Alison Eastwood (born on 22nd May 1972) is as of 2004 a model, fashion designer and Hollywood actress. The daughter of swimsuit model Maggie Johnson and the legendary cowboy flimstar Clint Eastwood, Alison had been a very rebellious girl when she was a teen, partially due to her parents' divorce in 1978. Her run-ins with the law eventualy culminated in a drunk-driving arrest for which she spent one night in jail. Alison was soon relocated to Santa Barbara at 18 to study acting from her hometown in Carmel, California.
Alison has also took up some acting roles during her childhood and preadolescence years, and it proved successful during the 1984 thriller movie, Tightrope. After a few years, Alison did some runway and magazine work in Paris, posing for several European fashion magazines and Vogue (U.S. edition). She even posed some nude pictures in one of Playboy's 1999 and 2003 magazines.
Alison restarted her acting career in the movie Absolute Power and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in 1997 before turning herself into an actress in her own rights, no longer using her father as a crutch to her acting career. Alison, who branched out on her own in films, and roles in Black and White (1998) and Breakfast of Champions (1999) began to reveal a developing dramatic talent in her, in turn she gained some fame.
Alison has her own clothing line, called the Eastwood Ranch, made almost as much news, thanks to the Western-styled sports and denim wear. She also has an elder brother, Kyle, a bassist.
