Her parents Pierre Napoleon Berger, a grocery clerk, and Marie Alphonse Foisy were both of French-Canadian ancestry.

[3] Convent educated in the United States and Canada, in 1905 she began to work as an artist and lived with her brother Henry in Manhattan, along with his wife and three children.

When Kalem Studios began sending a film crew to Florida in the wintertime, Alice Hollister accompanied her husband.

She began appearing in film in 1910, at first because of the small crew and the frequent need for a female in a bit part.

[3] They are interred together in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Solace at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.