Alison Pill Movies and Career Information

Alison Courtney Pill (born November 27, 1985) is a Canadian film, television and theatre actor. Pill was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her father, a financier, is Estonian. Pill attended Vaughan Road Academy. In 2006, she starred as Grace Webster in the short-lived NBC drama The Book of Daniel, and was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Pill had a major supporting role as campaign manager Anne Kronenberg in the Oscar-winning 2008 film Milk. She recently starred as April, a college student who discovers she has cancer, in the HBO series In Treatment. She played Annie Sullivan in the Broadway revival of The Miracle Worker from February 12, 2010, to its closing date, April 4, 2010. In the same year she appeared in the American film adaptation of the Canadian comic book series Scott Pilgrim, portraying drummer Kim Pine. She learned to play the drums for the role, and also performs on the movie soundtrack.