Name	Alison Canavan
Height
Naionality	Irish
Date of Birth
Place of Birth	Dublin, Ireland
Famous for	Modeling

Alison Canavan was born in Dublin, Ireland on March 7 , 1978 and brought up in Castleknock. She is the 2 eldest of 5 girls and was educated both, in Mount Sackville and Pembroke Schools. She also studied PR, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Management in Dublin Business School (DBS). Alison was catapulted onto the international stage at the tender age of 15 when she represented Ireland in the Supermodel of the World competition in Las Vegas and had the privilege of presenting ‘Entertainment TV’ for the event. This has spawned a near 17 year career in the fashion industry which has taken her to the main fashion capitals of London, Paris, Milan and New York and as far around the world as South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. She has spent the past 7 years based in New York working all over the US where her career has diversified into TV, Film, voice-over work and most recently into writing.

Alison’s CV includes the prestigious Lux Soap Packaging Worldwide Campaign, Organics Hair TV Commercial, L’Oreal US campaign and commercials for Maxwell House, Bank of Portugal, Braun, Cadbury Aero, Paramount Pictures to name but a few. She has also done photo shoots for many designers and catalogues worldwide and featured on a variety of magazine covers She has appeared in numerous music videos including Boyzone and Wet, Wet, Wet. Alison has graced the runways worldwide for such renowned clients as Hermes, La Croix, Rochas, Paul Costelloe, John Rocha, Nicole Fahri, Hussein Chaylan, Hugo Boss, Episode, Marks and Spencer, BHS, Harrods, Selfridges, The Clothes Show, Igedo, Dorothy Perkins, Top Shop, and L.K. Bennett, among others. She has also made featured appearances at the British Fashion Awards and the British High Street Fashion Awards.