Alison Brie was born in Hollywood, CA and grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of South Pasadena. Interested in acting at an early age, she began her career performing in community theatre shows at the Jewish Community Center in Los Feliz. Her very first role was "Toto" in The Wizard of Oz.
After graduating from South Pasadena High School, she attended California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) where she received her BFA in Acting. While there, she was one of the original cast members in the world premiere of The Peach Blossom Fan, performed as the inaugural theatre production at Disney's REDCAT Theatre in Downtown LA. During that time Alison also studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, Scotland.
Ms. Brie has performed in the Blank Theatre company's Young Playwright's festival and in shows at the Odyssey, Write-Act, and Rubicon Theatres, receiving an Indy Award for her haunting performance as “Ophelia” in the Rubicon's production of Hamlet.
On the television front, Alison landed her SAG Awardwinning role as "Trudy Campbell" on AMC's Mad Men. She also will be seen this fall as a series regular on NBC’s single-camera comedy Community. Previously she had performed in a pilot for Comedy Central and Disney's Hannah Montana.
Since then Alison has continued to work in film, most recently starring opposite Haley Joel Osment and Olympia Dukakis in the film Montana Amazon and in the independent film Rasberry Magic. She currently lives in South Pasadena. She is repped by Innovative Artists and Vital Management Group.