Alison Elliott Biography
Born: May 19, 1970
Rising above the negative stereotypes attached to models-turned-actresses, Alison Elliott has proved her talent as the latter in an eclectic mix of leading roles. Raised in San Francisco, Elliott worked as a Ford model, but decided that acting was her calling and was soon cast on a short-lived TV series. Though she won a supporting role in Lawrence_Kasdan and Kevin_Costner's downbeat interpretation of Western legend Wyatt_Earp (1994), Elliott began to forge a career in independent films when she was cast as the central femme in Steven_Soderbergh's neo-noir The_Underneath (1994). Elliott's star performance as the reformed ex-con in The_Spitfire_Grill (1996) earned rave reviews, but despite winning the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, the film was less than stellar at the box office. Elliott showed that she could also handle period roles in Iain_Softley's adaptation of the Henry_James novel -The Wings of the Dove (1997). As ailing heiress Millie Theale, Elliott managed to be ethereal and ingenuous without being cloying, matching Softley's emphasis on the story's complex emotional ambiguities. Sticking to her non-Hollywood ways, Elliott next starred in The_Eternal (1998), directed by resolute iconoclast Michael_Almereyda. Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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