---
name: "Alison Folland"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alison-folland"
fi1m_id: "alison-folland"
imdb_id: "nm0284315"
tmdb_id: 2841
wikidata_id: "Q2837155"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 August 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-01T19:40:12.461825+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alison Folland

## Identity

Alison Folland

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alison-folland
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alison-folland
- **IMDb ID:** nm0284315
- **TMDB ID:** 2841
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2837155
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Folland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2837155, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284315/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2841

Actor. Born 10 August 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 August 1978, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Active:** 1997–2010
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 84 (2), 2000s 56 (2), 2010s 79 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 67 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Crime 1, Music 1, Science Fiction 1, Sport 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $534m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Folland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2837155, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284315/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2841

## Biography

Alison Folland is an American actress and filmmaker. She was born on 10 August 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Wellesley. She attended Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Folland began her career with a role in *To Die For* (1995). She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead for *All Over Me* (1997) and appeared in supporting roles in *Good Will Hunting* (1997), *Boys Don't Cry* (1999) as Kate, *Finding Forrester* (2000), *I'm Not There* (2007), *The Happening* (2008) and *The Fighter* (2010).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *The Fighter* (2010), Fi1m 79, as Laurie Carroll — [page](https://film.one/film/the-fighter.md)
- *The Happening* (2008), Fi1m 38, as Woman Reading on Bench with Hair Pin — [page](https://film.one/film/the-happening.md)
- *I'm Not There* (2007), Fi1m 74, as Grace — [page](https://film.one/film/im-not-there.md)
- *Boys Don't Cry* (1999), Fi1m 85, as Kate — [page](https://film.one/film/boys-dont-cry.md)
- *Good Will Hunting* (1997), Fi1m 82, as MIT Student — [page](https://film.one/film/good-will-hunting.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Song of Ascent* (2025), Director
- *Feather Family* (2023), Director
- *Keeping Together in Time* (2021), Director
- *Fruit Hospital, Episode 2* (2014), as Nurse Corndog
- *Fruit Hospital, Episode 1* (2014), as Nurse Corndog
- *Mobile Homes* (2013), as Ali
- *The Fighter* (2010), as Laurie Carroll — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/the-fighter.md)
- *The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2* (2008), as Stage Manager Margaret
- *The Happening* (2008), as Woman Reading on Bench with Hair Pin — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/the-happening.md)
- *I'm Not There* (2007), as Grace — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/im-not-there.md)
- *Diggers* (2007), as Beth
- *Zerophilia* (2005), as Janine
- *Stay Until Tomorrow* (2004), as Carla
- *CSI: NY* (2004), series, as Stacey Gale
- *She Hate Me* (2004), as Doris
- *Milwaukee, Minnesota* (2003), as Tuey Stites
- *Things Behind the Sun* (2001), as Lulu
- *Finding Forrester* (2000), as Jeopardy Contestant
- *Pigeonholed* (1999), Actor
- *Boys Don't Cry* (1999), as Kate — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/boys-dont-cry.md)
- *Good Will Hunting* (1997), as MIT Student — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/good-will-hunting.md)
- *All Over Me* (1997), as Claude
- *Before and After* (1996), as Martha Taverner
- *To Die For* (1995), as Lydia Mertz
- *Homicide: Life on the Street* (1993), series, as Grace Rivera — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/tv/homicide-life-on-the-street.md)
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Gina Bowman — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

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