Alison Oliver

About

Alison Oliver (born 3 June 1997) is an Irish actress. She is best known for her roles in the BBC Three and Hulu miniseries Conversations with Friends (2022), the 2023 film Saltburn and the HBO series Task (2025). She was named a 2023 actor to watch by Variety.

Oliver was born in Cork, the third largest city in Ireland, on 3 June 1997. She was initially raised in Ballintemple in Cork before moving with her family to Blackrock, also in Cork, when she was young. Her mother is a social worker and her father worked in the motor trade. She is the youngest of three daughters. She attended Scoil Mhuire, a private school in Cork, and took drama, singing and dancing lessons at The Performer’s Academy and the Cork School of Dance. She applied to Trinity College Dublin’s drama school The Lir Academy, but was invited to take a year-long foundation course in Acting and Theatre first. She auditioned again after completing the course, going on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in acting in 2020.

Oliver landed her debut television role playing the lead character of Frances Flynn in Conversations with Friends, a 2022 miniseries adaptation of Sally Rooney…