Alison Ann Sweeney (born September 19, 1976)[1] is an American actress, reality show host, director and author.

Sweeney is best known for her portrayal of Samantha "Sami" Brady on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives,[2] a role she played under contract with the show from January 6, 1993[3] to October 30, 2014.

[12] A few years later, she was in the episode "I Can't Help Saying Goodbye" of the horror series Tales from the Darkside, playing a young girl who could sense when others were going to die shortly before their deaths.

In 1988, she appeared on the short-lived ABC sitcom Family Man,[citation needed] and the following year, was cast as Christy McCray on Brand New Life, a miniseries from future X-Files creator Chris Carter that aired within NBC's Magical World of Disney in October 1989.

On January 6, 1993, then 16-year-old Sweeney first appeared in the role of Samantha "Sami" Brady in the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives—a show of which she was a fan.

[21] In July 2013, Sweeney appeared in Second Chances, a Hallmark Original Movie, alongside Days co-star Greg Vaughan.

From 2015 to present, Sweeney appeared in the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries film series Murder, She Baked, based on Joanne Fluke's books.