Allison Miller was born in Rome, Italy, to American parents, Margo and
John Winn Miller. She grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, where her father
worked as a journalist.
The family eventually settled in Tallahassee, Florida, where she
studied dance, piano, acting and singing while still at high school
before briefly attending the University of Florida at Gainesville. She
dropped out and moved to Los Angeles to start a career in acting.
She appeared in one episode of
General Hospital (1963) in
2006 and followed that with several more TV and movie appearances
before landing a role in the critically acclaimed
Kings (2009).