Biography

Dropped a bombshell in 2011 when she told The Sunday Times her dad has eight children by six different women. Although Clint has long been rumored to have unacknowledged children with various women, this was an unprecedented statement.

Daughter of Clint Eastwood and Margaret Neville Johnson, known as Maggie. Her mother, a nonprofessional, was born in 1931 and graduated from UC Berkeley. She married Clint in 1953 but did not have a child by him until 15 years into the marriage. Her father, meanwhile, started families with at least two other women during that time gap. Alison wasn't even introduced to any of her older half-siblings until she was 21.

Founder of the Eastwood Ranch Foundation, a non-profit animal welfare organization.

Received a fine and three years' probation after a drunk driving arrest in 1991. Kicked a drugs and alcohol addiction at age twenty.

Married for the 2nd time her boyfriend of 3 years Stacy Poitras after a 3-month-long engagement.

My dad wasn't around a lot when I was growing up and the only time I saw him was on the sets.

[on posing naked in Playboy magazine] I did it because I felt like okay, I am 30, I am in great shape, I feel like it's the prime of my life. I am not always going to look this way and feel this way and also, I really felt it was going to be a great help. Which it has been in a lot of ways to my clothing line. I didn't really do it because, oh, this is going to help my acting career.

I've never really tried to prove myself. I just try and do the best that I can. I don't think I am like a great actress. I think I am working towards trying to be better. I am working towards trying to be a good businessperson, a great clothing designer. I mean, you choose what you want to do in life and all you can do is try and be the best, but there is a process somewhere in the middle of that.

[on her biological clock] I am not really so concerned about that, because I think I got pretty good genes as far as my mom had me when she was 40 and she didn't - that was in '72 and back then people never had kids when they were 40 or even late 30s, it was pretty unheard of. So, you know, if it happens, it happens. I kind of believe in things that are meant to be. But, I am not gonna; well I have to have a kid now if I don't want one. I love kids and I love animals and I have a great motherly instinct. It's just, responsibility-wise, I am not ready. I have a lot of things I want to do. You know, you start your own business, and you are trying to pursue a career and do all these things and you still want to go out and see the world a bit, and you can't really do that with toddlers attached to your hip. So, I figure there will be a time and a place when that will be right.

[on having a famous last name] It's a plus and a minus. It's kind of a plus because obviously, people are curious and they want to go okay, we want to meet so and so's daughter and let's see if she's a chip off the old block kind of thing. But, on the other hand, as I was starting to kind of get into acting as an adult on my own and kind of take classes and starting to learn how to audition and really work, it took me a few years to really get a sense of what I was doing. Everyone has to learn in their own time. The only problem is that I can't get away with having growing pains and life lessons and going in and maybe falling flat on my face or screwing something up or having a bad audition without people remembering it because oh it's Clint Eastwood's daughter. You know, there's no anonymity for me, where as somebody, Sara Brown can walk in and go through all these different things that actors go through to really know their craft and get to know their what they need to do to prepare.