Alison Eastwood is an American

United States

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 film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, Hollywood actress, fashion model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

, and fashion design

Fashion design

Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social latitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories....

er. She made her directorial debut with Rails & Ties

Rails & Ties

Rails & Ties is a 2007 drama film that marks the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood, the daughter of Clint Eastwood. The film stars Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden and was written by Micky Levy.- Plot :...

(2007), starring Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon

Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Trapped, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, Crazy, Stupid, Love....

 and Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden is an American film and theatre actress. Harden's breakthrough role was in Miller's Crossing and then The First Wives Club which was followed by several roles which gained her wider fame including the hit comedy Flubber and Meet Joe Black...

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Early life and education

Eastwood was born in Carmel, California, the daughter of swimsuit

Swimsuit

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 model Maggie Johnson and movie star

Movie star

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 and film director Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...

. She has a brother Kyle Eastwood

Kyle Eastwood

Kyle Eastwood is an American jazz musician. He studied film at the University of Southern California for two years before embarking on a music career. After becoming a session player in the early '90s and leading his own quartet, he released his first solo album, From There to Here, in 1998...

. She attended Santa Catalina School

Santa Catalina School for Girls

Santa Catalina School is a private school in California founded by Sister Margaret Thompson and the Dominican Order in 1950. Situated on 36-acre hacienda-style campus, the Upper School is an all-girls boarding school which also accepts local students. The Lower School serves both boys and girls...

 in Monterey, California

Monterey, California

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, and Stevenson School

Stevenson School

Stevenson School is a private, coeducational PK–12 school for boarding and day students...

 in Pebble Beach

Pebble Beach, California

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. Her parents separated when she was three years old. When she was eighteen, in 1990, Eastwood moved to Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, California

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 to study acting at the University of California

University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

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Career

Eastwood landed some professional acting roles during her childhood and preadolescent years. She made her film debut at age seven in Bronco Billy

Bronco Billy

Bronco Billy is a 1980 American film starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke. It was directed by Eastwood and written by Dennis Hackin.-Plot:...

and 1984 movie Tightrope

Tightrope (film)

Tightrope is a 1984 American suspense thriller produced by and starring Clint Eastwood and written and directed by Richard Tuggle.-Plot:A young woman walks home from her birthday party. She is stalked by a man in distinctive sneakers. After dropping one of her presents, a police officer offers to...

. She has also worked as a runway and magazine model in Paris, posing for several European fashion magazines and Vogue (U.S. edition). In February

February

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 of 2003, she posed nude for Playboy magazine.

More recently, Eastwood has again appeared on screen. Credits include the movie Absolute Power

Absolute Power (film)

Absolute Power is a 1997 American political thriller produced, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood as a thief who witnesses a murder. The screenplay by William Goldman is based on the 1996 novel of the same name written by David Baldacci...

(1997), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997, and directed by her father), Black and White

Black and White (1999 film)

Black and White is a 1999 American film directed by James Toback, starring Robert Downey, Jr., Gaby Hoffmann, Allan Houston, Jared Leto, Scott Caan, Claudia Schiffer, Brooke Shields and a number of rap musicians, namely members of the Wu-Tang Clan and Onyx .The...

(1999), Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions (film)

Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 American comedy film adapted and directed by Alan Rudolph from the novel of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.-Plot:...

(1999), Power Play (2002), Poolhall Junkies

Poolhall Junkies

Poolhall Junkies is a 2002 drama/thriller film written, starring and directed by Mars Callahan. The film also stars Alison Eastwood, Michael Rosenbaum, Rick Schroder with Chazz Palminteri and Christopher Walken...

(2003), I'll Be Seeing You

I'll be Seeing You (2004 film)

I'll Be Seeing You, also known as Mary Higgins Clark's I'll Be Seeing You, is a 2004 television film based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark starring Alison Eastwood and Mark Humphrey.-Story:...

(2004), and Once Fallen

Once Fallen

Once Fallen is a 2010 crime film starring Brian Presley, Taraji P. Henson, and Ed Harris. Filming took place in Los Angeles, California.-Plot:...

(2010).

She has her own clothing line, called the Eastwood Ranch.

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