Allison Mack (born July 29,
1982) is a Saturn Award nominated
German
-born American
actress. She is best known for her role of
Chloe Sullivan in the
WB/
CW's hit
sci-fi drama
Smallville.
Early life
Mack was
born in Preetz
, Schleswig-Holstein
, Germany
to American
parents, Mindy and Jonathan Mack. Her father was an
opera singer performing there. The Mack family moved
back to the United States when she was two years old. She has an
older brother, Shannon, and a younger sister, Robyn.
Career
She began her acting career at the age of four in commercials for
"German Chocolate". Mack then went into modeling for a short period
because her mother thought she "looked cute in clothes."
She began
studying at The Young Actors Space in Los Angeles
when she was seven.
Her first major TV role came in an episode of the WB series
7th Heaven, in which she gained
a lot of attention playing a teenager who
cut
herself. In 2000, she starred in the short-lived series
Opposite Sex. She
also starred beside her former
Smallville castmate
Sam Jones III in an
R. L. Stine miniseries
The Nightmare Room. Her
filmography includes
Eric Stoltz's
directorial debut
My Horrible
Year!, in which she plays a girl having great difficulties
in her life as she turns 16, and
Camp
Nowhere.
Mack stars as
Chloe Sullivan,
Clark Kent's friend, in the
CW hit series
Smallville.
In the summer of 2006, Mack's voice was heard as the sister of the
main character in the
Warner Bros.
CGI movie
The Ant Bully. That year she also
provided the voice of a museum curator named Clea in an episode of
The Batman.
In November 2008, Mack began directing for the first time, taking
the reins on the episode "Power", which aired January 29,
2009.
Since May 2009, Mack has been part of a project with the Iris
Theatre Company which is performing a piece of exciting
experimental theater at the renowned
Prague Fringe Festival this
month.
She has been cast to voice
Power Girl on
the
Warner Premiere's animated
feature,
Superman/Batman: Public
Enemies, released on September 29, 2009.
Filmography
Awards
References
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