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She was born in High Wycombe,
England, just outside of London, and at the age of one her family moved to
Hong Kong. An agile tomboy as a youngster, Alison began swimming
competitively. The many hours of training each day helped her to win
numerous medals and honors on her way to representing Hong Kong's swim
team. Unfortunately, two broken legs and a broken arm put an end to that.
Still noted for her athletics however, she became captain of every woman's
sports team at her high school. "I hated skirts," Alison explains with a
smile.
Having family in Africa, Southern America, Asia and Europe, Alison started
traveling the world at a young age and by age fifteen she took a summer
job traveling unaccompanied all over Southeast Asia. Traveling is
something she is very passionate about, citing "I would go anywhere in the
world," and adds, "I have no fear of doing it alone." She became
infatuated with Southern California by watching the popular American
television show, Charlie's Angeles. "It looked like such a beautiful
place," she remembers, "but being 'an Angle' or an actress for that matter
never crossed my mind." College was what she set her sights on and as a
foreign student she came to America to study computer science at the
University of San Diego. After College, Alison moved to Denver, Colorado
to start her new career in computers but it was another kind of career
that happened instead. "It all started quite by accident," she puts it,
"and that's when I decided to move to L.A."
Alison began acting classes, and appearances on various TV shows and
commercials soon followed. She caught the eye of producers for the TV
series Acapulco H.E.A.T., who after a worldwide search cast Alison as the
sleek and graceful Marie Clair "Cat" Pascal. There was one condition, she
had to lose her English accent and she only had four weeks in which to do
it! The show starred Cat as the cool, intelligent former thief who now
fights international terrorists, drug kingpins and criminals as a member
of the H.E.A.T. team. Alison also hosted the sports competition show Beach
Clash and played the sexy dental hygienist in Seinfeld's "The Jimmy" among
other series she guest starred in during her hiatus.
Alison secured the lead role for the second season of Acapulco H.E.A.T.
due to her immense popularity overseas. Then she set out to prove her
diversity as an actress, portraying a murderous heroin addict on Silk
Stalkings, a sergeant major in an episode of the TNT TV series L.A. Heat,
and a nerd turned super villain in Black Scorpion. She can be seen
speaking "the Queen's English" in a recurring role as the heroine, Ariel
in the Warner Brothers produced TV series The New Adventures of Robin
Hood.
Alison's film career has included an appearance in Jerry Maguire as one of
Jerry's former girlfriends and an appearance in the Sylvester Stalone/Rene
Harlen film Driven as Stalone's former girlfriend. She also plays
Frankie's girlfriend in the Sundance Festival short Frankie Goes To
Hollywood. Current projects include the upcoming Canadian film The Hunter
starring Alison as detective Catherine Malloy and a starring role in Debt
of Honor, which is yet to be produced.
"I think the tough but feminine action-hero type is fun to do for the big
screen, but I'm interested in playing all kinds of different characters",
says Alison. "I'm happy, I love what I do and I'm looking forward to the
next challenge." Part of that challenge includes special training. Alison
completed a three-day S.C.A.R.S. sniper-training course for Debt of Honor
and trains weekly in revolver and automatic pistol for moving target
competition. She also studies boxing and martial arts twice weekly,
combining the arts of Judo, Jiu-Jitsu and Aikido. She has also studied
combat with the Broad Sword.
Alison has also tried her hand at hosting. She filmed two pilots last
year, Wrestle Rock, which combines music videos and Pro-Wrestling and
Ransacked, a game show by the producers of Weakest Link. Most recently she
was a guest host on the most popular show on the E TV network, "Wild on
E!" But the project that she is currently working on is in a new medium
for her, soaps. She will be guest appearing on the international hit soap,
The Bold And The Beautiful.
In her spare time, Alison enjoys sailing, scuba diving, snow skiing and
snow boarding, and working with charitable organizations such as Olive
Crest, which finds and matches would-be parents with adoptive children. |
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"The Bold and the Beautiful"
.... Monique (1 episode, 2002)
... aka Belleza y poder (USA: Spanish title)
- Episode #1.3771 (2002) TV episode .... Monique
Raw Deal (2001) (V) .... Ms. Crowe
"Black Scorpion" .... Stunner (1 episode, 2001)
... aka Roger Corman Presents Black Scorpion (Canada: English title)
- Power Play (2001) TV episode .... Stunner
"Dark Realm" .... Sybil (1 episode, 2001)
... aka Le monde des ténèbres (France)
- Murder One (2001) TV episode .... Sybil
Driven (2001) (uncredited) .... Girlfriend
... aka À toute vitesse (Canada: French title)
"Acapulco H.E.A.T." .... Catherine 'Cat' Avery Pascal (26 episodes,
1998-1999)
- Code Name: I Remember (1999) TV episode .... Catherine 'Cat' Avery
Pascal
- Code Name: Flight 401 (1999) TV episode .... Catherine 'Cat' Avery
Pascal
- Code Name: The Stolen Leg (1999) TV episode .... Catherine 'Cat'
Avery Pascal
- Code Name: Lollipop, Lollipop (1999) TV episode .... Catherine
'Cat' Avery Pascal
- Code Name: Juice (1999) TV episode .... Catherine 'Cat' Avery
Pascal
(21 more)
"L.A. Heat" .... Major Lauren Wylie (1 episode, 1999)
- Bad Reputation (1999) TV episode .... Major Lauren Wylie
"The New Adventures of Robin Hood" .... Ariel Glister (5 episodes,
1998)
... aka Les nouvelles aventures de Robin des bois (France)
- The Giant King (1998) TV episode .... Ariel Glister
- Godiva (????) TV episode .... Ariel Glister
- Heroes (????) TV episode .... Ariel Glister
- Return of the Giant (????) TV episode .... Ariel Glister
- Ringside Murder (????) TV episode .... Ariel Glister
"Silk Stalkings" .... Erin Kingston (1 episode, 1997)
- Fevers (1997) TV episode .... Erin Kingston
Jerry Maguire (1996) .... Former Girlfriend
"Seinfeld" .... Cheryl (1 episode, 1995)
- The Jimmy (1995) TV episode .... Cheryl
"One West Waikiki" .... Stacy Holliday (1 episode, 1994)
- A Model for Murder (1994) TV episode .... Stacy Holliday
"Thunder in Paradise" .... Shannon Daring (1 episode, 1994)
- Queen of Hearts (1994) TV episode .... Shannon Daring
"Acapulco H.E.A.T." .... Catherine 'Cat' Avery Pascal / ... (22
episodes, 1993-1994)
- Code Name: Assassin (1994) TV episode .... Cat (Catherine Avery
Pascal)
- Code Name: Deep Six (1994) TV episode .... Cat (Catherine Avery
Pascal)
- Code Name: Stalemate: Part 2 (1994) TV episode .... Cat (Catherine
Avery Pascal)
- Code Name: Stalemate - Part 1 (1994) TV episode .... Cat
(Catherine Avery Pascal)
- Code Name: Stranded (1994) TV episode .... Catherine 'Cat' Avery
Pascal
(17 more)
Miracle Beach (1992) (as Brittany York) .... Girl in Bed
Secret Games (1992) .... Nun
"Full House" .... Girl on Bike (1 episode, 1991)
- Easy Rider (1991) TV episode .... Girl on Bike
Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories (1991) (TV) (uncredited) ....
Britany
... aka I Posed for Playboy (USA: video title) |
