Alison Lohman is happiest now that she has left Hollywood
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter respecting the 20th anniversary of her first important film, White Oleander, Lohman, 43, discussed her choice to stop acting.
According to Lohman in the interview that was published on Monday, “I always wanted to have kids and a family, that was always a huge thing for me.” “It’s kind of a big shame if someone learns that I used to be an actress because then they won’t be able to see me anymore. I become an actress as a result of the bubble bursting. Just be me, please.”
In the 2002 film White Oleander, which also went on to star Renée Zellweger, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Robin Wright, Lohman portrayed the character of Astrid Magnussen. This was the role which gave her her big break.
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When did Alison stop showing up in films?
She stopped acting in 2009 after the release of the movie Gamer, which was co-directed by her fiance, Mark Neveldine. She and Neveldine left their fame after getting married in order to start a family in secret. Three children have since been born to the couple, who in August celebrated their 13th wedding anniversary.
Actress Alison Lohman reflects on her early success and explains why she left Hollywood in White Oleander.
Speaking honestly, Lohman says, “I just want to be me,” explaining how she walked away from fame and how, despite wearing a terrible wig, she landed the part in the movie that transformed her life.
Nowadays, Alison Lohman is hardly ever recognized, and she likes it that way.
It helps that Lohman has long since left Hollywood, which made it difficult for her to keep her confidentiality in the early 2000s when she was one of the most pursued entertainers in the city.
Before she turned 10 years old, Lohman began her stage career by performing in community theatre productions of The Sound of Music, Kiss Me, Kate, and Annie. Around the time she turned 18, she moved to Los Angeles, where she described herself as shy and having a musical obsession as a child.
Though she originally suggested continuing to pursue a music career or studying drama at NYU, where she was accepted, Lohman’s destiny established on the West Coast, where acting work came quickly and consistently, mostly on the small screen to begin with bit parts on 7th Heaven (playing a pregnant teen) and series regular work on Safe Harbour, Tucker and Mike White’s brief Pasadena.
After that, Lohman received the opportunity of a lifetime:
She was chosen over 400 other actresses for the coveted lead role of Astrid in the major motion picture transformation of Janet Fitch’s best-selling novel White Oleander. The coming-of-age tale, selected as an official “Book Club” selection by Oprah Winfrey, centres on a teenage girl who is forced into the unstable foster care system after her mother is found guilty of killing a cheating boyfriend.
Lohman relates a cast that includes Michelle Pfeiffer, Renée Zellweger, and Robin Wright in the Warner Bros. movie, which was released on October 8, 2002, and she is seen in nearly every scene. She rapidly made the transition to starring roles for top auteurs in a matter of seven years, including for Ridley Scott , Tim Burton , Atom Egoyan, Mark Mylod , Tom DiCillo , Susanne Bier , Robert Zemeckis , and Sam Raimi
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The last one on the list was released in theatres in 2009, the same year she starred alongside Gerald Butler in Gamer, a movie co-directed by Mark Neveldine, whom Lohman later married. The two decided to move out of Los Angeles, find a home, and start a family. With the possible exception of a few cameos in Neveldine’s movies, Lohman—who is now a mother of three essentially said goodbye to Hollywood and is content to let fame and all of that publicity jump.
What is Alison Lohman presently doing?
She was once an actress and now divides her time between being a mother, filming brief cameos, and teaching acting. The owner of a pâtisserie, Diane Dunham, and architect Gary Alan Lohman are the parents of Alison Lohman. Robert, her younger brother, is her brother or sister.