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Alison Sudol

American musician

Alison Sudol is an American actress, singer and songwriter, born in Seattle on 23 December 1984. She first made her name in music as A Fine Frenzy, releasing three albums between 2007 and 2012, including One Cell in the Sea with the single Almost Lover. She turned to acting in 2014 and is best known as Queenie Goldstein, the mind-reading sister of Tina, in the three Fantastic Beasts films. She has since returned to music under her own name, with the album Still Come the Night in 2022.

Alison Sudol appears in 3 films in The Rerun, from 2016 to 2022. Most of that work is in adventure, fantasy and family. Frequent collaborators in The Rerun: David Yates (3), Eddie Redmayne (3), Johnny Depp (3), Dan Fogler (3), Ezra Miller (3).

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Sudol taught herself piano, signed with EMI on the strength of a demo, and released One Cell in the Sea as A Fine Frenzy in 2007, followed by Bomb in a Birdcage (2009) and Pines (2012), which came with an animated short and a companion book. She then retired the A Fine Frenzy name.

Acting followed. She played the singer Kaya in the first season of Transparent and an archaeologist in Dig before J. K. Rowling’s Wizarding World cast her as Queenie Goldstein opposite Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston in 2016. She returned for The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), where Queenie’s arc takes a darker turn. She is a goodwill ambassador for the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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When was Alison Sudol born?
Alison Sudol was born on 23 December 1984.

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