Alison Sweeney is an American actress, TV presenter, writer, producer and director, best known for her role as Sami Brady in Days of Our Lives. She later appeared in several popular television series, including Friends, Las Vegas and Murder She Baked: The Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery.
Biography
Alison Sweeney, whose full name sounds like Alison Ann Sweeney, was born on September 19, 1976 in the American city of Los Angeles, California in the family of Polly and Stender Sweeney. She has two brothers - Ryan and Stan.
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After graduating from high school, she attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she studied economics. However, the busy schedule of filming in the soap opera Days of Our Lives forced the actress to give up her studies and devote herself to acting.
Career and creativity
Alison Sweeney got acquainted with the acting profession early enough. As soon as the girl was five years old, she was invited to take part in the filming of a commercial for the American company Kodak.
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In 1984, she appeared in an episode of the CBS detective television series "Simon and Simon", where she played a character named Lila. In 1985, the actress starred in the ABC comedy series Webster and the NBC medical drama series St Elsver.
In the period from 1989 to 1990, Alison appeared in another comedy-drama series NBC "New Life", where she appeared as a teenage girl Christy McCrae.
In 1990, she starred in the first and only film in her career, The End of Innocence, directed by Diana Cannon, and was the director's semi-autobiographical story. Sweeney played Cannon as a teenager.
In January 1993, Alison Sweeney portrayed Sami Brady as the vengeful and challenging Sami Brady in the American daytime soap NBC's Days of Our Lives. The role, played by the actress for 21 years, earned her several Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Daytime Emmy nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series.
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In 2015, she played Hannah Swensen, a small-town baker with a talent as a detective, in the television movie She Baked Murder: The Chocolate Chip Cookie Riddle. Sweeney continued her performance as Hannah Swensen throughout the rest of the story, including She Baked Murder: The Plum Pudding Murder Mystery (2015), She Baked Murder: The Peach Pie Mystery (2016), She Baked Murder: A Deadly Recipe”(2016) and“Murder She Baked: Just Desserts”(2017).
Among Sweeney's later acting works, roles in the films "Christmas at Holly Lodge" (2017), "Chronicles of Secrets: Unjustly Condemned" (2019), "Chronicles of Secrets: Deep Pool" (2019) and others.
Family and personal life
Around 1997, Alison Sweeney began a romantic relationship with David Sanov. The young man was far from the acting profession. He was a California Highway Patrol officer.
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Several years later, the couple decided to legalize their relationship. They got married on July 8, 2000. And on February 25, 2005, Alison and David became parents. They had their firstborn son, Benjamin Edward Sanov. On January 12, 2009, the couple had a daughter, Megan Hope Sanov.
Alison Sweeney currently resides in Los Angeles, California with her family.
