On May 22, 1974, in Columbus, a town located in Ohio, USA, Allison Joy Langer was born and raised by her parents till the age of five as they later moved to Los Angeles. She is a very prominent and well-known former American TV actress. She has been into professional acting since the late 1980s but gained international popularity for her 1994 TV series role as Rayanne Graff, named “My So-Called Life”. Although the series was a great hit, it did not carry on after 19 episodes. She had taken few years of a break after that from acting but came back in 2007 with “Private practice.”