Alison Pill

Alison Pill began her career as a child, appearing in television, film, animation and theater. Her early television credits include The New Ghostwriter Mysteries (1997), Fast Track, Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal, The Last Don II, Anatole, Degas & the Dancer and Stranger in Town (1998), followed by Locked in Silence, God's New Plan, Different, What Katy Did, Dear America: A Journey to the New World, A Holiday Romance, Redwall and Poltergeist: The Legacy (1999). Her early film credits include The Life Before This and Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1999), Skipped Parts, The Dinosaur Hunter, The Other Me and Baby (2000), Pieces of April and Fast Food High (2003), Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and The Crypt Club (2004), and Dear Wendy (2005).

Pill appeared in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, Midwives, What Girls Learn and Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series (2001), The Pilot's Wife and An Unexpected Love (2002), A Separate Peace and Plain Truth (2004), and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2006). She made her stage debut in None of the Above (2003), followed by The Distance from Here (2004) and On the Mountain (2005). In 2006, she played Grace Webster in The Book of Daniel and made her Broadway debut as Mairead in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

Her theater work continued with Blackbird and Mauritius (2007), Reasons to Be Pretty (2008), The Miracle Worker and This Wide Night (2010), The House of Blue Leaves (2011), Wait Until Dark (2013), Three Tall Women (2018) and Uncle Vanya (2024). She also appeared in Dan in Real Life (2007), Milk (2008), The Awakening of Abigail Harris and One Way to Valhalla (2009), and Goldstar, Ohio, EMGOD and Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation (2010). In 2010, she also played Kim Pine in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Princess Maude in The Pillars of the Earth.

Pill portrayed Zelda Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris and Eva in Goon (2011), Hayley in To Rome with Love and Denise and Alice in the short films Denise and Santa Baby (2012), and the Pregnant Teacher in Snowpiercer (2013). From 2012 to 2014, she starred as Maggie Jordan in The Newsroom. Her other television credits during this period included In Treatment (2009), The Pillars of the Earth (2010), 7p/10e, Therapy and Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends (2014), as well as Cooties (2014).

Her later film credits include Zoom (2015), Hail, Caesar!, Woman in Deep, Cover Up and Miss Sloane (2016), Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017), Ideal Home and Vice (2018), The Most Magnificent Thing (2019), The Same Storm (2021), All My Puny Sorrows (2022), Eric Larue (2023), Trap and Young Werther (2024), and Dedicated to Morris Burke. She also appeared in The Family (2016), American Horror Story: Cult (2017), The Emperor's Newest Clothes (2018), Devs (2020), Them (2021), Star Trek: Picard (2020–2022), Archer (2022), Hello Tomorrow! and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023), RoboGobo (2025), and The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey, Rabbit, Rabbit and Get Jiro (2026).

Pill's additional web credits include Honest Phone Sex for Married Couples and Angel and Demon (2016), George's Cheese/Pizza Revenge (2018), and Fight of the Century, Skin Trade, The Homebound Project, The Line, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Water Crisis, My Mouth Ran Away and Raising Arizona (2020), followed by The Doctor Is In and The Rubber Room (2022). Her music-video credits include "Drama Queen (That Girl)" by Lindsay Lohan (2004), "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt" by Owen Pallett and "Medicine" by Nick Casey (2010), and "Eat It (We're All In This Together)" by David Cross featuring "Weird Al" Yankovic (2020). She also performed on the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World soundtrack as a member of Sex Bob-Omb in 2010.

Pill's career honors include a Burbank International Children's Film Festival Best Child Actress Performance award for The Dinosaur Hunter (2000), a Drama Desk Award for The Distance From Here (2004), a Critics' Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble for Milk (2009), a San Diego International Film Festival Virtuoso Award for The Newsroom (2014), and Best Actress awards from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle and Festival du Film Canadien de Dieppe for All My Puny Sorrows (2022). She has also received nominations from the Tony Awards, Drama League, Lucille Lortel Awards, Outer Critics Circle, Screen Actors Guild, Gemini Awards, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, Detroit Film Critics Society, Seattle Film Critics Society, Phoenix Film Critics Society, Gold Derby and Tell-Tale TV Awards.