowpiercer, Goon, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Milk, Dan in Real Life, Dear Wendy, and Pieces of April. Her television work includes Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story: Cult on FX, the ABC drama The Family, the acclaimed Aaron Sorkin HBO series The Newsroom, the HBO drama In Treatment, The Book of Daniel, and Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.

On stage, Pill starred opposite Ben Stiller in House of Blue Leaves and Edie Falco in This Wide Night and with Abigail Breslin in Broadway's revival of The Miracle Worker. Her other theatre credits include Wait Until Dark, Reasons to be Pretty, Mauritius, and Blackbird, for which she received Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, and The Drama League Award nominations. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in The Lieutenant of Inishmore and for a Lucille Lortel Award for On the Mountain. She won The Drama Desk Award for "Outstanding Ensemble" in the U.S. premiere of The Distance from Here.