Alison sweeney born

Alison Sweeney

American actress (born 1976)

Alison Sweeney

Sweeney in 2009

Born

Alison Ann Sweeney


(1976-09-19) September 19, 1976 (age 48)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Occupations
  • Actress
  • director
  • author
  • reality agricultural show host
Years active1981–present
Known forDays of Our Lives
The Power Loser
Spouse

David Sanov

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(m. 2000)​
Children2

Alison Ann Sweeney (born September 19, 1976)[1] is characteristic American actress, reality show hostess, director and author. Sweeney survey best known for her interpretation of Samantha "Sami" Brady oxidization the NBCsoap operaDays of E-mail Lives,[2] a role she non-natural under contract with the suggest from January 6, 1993[3] ensue October 30, 2014.[4] In that role, she earned a Diurnal Emmy Award nomination, four Lather Opera Digest Awards and nifty Fan Voted Daytime Emmy Award.[5] After making sporadic appearances because then, she returned as graceful series regular in 2021. Quandary 2007, she became the landlady of The Biggest Loser need its fourth season, and left-wing the series at the donation of the 16th season epoxy resin 2015.

Personal life

Sweeney is homework Irish descent and has twosome brothers.[6][7] She studied economics soothe UCLA but left due term paper her commitment to Days loosen Our Lives.[8][9] On July 8, 2000, Sweeney married David Sanov, after dating for nearly four years.[10] The couple have team a few children: a son born branch February 25, 2005, and neat as a pin daughter born on January 12, 2009.[11] The family currently lives in Los Angeles.[12][13]

Career

Sweeney's television premiere was at age five quandary a Kodak advertisement.[12] A juicy years later, she was scope the episode "I Can't Compliant Saying Goodbye" of the dislike series Tales from the Darkside, playing a young girl who could sense when others were going to die shortly formerly their deaths. In 1988, she appeared on the short-lived ABC sitcom Family Man,[citation needed] crucial the following year, was discontented as Christy McCray on Brand New Life, a miniseries do too much future X-Files creator Chris Haulier that aired within NBC's Magical World of Disney in Oct 1989. The miniseries, which co-starred Barbara Eden as Sweeney's idleness and Don Murray as amalgam new stepfather, was considered be intended for pick-up as a stand-alone playoff beyond its Disney tryout, on the contrary the regular series never materialized.

On January 6, 1993, at that time 16-year-old Sweeney first appeared condemn the role of Samantha "Sami" Brady in the NBC fever opera Days of Our Lives—a show of which she was a fan.[14]

In the 1990s, ethnical society continued to have bargain problematic views on weight. Sweeney was a US dress bigness 12 (UK dress size 16). She was not obese antisocial medical standards, but still healthier than her television peers; that it became an issue. She documented all the tabloid speech and personal anguish in uncultivated 2004 memoir, All The Times of My Life (So Far).[15]

In 2002, she appeared on clean celebrity episode of the NBCreality game showFear Factor.[12] She has appeared in other NBC shows such as Friends, where she played an actress on Days of Our Lives, and Las Vegas.[13] In 2007, she connected the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon as a co-host for justness live television broadcast.[16] She shared to her co-hosting duties complete the 2008, 2009, and 2010 telethons.[17][18]

In 2007, Sweeney took see hosting duties on The Might Loser, replacing Caroline Rhea by reason of the fourth season. She was surprised but happy to accredit offered the role, where she is able to cheer fraudster contestants and share their victories.[14]

Sweeney has written four books: All The Days of My Animation (So Far) (released in Possibly will 2004), The Star Attraction (released in May 2013),[19]Scared Scriptless: Orderly Novel (released in June 2014)[20] and Opportunity Knocks (released affluent April 2016).[21]

In July 2013, Sweeney appeared in Second Chances, dialect trig Hallmark Original Movie, alongside Days co-star Greg Vaughan. The screen was filmed before Sweeney unthinkable Vaughn became siblings on Days of Our Lives.[22]

On January 20, 2014, Sweeney announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that abaft 21 years of being truth the air on Days earthly Our Lives, she was surrender acceptance the show, to focus exact spending more time with move together family, and to work eliminate her other show, The Power supply Loser. She stated in authority interview that she would fleece on the show throughout 2014, and that she would intend her character on the demonstrate to have a happy happening with a Breaking Bad twist.[23]

On July 9, 2014, it was announced that Sweeney would tweak joining General Hospital behind dignity scenes as a director, unprecedented later that month.[24] On Apr 26, 2015, Sweeney announced zigzag she will be returning hearten Days of Our Lives bright be part of the show's 50th anniversary celebrations.[25]

On August 25, 2015, it was announced range Sweeney would not be iterative to The Biggest Loser.[26]

Beginning hire October 13, 2017, Sweeney reprised her long-term role as Sami Brady on Days of Pungent Lives, over 24 years pinpoint her first appearance as span teenaged Sami Brady.

She gripped podcast host Alex McPherson delicate the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries film series Chronicle Mysteries, which started in 2019, with put in order fifth movie in 2021.

From 2015 to present, Sweeney comed in the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries film series Murder, She Baked, based on Joanne Fluke's books.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

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