Allison comes from a long line of storytellers.
Her great-grandfather, Rubén, was a poet for the national Colombian periodical El Colombiano.
Her grandparents, Soledad and Carlos, performed Latin folk songs and poetry to a captive audience at the dinner table.
At age three, Allison was given a dollar store microphone that echoed and she began to sing. She has never looked back.
Allison can be seen starring alongside Adam Sandler and Chris Rock in the Netflix original feature THE WEEK OF and in the hit Netflix Animated Musical Feature, LEO, alongside Adam Sandler, Bill Burr, Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider and Jo Koy. She recurs as Talia Goldstein in Season Two of the Emmy-winning Amazon Series THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL and stars in the independent feature EITHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT directed by Roger Spottiswoode. Strong’s television credits also include NBC’s THE BLACKLIST, Nickelodeon’s DORA AND FRIENDS & the PBS Kids Animated Series PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC. An accomplished bilingual VoiceOver artist with a home booth, Allison has proudly voiced various commercials and audiobooks in English and Spanish.
Hailed as “captivating” by Ben Brantley of the New York Times, Strong’s theatre aspirations began at age 9 when she became a member of the Metropolitan Opera Children’s chorus and appeared in productions of CARMEN and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. As a teenager, Strong made her Broadway debut as an ensemble cast member of BYE BYE BIRDIE. She has since gone on to perform in the Broadway cast of MAMMA MIA, while simultaneously completing her studies as a Musical Theater Major and honors student at Montclair State University. A former pastry arts student, she loves baking pies and experimenting with sourdough. She is also a paddleboarder and indoor rock climber.
Strong is a 2023 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Music Composition Fellow, a recipient of the Garden State Film Festival Rising Star Award & the Images/Imágenes Performing Arts Award from Rutgers University. She is also an alumna of the prestigious Johnny Mercer Songwriter’s Project and ASCAP’s Pop Songwriter’s Project.
In 2014, she released her bilingual debut album MARCH TOWARDS THE SUN and was featured in Diego Luna’s Fusion Network documentary series BACK HOME, filmed in her family’s native Colombia.
Allison released her second record, Brontë, in June 2023. Since then, she has had the honor of opening for Grammy & Latin Grammy Winners Jesse & Joy and LeAnn Rimes. She is currently recording her third album. Allison celebrates her Colombian heritage and was born and raised in New Jersey.