Alison Eastwood


Alison Eastwood is an American actress, director, producer, fashion model, and fashion designer.

Early life

Eastwood was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Margaret Neville Johnson and movie star Clint Eastwood. She has a brother, Kyle, and seven known paternal half-siblings: Laurie, Kimber, Scott, Kathryn, Francesca and Morgan.
Eastwood attended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, and Stevenson School in Pebble Beach. In 1990, aged 18, Eastwood enrolled at UC Santa Barbara to study acting; she did not graduate.

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. 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. She posed nude in the February 2003 issue of Playboy.
Since then, Eastwood has again appeared onscreen. Her film credits include Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Just a Little Harmless Sex, Black and White, Friends & Lovers, If You Only Knew, Power Play, Poolhall Junkies, I'll Be Seeing You, Once Fallen, and The Mule.
Eastwood made her directorial debut with Rails & Ties, starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden.
She has her own clothing line, called the Eastwood Ranch Apparel. 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. The sculptor is Stacy Poitras, whom she married on March 15, 2013.
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.
Eastwood directed the romantic drama film Battlecreek, starring Bill Skarsgård, Paula Malcomson, and Claire van der Boom.

Filmography