Alison A Elliott born 19 May 1970 is an American actress Elliott was born in San Francisco CA the daughter of Barbara a teacher of nursing and Bob Elliott a computer executive She moved with her family to Tokyo Japan when she was 4 years old and then moved back to San Francisco when she was 8 where she later attended an arts high school At 14 her modeling career began and in 1989 she moved to Los Angeles to star as a teenaged model on the TV sitcom Living Dolls 1989 She is perhaps best known for her roles in films such as Underneath 1994 The Spitfire Grill 1996 The Wings of the Dove 1997 and Birth 2004 She also had one of the leading roles in the BBC production Buccaneers 1995 In the 2007 western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Elliott plays the memorable role of Martha Bolton the older sister of Robert Ford In addition to her film roles Elliott has narrated audio books including Belle Praters Boy by Ruth White and its sequel The Search for Belle Prater Description above from the Wikipedia article Alison Elliott licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia