This article is about the American actress. For the British actress, see
Alison Mac.
Allison Christin Mack (born July 29, 1982) is an American actress, known for her roles asChloe Sullivan on the WB/CW seriesSmallville and as Amanda on the FX seriesWilfred.
In 2018, Mack gained publicity as one of the top-ranking members of NXIVM, a group accused of engaging in blackmail, sex trafficking and forced labor, for which it has garnered accusations by some experts of being a cult.[1][2] On April 20, 2018, Mack was arrested by the FBI on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy.[3][4]
Early life
Allison Mack was born on July 29, 1982 in Preetz, West Germany,[5][6][7] to Jonathan, an opera singer, and Mindy Mack,[6][7] who were in Germany at the time of her birth because Jonathan was performing there. Mack also has a brother named Shannon and a sister named Robyn.[7]
Career
Early work
Mack began her acting career at the age of four in commercials for "German Chocolate".[8]Mack then went into modeling for a short period because her mother thought she "looked cute in clothes". She began studying at Young Actors Space in Los Angeles when she was seven.[citation needed]
Her first major television role came in an episode of the WB series 7th Heaven, in which she gained attention playing a teenager who cut herself. In 2000, she co-starred in the short-lived series Opposite Sex. She also co-starred opposite her former Smallvillecastmate Sam Jones III in R. L. Stine's miniseries The Nightmare Room. Her film credits include roles in Eric Stoltz's directorial debut My Horrible Year!, as a girl having great difficulties in her life as she turns sixteen, in Camp Nowhere, and the Disney film Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves.
Smallville (2001–2011)
In October 2001, Mack began starring as Chloe Sullivan, one of Clark Kent's best friends, in the WB/CW hit Superman series, Smallville, an original character created solely for the show. The character was eventually introduced into DC Comics in 2010. Mack earned several awards and nominations for her portrayal of Chloe, including the Teen Choice Award for Best Sidekick in 2006[9] and 2007.[10] She appeared as a series regular for nine seasons, and returned for five episodes in the tenth and final season (credited in the main cast for the episodes she appeared in) including the two-part series finale. From 2003–2004 her character received her own mini series titled Smallville: Chloe Chronicles, and in 2006, Smallville: Vengeance Chronicles. In November 2008, Mack made her directorial debut in Smallville season 8 episode 13 titled "Power",[11] which aired January 29, 2009.
In 2006, Mack voiced the sister of the main character in the Warner Bros. CG-animated movie The Ant Bully. That same year, she voiced Clea, a museum curator in an episode ofThe Batman. Adding to her Superman resume, she lent her voice for Power Girl in theWarner Premiere animated feature, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, in September 2009.[12] Since May 2009, Mack has been part of a project with the Iris Theatre Company.[13]
After Smallville
In March 2012, Mack was cast in a recurring role in the second season of the FX sitcomWilfred. She played Amanda, the love interest of Elijah Wood's lead character Ryan. Mack returned to Wilfred for one episode of the fourth and final season.[14] In 2014, Mack guest-starred as a policewoman named Hilary in an episode of the Fox thriller The Following. On March 21, 2015, Mack tweeted that she would be appearing in American Odyssey as Julia, who befriends Suzanne, the daughter of Anna Friel's lead character Sgt. Odelle Ballard.[15]
Legal issues
In 2010, Mack was reported to have been recruited to the Vancouver chapter of the alleged cult NXIVM along with her Smallville co-star Kristin Kreuk.[16] In a 2003 article from Forbes, advocates of NXIVM portrayed it as an organization focused on inspirational executive coaching, "like a practical M.B.A.," while detractors accused the founder Keith Raniere of running "a cult-like program aimed at breaking down his subjects psychologically."[17] The co-founder of the Vancouver chapter reported in a 2017 The New York Times exposé that she had been branded in an initiation ceremony under the supervision of a top NXIVM official.[18]
Mack was arrested by the FBI in Brooklyn on April 20, 2018, on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy. According to prosecutors, Mack, who ranked directly below Raniere in a pyramid scheme called DOS, recruited female slaves for him, and forced women to have sex with him under threat of having damaging information about them released, in exchange for what were described as "financial and other benefits".[19] She faces 15 years-to-life in prison. Mack is currently incarcerated atMetropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn.[20]
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
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