Alison Marion Lohman was born on September 18, 1979 in Palm Springs, California. She is an American actress.

A fresh-faced ingenue who has excelled at playing attractive, if troubled, characters, Alison Lohman began her acting career like many aspiring performers, by putting on plays in her family's backyard in her hometown of Palm Springs, California. She grew up in a family with no showbiz connections - her father is a custom home builder and her mother owned a french bakery. At age nine, she landed her first professional role as one of the Von Trapp children in a local production of "The Sound of Music" and within two years had graduated to playing the carrot-topped title role in the musical "Annie".

Lohman made her film acting debut in a small role in the fantasy thriller "The Thirteenth Floor" (1999) and had roles in indies like "White Boy" and "The Auteur Theory" (both 1999) as well as the festival-screened "Delivering Milo" (2001) and "Alex in Wonder" (2001). On the small screen, she enjoyed a recurring role on The WB's short-lived family drama "Safe Harbor" (1999-2000) and made her series debut as the enticing girl-next-door in the equally short-lived "Tucker" (NBC, 2000).

Lohman returned to series work as the inquisitive teenage daughter in a wealthy Southern California family that has numerous secrets on the primetime serial "Pasadena" (2001). The rising starlet also solidified her status when she won the plum part of Michelle Pfeiffer's daughter in the screen adaptation of the popular bestseller "White Oleander" (2002).

Her last roles include Matchstick Men (2003), Big Fish (2003), Flicka (2006) and Things We Lost in the Fire (2007).

Filmography

• Under the Blue Sky (2008)
• Beowulf (2007)
• Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
• Flicka (2006)
• Delirious (2006)
• "Pasadena" (10 episodes, 2001-2005)
• Where the Truth Lies (2005)
• The Big White (2005)
• Big Fish (2003)
• Matchstick Men (2003)
• White Oleander (2002)
• White Boy (2002)
• Alex in Wonder (2001)
• Delivering Milo (2001)
• "Tucker" (3 episodes, 2000)
• The Million Dollar Kid (2000)
• Sharing the Secret (2000)
• "Safe Harbor" (4 episodes, 1999)
• Planet Patrol (1999)
• The Auteur Theory (1999)
• "Crusade" (1 episode, 1999)
• The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
• "7th Heaven" (1 episode, 1998)
• "Pacific Blue" (1 episode, 1998)
• Kraa! The Sea Monster (1998)
• Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984)

Awards

• ShoWest Female Star of Tomorrow 2003