Alison Thornton (born 1998/1999) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for playing Zooey Hernandez Frumpkis in Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce and Lydia Spring in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
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Career
Thornton began performing at the age of five in dance, singing, piano, and theater at Place des Arts in Coquitlam, British Columbia. In her first television role, she played Angeline Bennett in the Hallmark Channel film Let It Snow starring Candace Cameron Bure and Alan Thicke. She then played Charlotte Spehn in the film The Color of Rain with Lacey Chabert. She played Zooey Hernandez Frumpkis for 26 episodes of Bravo's first scripted series, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, and Lydia Spring in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, alongside Elijah Wood. In 2018, she was cast as Bethany Forrest in the independent film The Mental State.
In 2018, she was cast as a guest star in the television pilot for a potential series adapted from the Megan Abbott novel Dare Me; in 2019, the concept was picked up to series, and she was promoted to a series regular role as Tacy Cassidy on the Dare Me tv series, which was cancelled after 10 episodes.
