Alyson Hannigan
Actor
An actor since childhood,
Alyson Hannigan is known to TV viewers as Willow Rosenberg, one of the monsterfighting sidekicks from the series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (19972003, starring
Sarah Michelle Gellar). Hannigan got her start at an early age, working on TV commercials in Atlanta, Georgia. When she was 11 she relocated to Los Angeles and found work gueststarring in several television comedies before landing the role of Willow. Hannigan has appeared in feature films also, most notably
American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001) and American Wedding (2003). She returned to television in the series,
How I Met Your Mother in 2005, and had a recurring guest role on the teen drama
Veronica Mars in 2006.
Extra credit: In 2003 Hannigan married actor Alexis Denisof, a costar of
Buffy and its spinoff series, Angel.
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