Sasha Pieterse

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Sasha Pieterse : biography

February 17, 1931 –

Sasha Pieterse (born February 17, 1996) is a South African actress and singer. She is known for her role as Alison DiLaurentis on ABC Family’s TV series Pretty Little Liars.

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominated work Result
2003 Young Artist Award "Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) – Young Actress Ten or Under" Family Affair
2003 Young Artist Award "Best Ensemble in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama)" (with Caitlin Wachs and Jimmy ‘Jax’ Pinchak) Family Affair

Life and career

Early life; career beginnings: 2003–2008

Sasha Pieterse was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on February 17, 1996 then she emigrated over to the United States when she was 3 years old where she was raised in Las Vegas before moving to Los Angeles. Pieterse grew up around show business. Her parents were both professional dance partners who performed all over the world, and Pieterse loved being on stage with them. She soon met with an agent who quickly signed her to an acting and modeling contract. She started in the business at the age of 4 1/2 working on commercials and print work.

At 6 years old, Sasha Pieterse got her start in television, co-starring in 2002 as "Buffy" on The WB comedy series Family Affair. In 2004, she appeared in Stargate SG-1 and. She started to rise to fame as an actress when she played in House M.D. portraying a young girl named Andie with terminal cancer. Her performance in House M.D was later considered for a daytime Emmy in 2005.

In 2005, she appeared in her first film The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl cast as Marissa the "Ice Princess" who is the daughter of Mr. Electricidad, and at first the only student who befriends Max. On Planet Drool, she appears as the Ice Princess, keeper of the Crystal Heart, which is a necklace she wears which can freeze anything, including time. Because Max and his friends desire an increased opportunity wherein to defeat Mr. Electric, they request the Crystal Heart of her, to discover that only she and her alter-ego Marissa can use it. Marissa is often kept under very severe scrutiny by her father; possibly as a result, Max has imagined the Ice Princess as capable of speaking boldly to her father, correcting him when he suppresses her. Because Max seems to have an emotional "soft spot" for Marissa.

Pieterse has done numerous television commercials including long-running national spots for “Nesquick” and “Firestone Tires”. She was featured on a billboard for “Supercuts” that appeared throughout the country then she sang and modeled in the Macy’s Passport Fashion Show, performing throughout California. During 2006 she filmed for a feature starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, The Air I Breathe and she landed a lead in a Hallmark Hall of Fame Movie as Maggie in Claire, both were released in 2007.

In 2006, Pieterse stars as Good Luck Chuck as a young goth girl named Anisha whom while playing a game seven minutes in heaven at a party in 1985, 12-year-old Charles "Chuck" Logan (Connor Price) refuses to have sex with Anisha. In retaliation, Anisha places a curse on Chuck, so that every single woman he sleeps with will break up with him and marry the next man who asks her out. Also in a short-lived series called Wanted with her former Family Affair co-star, Gary Cole as Millie Rose for two episodes.

Pretty Little Liars and music career: 2009–present

In 2009, Pieterse made appearance in Without a Trace as Daphne Stevens in the episode "Wanted" and Pieterse landed a recurring role as Amanda Strazzulla who is the daughter of Lydia who abandoned her because she was too young to raise her. She lives in New England with Lydia’s sister Carol Strazzulla, and months ago manifested spontaneous combustion, the ability to explode things with the power of her mind, which caused her aunt to fear her, and also lured Noah Bennet and Meredith Gordon while they worked together for the Company during the Villains’ arc (Boom) in Heroes for 8 episodes.