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Alison Ann Sweeney (born September 19, 1976) is an American actress, reality show host, director, producer, and author. Sweeney is best known for her portrayal of Samantha “Sami” Brady on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives, a role she played under contract with the show from January 6, 1993 to October 30, 2014. In this role, she earned a Daytime Emmy Award nomination, four Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Fan Voted Daytime Emmy Award. After making sporadic appearances since then, she returned as a series regular in 2021. In 2007, she became the host of The Biggest Loser in its fourth season, and left the series at the end of the 16th season in 2015.
Sweeney is of Irish descent and has two brothers. She studied economics at UCLA but left due to her commitment to Days of Our Lives. On July 8, 2000, Sweeney married David Sanov, after dating for nearly three years. The couple have two children: a son born on February 25, 2005, and a daughter born on January 12, 2009. The family lived in Los Angeles. They have since moved to Arizona.
Sweeney’s television debut was at age five in a Kodak advertisement. A few years later, she was in the episode “I Can’t Help…
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