Daily readers of the site will probably already know that I’m not the world’s biggest fan of “Smallville”. Okay, so I think it’s stretching it a bit to go nine, ten seasons with this show. I mean, what the hell, “Firefly” doesn’t last past one year, and “Smallville” is already on year nine? That just ain’t right.
Anyhoo, when I do catch “Smallville”, I usually stay for Allison Mack. Maybe it’s the whole brainy superhero thing, or the fact that she’s just a civilian who is really smart, much smarter than the boring guy who flies around trying to pick up the skanky — er, I mean, brilliant reporter Lois Lane. Whatever the reasons, I love me some Allison Mack, and here’s our spotlight on superhero TV’s brainiest babe.
Here’s a quick bio (via Wikipedia):
Allison Mack (born July 29, 1982) is a Saturn Award nominated German-born American actress. She is best known for her role of Chloe Sullivan on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville.
She began her acting career at the age of four in commercials for “German Chocolate”. Mack then went into modeling for a short period because her mother thought she “looked cute in clothes.” She began studying at The Young Actors Space in Los Angeles when she was seven.
Her first major TV role came in an episode of the WB series 7th Heaven, in which she gained a lot of attention playing a teenager who cut herself. In 2000, she starred in the short-lived series Opposite Sex. She also starred beside her former Smallville castmate Sam Jones III in an R. L. Stine miniseries The Nightmare Room. Her filmography includes Eric Stoltz’s directorial debut My Horrible Year!, in which she plays a girl having great difficulties in her life as she turns 16, and Camp Nowhere.
Mack stars as Chloe Sullivan, Clark Kent’s friend, in the CW hit series Smallville.
In the summer of 2006, Mack’s voice was heard as the sister of the main character in the Warner Bros. CGI movie The Ant Bully. That year she also provided the voice of a museum curator named Clea in an episode of The Batman.
In November 2008, Mack began directing for the first time, taking the reins on the episode “Power”, which aired January 29, 2009.
Since May 2009, Mack has been part of a project with the Iris Theatre Companywhich is performing a piece of exciting experimental theater at the renowned Prague Fringe Festival this month.
She voiced Power Girl in the Warner Premiere animated feature, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, released on September 29, 2009.
You can currently catch Allison Mack’s Chloe Sullivan on the CW’s “Smallville” every Friday.
