Alison Eastwood Biography

Alison Eastwood (born on May 22, 1972, in Carmel, California) is an American film director, Hollywood actress, fashion model, and fashion designer.

The daughter of swimsuit model Maggie Johnson and the movie star and film director Clint Eastwood (and younger sister to Kyle Eastwood), she attended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California and Stevenson School in Pebble Beach. Eastwood was a rebellious teenager. When she was eighteen, in 1990, Eastwood moved to Santa Barbara to study acting.

The daughter of Clint Eastwood, creamy-complected, green-eyed blonde Alison Eastwood debuted opposite her actor-director dad in “Tightrope” (1984) playing his daughter. But when it came to her first significant adult role in her father’s “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” (1997), she had to audition several times (and wait) like anybody else. Eastwood then landed starring roles in a pair of independent films, Rick Rosenthal’s “Isn’t It Romantic?” and Glenn Freyer’s “Suicide: The Comedy”, which both began lensing in 1997.

She was featured in the murder mystery “Black & White” (1998) and appeared “Breakfast of Champions” (1999), which starred Bruce Willis and Albert Finney. In 2003, Eastwood was cast in the male dominated feature “Poolhall Junkies,” in which she portrayed a law student and the love interest to Mars Callahan’s character.

Head of her own production company, Purple Rose, Eastwood is developing a movie version of Moliere’s “Misanthrope” and owns the rights for her pet project, the Jean Harlow biography “Bombshell”. Bearing a resemblance to the tragic star she plans to portray, the actress has stated that she feels a special kinship with the intelligent Harlow whom the Hollywood machine typecast as a bubbleheaded blonde vixen.

In addition to rebelling against her parents and being arrested for drunk driving, Eastwood also landed some professional acting roles during her childhood and preadolescent years. Her acting in the 1984 movie Tightrope won her some degree of success. 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.

More recently, Eastwood has again appeared on screen. Credits include the movie Absolute Power (1997), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Black and White (1998), Breakfast of Champions (1999), and Poolhall Junkies (2003).

Eastwood has also moved into working behind the camera. She was an associate producer for Don’t Tell in 2005, and directed her first movie, Rails & Ties, in 2007. Eastwood has her own clothing line, called the Eastwood Ranch.