Alyson Hannigan
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Alyson Hannigan
Alyson Hannigan (born Allison Lee Hannigan March 24, 1974) is an American actress best known for playing Willow Rosenberg in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She also appeared in films including, as Michelle Flaherty, American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001) and American Wedding (2003).
Born in Washington, DC to an Irish-American father and a Jewish-American mother, her first film role was in My Stepmother is an Alien (1988). Before that she had done a little television work, mostly commercials, and she went on to do a good deal more including Almost Home, Picket Fences, Roseanne and Touched by an Angel before being chosen for Buffy in 1997. By the final season she was earning $250,000 an episode.
It was announced in October 2003 that she had signed a deal with NBC to appear in a comedy, expected to debut in fall 2004. Reports indicated that it was likely to be titled Americana, but the pilot was not part of NBC's 2004 fall lineup.
In early 2004, Hannigan made her West End debut starring in a stage adaptation of When Harry Met Sally at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, opposite Luke Perry.
She owns a home in Sacramento, California and married actor Alexis Denisof (who played Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in the Buffy franchise) on October 11, 2003. Previous relationships include actor Steven Sutphen and Marilyn Manson drummer Ginger Fish.
In 2005, Hannigan is one of several Buffy cast returning to television - others being David Boreanaz, Nicholas Brendon, Charisma Carpenter and James Marsters - as part of the cast of the new TV series "How I Met Your Mother", as well as a recurring guest role on Veronica Mars.
Hannigan's somewhat unstereotypical looks and specific acting style have led her, for the most part, to choose somewhat quirky characters. Her best known roles in BtVS and the American Pie series are clear examples of this.
Filmography
Date Movie (2006)
How I Met Your Mother (2005) (TV series)... Lily
Veronica Mars (2005) (TV series)... Trina Echolls
American Wedding (2003)... Michelle Flaherty
Beyond the City Limits (2001)... Lexi
American Pie 2 (2001)... Michelle Flaherty
Boys and Girls (2000)... Betty
American Pie (1999)... Michelle Flaherty
Hayley Wagner, Star (1999) (TV)... Jenna Jakes
Dead Man on Campus (1998)... Lucy
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) (TV series)... Willow Rosenberg
For My Daughter's Honor (1996) (TV)... Kelly
A Case for Life (1996) (TV)... Iris
The Stranger Beside Me (1995) (TV)... Dana
Switched at Birth (1991) (TV)... Gina Twigg
Free Spirit (1989) (TV series)... Jessie Harper
My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)... Jessie Mills
Impure Thoughts (1985)... Patty Stubbs
Alyson Hannigan Favorite Faumous Quotes
- War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.
- A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
- I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
- The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
- In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....
- They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
- The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
- There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
- Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
Frank Moore