Alison Ann Sweeney (born September 19, 1976) is an American soap opera actress. Sweeney is best known for her portrayal of Samantha "Sami" Gene Brady on the American soap opera Days of our Lives. In this role, she has earned four Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Fan Voted Daytime Emmy Award. She has been on Days since January 6, 1993. In 2007, she became the host of The Biggest Loser.

Career

Her television debut was at age 4 in a Kodak advertisement. A few years later, she was in an episode of Tales from the Darkside. The episode, titled I Can't Help Saying Goodbye, first aired on October 5, 1986. She played the part of a young girl named Karen who could sense when others were going to die shortly before their deaths.