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Alyson Hannigan: Biography

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Birth Name: Allison Lee Hannigan
Birth Place: Washington, DC
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 03/24/1974, Aries
Profession: Actor; model

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This appealing auburn-haired actress specializes in playing shy, geeky characters who somehow manage to be sexy. A former child model, Hannigan segued to acting while in her teens. After a number of TV roles, s... read more

Alyson Hannigan: TV Guide News

Mother Cast Celebrates New Shows, and St. Pat's Day | Party Central: The Latest Buzz from Your Favorite Stars | 3/15/2008
The cast of How I Met Your Mother put the "work hard, play hard" philosophy into action Thursday night as they celebrated the premiere of their spring season and St. Patrick's Day at the Palihouse Hotel in West Hollywood. Stars Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders and Bob Saget wrapped up a milestone week of filming with pop diva Britney Spears and turned out in their red carpet finery ready to par-tay. Jameson Irish Whiskey cocktails flowed, Irish-themed hors d'oeuvres (including mini corned-beef-and-cabbage tarts, whiskey wings, and mini shepherd's pies) were passed around, and Segel dished about Brit-Brit's acting chops. "She has really good comedic timing," he said. "Her improvs were really good. She was into it and very funny." Segel also discussed his moonlighting as a big-time Hollywood writer when he's not working on HIMYM. "I'm writing the script to the next Muppet movie," he said. "The fact that I have been sitting in front of my computer... read more
My News Year Resolutions 2: Bruno Vs. Carrie Ann | TV Matt'rs | 1/2/2008
A day late and perhaps a dollar short on top of that. But nonetheless, I would be remiss if I did not share my resolutions for 2008. Such as:• The consensus is deafening and I cannot ignore it any longer. Though I have never seen a single episode, nor do I have the opportunity to "catch up" with previous-season DVD sets, I resolve to watch The Wire when it returns this week.• Provided that the strike ends... someday... and we start getting new How I Met Your Mothers, I resolve (again!) to finally track down Alyson Hannigan for a Q&A.• The sometimes groanworthy Private Practice? I resolve to stick it out through the end of the season.• I resolve to do whatever is within my meager yet undeniably increasing powers to get 30 Rock's audience into the seven mil range.• As managing editor of this fine site, I resolve to shout from the mountaintops, in the loudest manner possible using HTML, the resolution of the WGA strike once it arrives.• I resolve to... read more
A Most Engaging Story | Josh's HIMYM Blog | 4/12/2007
So we're all on the New York street on the CBS Radford lot in Studio City shooting a How I Met Your Mother promo that's a parody of CSI, which they tell me is a popular show. We're all exhausted and not quite sure what we're doing. My sense is that on an hourlong procedural show, the hours are much worse but your face never has to change its expression. So that's a big up. Changing facial expressions is exhausting and overrated. They're setting up a shot of a corpse's feet right now. We're all pretty exhausted — the night's supposed to go very late and we have an early call. We haven't been officially picked up for a third season yet, but we're all seeing it as a good sign that CBS is having us do this. I'm going to have each cast member say something... get a little guest-blogging going.Me: Hey, guys. Give me a quote for my TVGuide.com blog.[Everybody thinks]Neil Patrick Harris: "I'm in a constant state of squint. And I like it. I like it a lot. It feels right, you... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/9/2007
How I Met Your Mother: At its best, it's one of TV's tangiest, highest laugh-per-minute ratio comedies, populated by one read more
My "News Year" Resolutions | TV Matt'rs | 1/2/2007
While never one to set any personal-betterment goals, that does not preclude me from aspiring to amp up my performance as TVGuide.com's news blogger (Today's News: Our Take) and the domineering-yet-amiable overlord of the Interviews & Features column. Henceforth and herewith, thusly, I present my News Year resolutions, to which I refuse to be held accountable 364 days from now:— To finally land that (conspicuously) elusive interview with Alyson Hannigan, the only How I Met Your Mother cast member yet to indulge me in a fun Q&A. Is she afraid I will ask some lame, "When is Buffy returning?" question? Don't be, Alyson. Just call.— To resolve the question of whether a "blast" e-mail from an actor-friend's BFF is "for print," because right now I'm sitting on a huge piece of celebrity engagement news. Hellllppp!— To get to the bottom of the deepening "streaming Day Break episodes gone missing at ABC.com" mystery. Right now, I suspect that Vinnie Terranova's... read more

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Alyson Hannigan: Photos

red carpet, alyson hannigan courtesy John Shearer/WireImage.com

How I Met Your Mother, Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders courtesy Randy Tepper/CBS

How I Met Your Mother, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Alyson Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor courtesy Monty Brinton/CBS

How I Met Your Mother, Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan, Josh Radnor, Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders courtesy Monty Brinton/CBS

How I Met Your Mother, Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan courtesy Monty Brinton/CBS

How I Met Your Mother, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan courtesy Monty Brinton/CBS

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Alyson Hannigan: Credits

Title	Year	Type	Video
Happy Holidays Marathon (Actor - Willow Rosenberg)	2007	TV Show Series
Date Movie (Actor - Julia Jones)	2006	Movie
How I Met Your Mother (Actor - Lily)	2005	TV Show Series	Available
American Wedding (Actor - Michelle Flaherty)	2003	Movie
American Pie 2 (Actor - Michelle)	2001	Movie