Alison Eastwood

{{Infobox person

| name = Alison Eastwood

| image = Alison Eastwood 2012.jpg

| caption = Eastwood in 2012

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|5|22}}

| birth_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S.

| years_active = 1980–present

| occupation = Actress

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Kirk Fox|1999|2000|end=div}}
{{marriage|Stacy Poitras
|2013}}

}}

| father = Clint Eastwood

| relatives = Kyle Eastwood (brother)
Scott Eastwood (half-brother)
Francesca Eastwood (half-sister)

}}

Alison Eastwood (born May 22, 1972) is an American film director and actress.

Early life

Eastwood was born on May 22, 1972, in Santa Monica, California, to Margaret Neville Johnson and Clint Eastwood.{{Cite book|first=Richard|last=Schickel|title=Clint Eastwood: A Biography|year=1996|publisher=Knopf Doubleday|isbn=0679749918|page=286}} She has a brother, Kyle, and six known paternal half-siblings: Laurie, Kimber, Scott, Kathryn, Francesca, and Morgan.{{cite web|url=https://people.com/parents/all-about-clint-eastwood-kids/|title=Clint Eastwood's 8 Children: Everything to Know|work=People|date=August 8, 2023}}

Eastwood attended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, and Stevenson School in Pebble Beach. She attended UC Santa Barbara, but did not graduate.{{Cite book|title=Clint: The Life and Legend|author=Patrick McGilligan|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=0312290322|year=2002|page=[https://archive.org/details/clintlifelegend00mcgi/page/455 455]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/clintlifelegend00mcgi/page/455}}

Career

Eastwood landed some professional acting roles during her childhood and preadolescent years, making an uncredited movie debut at the age of seven in Bronco Billy (1980). Her acting in the 1984 thriller Tightrope earned her a Young Artist Award nomination. She has also worked as a runway and magazine model in Paris, posing for several European fashion magazines and Vogue (U.S. edition). She posed nude in the February 2003 issue of Playboy.{{cite book|url=https://www.librarything.com/work/20670872 |title=Playboy Magazine ~ February 2003 (Alison Eastwood) |access-date=July 23, 2020}}

Since then, Eastwood has again appeared onscreen. Her film credits include "Art Student" in her father’s film Absolute Power (1997), as Mandy Nichols in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Just a Little Harmless Sex (1998), Black and White (1999), Friends & Lovers (1999), If You Only Knew (2000), Power Play (2002), Poolhall Junkies (2003), I'll Be Seeing You (2004), Once Fallen (2010), and The Mule (2018).

Eastwood made her directorial debut with Rails & Ties (2007), starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100729172907/http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKHO58218620070915 Eastwood's tip to daughter: take your vitamins] from Reuters, September 16, 2007.

She has her own clothing line, called the Eastwood Ranch Apparel.{{cite web|url=https://tailsandtoys.com/tail-of-the-week/alison-eastwood-finding-forever-homes-beyond-hollywood/|title=Alison Eastwood: Finding Forever Homes Beyond Hollywood|access-date=February 6, 2020|archive-date=September 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926082627/https://tailsandtoys.com/tail-of-the-week/alison-eastwood-finding-forever-homes-beyond-hollywood/|url-status=dead}} She is the founder of the Eastwood Ranch Foundation, a non-profit animal welfare organization.

On the small screen, she appeared in the Nat Geo Wild TV program Animal Intervention. She has also been featured on the reality TV series Chainsaw Gang as one of the sculptor's girlfriends.{{Citation needed |date=March 2021}} The sculptor is Stacy Poitras, whom she married on March 15, 2013.{{cite news|title=Alison Eastwood Is Engaged|work=People.com|date=December 3, 2012}}

Eastwood's cover of "Come Rain or Come Shine", which she is shown performing part of in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, is included on the movie's soundtrack.{{cite web|author=Matthew Robinson |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/midnight-in-the-garden-of-good-evil-mw0000030408 |title=Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil - Original Soundtrack | Songs, Reviews, Credits |publisher=AllMusic |date=November 18, 1997 |access-date=June 9, 2020}}

Eastwood directed the romantic drama film Battlecreek (2017), starring Bill Skarsgård, Paula Malcomson, and Claire van der Boom.

