Alison Sweeney is an American actress, TV presenter, writer, producer and director who became widely known after playing the role of Samy Brady in the television series Days of Our Lives. She later appeared on several popular television series, including Friends, Las Vegas, and She Baked the Murder: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery.
Biography
Alison Sweeney, whose full name sounds like Alison Anne Sweeney, was born on September 19, 1976 in the American city of Los Angeles, California in the family of Polly and Stender Sweeney. She has two brothers - Ryan and Stan.
Los Angeles View Photo: Thomas Pintaric / Wikimedia Commons
After graduating from high school, she entered the University of California at Los Angeles, where she studied economics. However, the busy schedule of filming in the soap opera Days of Our Life forced the actress to abandon her studies and devote herself to acting.
Career and creativity
Alison Sweeney got to know the acting profession early enough. Just barely five years old, she was invited to take part in the filming of a commercial for the American company Kodak.
Alison Sweeney Photo: Albert Domasin / Wikimedia Commons
In 1984, she appeared in the episode of the CBS detective television series "Simon and Simon", where she played a character named Laila. In 1985, the actress starred in the ABC comedy series Webster and the NBC medical drama series St. Elsver.
In the period from 1989 to 1990, Alison performed in another comedy-drama series NBC "New Life", where she appeared in the image of a teenage girl Christie McCray.
In 1990, she starred in the first and only film in her career, “The End of Innocence, ” which was filmed by Diane Cannon and was a semi-autobiographical story of this director. Sweeney played Cannon as a teenager.
In January 1993, Alison Sweeney appeared in the image of a revengeful girl with a difficult character, Samy Brady, in the American NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives. This role, played by the actress for 21 years, earned her several Soap Opera Digest Awards and a nomination for the Daytime Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.
Alison Sweeney at the Fashion Show Photo: The Heart Truth / Wikimedia Commons
In 2015, she played Hannah Swensen, a baker from a small town with the talent for a detective, in the television movie "She Baked the Murder: The Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery." Sweeney continued her appearance in the image of Hannah Swensen in the rest of this story, including “She baked the murder: The mystery of killing plum pudding” (2015), “She baked the murder: The riddle of the peach pie” (2016), “She baked the murder: A death recipe "(2016) and" She baked the murder: Just desserts "(2017).
Among the later acting works of Sweeney, roles in the films "Christmas at Holly Lodge" (2017), "Chronicles of Secrets: Unjustly Convicted" (2019), "Chronicles of Secrets: Deep Whirlpool" (2019) and others.
