Alison Fanelli


Alison Sue Fanelli is an American physician assistant and former actress who is best known for the role of Ellen Josephine Hickle on Nickelodeon's 1990s television series The Adventures of Pete & Pete.

Early life and career

Fanelli was born in Northport, New York. She attended Northport High School where her talents were on display for the Powdered Wigs Drama Department, and as a percussionist for the Northport High School Drumline.
In 1989, Fanelli joined the cast of Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete & Pete, playing Ellen Josephine Hickle. The character was the best friend and love interest of Big Pete. Fanelli completed work on the series in 1996.

Education and later career

She is a 2001 graduate of Goucher College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in pre-med, and Dartmouth College, where she earned a master's degree in Health Care Improvement. While at Dartmouth, Fanelli was a project manager for a web-based project to develop a secure online database for the Institutional Review Board, IRBnet. She conducted additional training at Arcadia University.
In 2011, she contributed as the voice of Splat for an episode of TOME: Terrain of Magical Expertise, a "video game based web cartoon", created by her brother, Chris Niosi.
After Dartmouth, Fanelli worked as a physician's assistant at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia., she is a physician assistant working in urgent care.