Filmography

class="wikitable sortable"
Year !Title !Role !Notes
1980 \|Bronco Billy \|Child at orphanage \|Uncredited
1980 \|Any Which Way You Can \|Kid \|Uncredited
1984 \|Tightrope \|Amanda Block \|
1997 \|Absolute Power \|Art Student \|Uncredited
1997 \|Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil \|Mandy Nicholls \|
1998 \|Just a Little Harmless Sex \|Laura \|
1998 \|Suicide, the Comedy \|Amanda \|
1999 \|Breakfast of Champions \|Maria Maritimo \|
1999 \|Friends & Lovers \|Lisa \|
1999 \|Black and White \|Lynn Dombrowsky \|TV film
2000 \|The Spring \|Sophie Weston \|TV film
2000 \|If You Only Knew \|Samantha \|
2002 \|Poolhall Junkies \|Tara \|
2002 \|The Bend \|Sue Morris \|Short
2002 \|Power Play \|Gabriella St. John \|
2004 \|I'll Be Seeing You \|Patricia Collins \|TV film
2004 \|They Are Among Us \|Finley \|TV film
2005 \|Flatbush \|Shellman \|Short
2005 \|The Lost Angel \|Detective Billie Palmer \|
2005 \|Don't Tell \|Raphael \|
2006 \|Lesser Evil \|Karen Max \|TV film
2006 \|How to Go Out on a Date in Queens \|Karen \|
2006 \|Waitin' to Live \|Harriett Williams \|
2007 \|Rails & Ties \| {{N/A}} \|Director
2007 \|One Long Night \|Wendy \|
2010 \|Once Fallen \|Kat \|
2011 \|Henry \|Laura \|Short
2012 \|Animal Intervention \|Herself \|Docoseries
2013 \|Shadow People \|Sophie Lacombe \|
2014 \|Finding Harmony \|Sam Colter \|
2014 \|C.R.U. \|Allison Doyle-Ewansiha \|
2015 \| Unity{{cite magazine\|author1=Dave McNary\|title=Documentary 'Unity' Set for Aug. 12 Release with 100 Star Narrators\|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/documentary-unity-set-for-aug-12-release-with-100-star-narrators-1201477200/\|magazine=Variety\|access-date=May 1, 2015\|date=April 22, 2015}} \| Narrator \| Documentary
2017 \|Battlecreek \| {{N/A}} \|Director
2018 \| The Mule \| Iris \|

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1980

|Bronco Billy

|Child at orphanage

|Uncredited

1980

|Any Which Way You Can

|Kid

|Uncredited

1984

|Tightrope

|Amanda Block

1997

|Absolute Power

|Art Student

|Uncredited

1997

|Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

|Mandy Nicholls

1998

|Just a Little Harmless Sex

|Laura

1998

|Suicide, the Comedy

|Amanda

1999

|Breakfast of Champions

|Maria Maritimo

1999

|Friends & Lovers

|Lisa

1999

|Black and White

|Lynn Dombrowsky

|TV film

2000

|The Spring

|Sophie Weston

|TV film

2000

|If You Only Knew

|Samantha

2002

|Poolhall Junkies

|Tara

2002

|The Bend

|Sue Morris

|Short

2002

|Power Play

|Gabriella St. John

2004

|I'll Be Seeing You

|Patricia Collins

|TV film

2004

|They Are Among Us

|Finley

|TV film

2005

|Flatbush

|Shellman

|Short

2005

|The Lost Angel

|Detective Billie Palmer

2005

|Don't Tell

|Raphael

2006

|Lesser Evil

|Karen Max

|TV film

2006

|How to Go Out on a Date in Queens

|Karen

2006

|Waitin' to Live

|Harriett Williams

2007

|Rails & Ties

| {{N/A}}

|Director

2007

|One Long Night

|Wendy

2010

|Once Fallen

|Kat

2011

|Henry

|Laura

|Short

2012

|Animal Intervention

|Herself

|Docoseries

2013

|Shadow People

|Sophie Lacombe

2014

|Finding Harmony

|Sam Colter

2014

|C.R.U.

|Allison Doyle-Ewansiha

2015

| Unity{{cite magazine|author1=Dave McNary|title=Documentary 'Unity' Set for Aug. 12 Release with 100 Star Narrators|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/documentary-unity-set-for-aug-12-release-with-100-star-narrators-1201477200/|magazine=Variety|access-date=May 1, 2015|date=April 22, 2015}}

| Narrator

| Documentary

2017

|Battlecreek

| {{N/A}}

|Director

2018

| The Mule

| Iris