Alison Lohman

Alison Lohman is an American actress born in Palm Springs, California, in 1979. She started with small roles in short and independent films and starred in the sitcom Tucker and the soap opera Pasadena before winning critical attention for White Oleander in 2002, followed by Big Fish and Matchstick Men in 2003. She also voiced the title character in the 2005 English redub of the animated film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and later appeared in Flicka, Beowulf and Things We Lost in the Fire. Her highest-grossing release was the horror film Drag Me to Hell in 2009, which brought her nominations from the Detroit Film Critics Society, the MTV Movie Awards and the Saturn Awards. She retired from acting in 2009 after marrying the filmmaker Mark Neveldine, worked as an acting coach, took small roles in three of his films in 2015 and 2016, and returned to acting in 2024.