Alison Thornton

Alison Grace Thornton was born in Vancouver, British Columbia,[1] Canada to American parents Allen Thornton and Wendy Loken Thornton (both psychology professors), who immigrated to Canada and became citizens. She has an older sister, Emily Marie Thornton. Alison graduated from Dr. Charles Best Secondary in 2017. She is fluent in both English and French. Alison currently lives in Vancouver and Los Angeles.

Alison began performing at the age of 5[1] in dance, singing, piano, and theater at Place des Arts in Coquitlam, BC.[2][3] In her first television role, she played Angeline Bennett in the Hallmark Channel Movie Let It Snow starring Candace Cameron Bure and Alan Thicke. She then played Charlotte Spehn in the movie The Color of Rain with Lacey Chabert. Alison played Zooey Hernandez Frumpkis for 26 episodes of Bravo's first scripted series, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, and Lydia Spring in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, alongside Elijah Wood.[4] In 2018, she was cast as Bethany Forrest in the independent film The Mental State.[5] Initially cast as a guest star for the pilot,[6][7] she was promoted to a series regular role as Tacy Cassidy[8] in the TV adaptation of the Megan Abbott novel Dare Me.,[9] which premiered December 29, 2019.[10]

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