Allison Rutledge-Parisi

Allison Rutledge-Parisi is an attorney, and a former chief administrative officer for Kaplan, Inc., and a former actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Jane Clark in Whit Stillman's critically acclaimed film Metropolitan (1990).

Biography

Rutledge-Parisi graduated from Yale University.

She made her acting debut in the short film Swingin' in the Painter's Room in 1989. A year later, she was cast as Jane Clark in Metropolitan. In 1991, Rutledge-Parisi appeared in an episode of NBC's Midnight Caller, with Gary Cole. (She was credited as "Allison Parisi".)

In the early 1990s, Rutledge-Parisi gave up acting and enrolled at Columbia Law School in New York City, where she was named a Harlan Fiske Scholar.

After graduating from law school and passing the bar exam, Rutledge-Parisi clerked for Judge Robert W. Sweet in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. After working as an intellectual property lawyer for the firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in Manhattan, she joined Kaplan, Inc. in 2004. Three years later, she was promoted to Kaplan's chief administrative officer.

Rutledge-Parisi is married to Dr. James Marion. They have two daughters and live in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem.

Additional reading

Henrie, Mark (Ed.) Doomed Bourgeois in Love: Essays on the Films of Whit Stillman. Intercollegiate Studies Institute: 2001.