Alison Carroll: biography, filmography, personal life

Alison Carroll is an example of those girls who, not dreaming from childhood about the acting career, still made it. She was a gymnast, a trainer in choreography and even a secretary in a virtual sports club. But her life was turned over by a computer game. Alison went through the casting and presented her appearance to the tomb robber Lara Croft. The girl suddenly became famous. Model appearance and the ability to sit on the twine, do somersaults and other acrobatic tricks have opened Carroll's doors to the world of cinema. Now it disappears on the set. Her filmography will be devoted to our article. We will also pay attention to the personal life of the actress.

Biography Alison Carroll

Alison Carroll was born in 1985 on the twenty-seventh of March in Croydon, Surrey, UK. Thus, the actress has already celebrated its thirtieth anniversary, marking the entry into the middle age. Was she a person? Itself Alison claims that completely. At first she was attracted to sports, or rather artistic gymnastics. She started studying at the age of seven and achieved great success. At twelve she entered the Shirley gym and attended the High Edenham School. Rhythmic gymnastics is close to dancing, so the girl was trained at the College of Urdang Academy in the class of acting and music. She performed at sports festivals, took part in competitions and even championships in Great Britain. Once the girl even performed the number in front of Prince Charles in Westminster Abbey in the framework of one charity event. Then she became a coach and began training girls in the class of choreography.

Further career

Possessing a model appearance and the ability to dance, Alison Carroll has been trying to make video clips since she was twenty. Of course, she did not sing. But in the composition of the dancers was noticeable. For two thousand and six, she starred in the clips "No Time" by singer Just Jack, Well Well of the musical group "Satin Peaches" and another ten videos. The following year the dancer was invited by the advertising companies. At first her pumped torso testified to the health, which poured the body from the use of "Pepsi". Then she starred in advertising companies Nintendo Wii, Camden Crawl and Nike. In the same year, the girl officially registered as a model. Soon, Alison began to appear on the covers of glossy magazines, such as "Maxim", "T3", "Surfing waves". In 2007, she tried herself as an actress and starred in the secondary role of Jess in the movie "Misconnect." But the debut was ignored.

Star model hour

In the summer of two thousand and eighth, Carroll came to the casting, which organized "Crystal Dynamics" to select the main character Lara Croft in the new computer game Tomb Raider: Underworld. At the contest there were quite a few girls who were literally hungry for this role. There were among them athletes, and beautiful models. Alison won the judges by combining both these hypostases. The only thing that the company wanted to change in the guise of a girl is the color of the eyes. Sineokaya Elisson participates in various shootings and promotions in brown lenses. The girl just fell in love with her computer image. Now Alison Carroll is Lara Croft for one hundred percent. For her sake, the sportswoman took a course in archeology at the university, learned the basics of survival in the airborne platoon of the British Air Force, learned how to shoot from semi-automatic weapons. In a word, the girl raised a real tomb robber.

Alison Carroll: filmography

Work on Clara Croft continued from 2008 to 2010. In parallel, Alison gave her face to another heroine of computer games - Ashley Williams from the "Mass Effect". But, despite a more than modest debut, the girl dreamed of a large screen. And her dream came true. From the prototype of the computer heroine, she turned into a real actress. Alison Carroll, films with which began to appear since 2009, managed to win its place in the world of cinema. At first she played episodic roles: a teenager in the "Kennel", childhood friend of the main character in "Child". But gradually the actress comes to the fore. In "Gloomy Amsterdam" she played Monica Lander, a dancer and secret agent. And in "The Revenge of the Exiled" actress turned into one of the main characters of the film - Jay Benedict. The same scale and the role of Jenna Blackwood in the picture "The watered sorrow." Other films with Carroll are Love +1, Claustrophobia, Invasion of the Not-quite-Dead, Stagnant, Amina, New Arrival, Clone Bunny, Suburban War.

Creative plans

At the moment, Alison Carroll acts in films and prefers not to talk about work that has not yet been completed. But, she admits, she likes scoring, because improvisation is possible there. She gave her voice to Nemesis from the game BodyCount. Not forgotten in the past and her work on Ashley Williams - in fact came out updated versions of Mass Effect 2 and 3.

Personal life

Alison Carroll, whose photo is presented in the review, does not like to open the soul to reporters. At the end of the 2000s, she assured all the journalists who had spoken with her, that she did not have enough time for her personal life. She allegedly spends six days a week in the gym, and on Sundays engaged in cycling, surfing, roller skating and martial arts. But in 2009, the actress still took time out for her personal life and started a boyfriend, whose name she hid for a long time. But now everything cleared up: Alison's chosen athlete was Vill Borrell. In June of this year the couple concluded a marriage with each other.