Allison Strong

rdf:langString Allison Strong

rdf:langString Allison Strong

rdf:langString Allison Strong

rdf:langString Allison Trujillo Strong

rdf:langString Allison Trujillo Strong

rdf:langString Strong at the Lackawanna Music Festival in Hoboken, New Jersey

rdf:langString Actress, singer, songwriter

rdf:langString Union City, New Jersey, U.S.

rdf:langString Allison Trujillo Strong is an American pop singer, songwriter and actress of stage, television and film. She first gained notice for her Broadway work in the musicals Bye Bye Birdie and Mamma Mia!, has done voice-over work on the Nickelodeon's animated children's television program Dora and Friends, and appeared in other television series such as The Blacklist, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. She gained wider exposure with her first feature film, playing Adam Sandler's daughter Sarah in The Week Of (2018). Strong, began acting at age 7, and won a national jingle-singing competition for Oscar Mayer at age 11. She appeared in local productions in and around her home of Union City, New Jersey since childhood, in venues such as the Park Performing Arts Center and Montclair State University, where she majored in musical theater. She is also an award-winning poetry reciter. She has performed at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and on the morning TV show Good Morning America, for numerous governors of New Jersey, as well as at the White House and for Colombian President Álvaro Uribe. A Colombian American herself, she writes and performs vocals in both English and Spanish, and composes on both piano and acoustic guitar. Strong's debut, dual-language album, March Towards the Sun, was released August 31, 2014 to positive reviews. In 2015, she played Ado Annie Carnes in an Annandale-on-Hudson, New York production of Oklahoma!, for which she garnered praise by The New York Times.