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Alison Courtney Pill (born November 27, 1985) is a Canadian actress best known from her roles in Milk, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Midnight in Paris.
Pill was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her father, a financier, is Estonian. Pill attended Vaughan Road Academy.[citation needed] In 2006, she starred as Grace Webster in the short-lived NBC drama The Book of Daniel, and was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore.[citation needed] Pill had a major supporting role as campaign manager Anne Kronenberg in the Oscar-winning 2008 film Milk.
She recently starred as April, a college student who discovers she has cancer, in the HBO series In Treatment.
Pill is engaged to actor Jay Baruchel. Baruchel made their engagement public when he thanked his fiancée (Pill) during an acceptance speech at the Genie Awards in Ottawa, Canada.
She is currently filming the HBO pilot of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom in Los Angeles, California.