Alyson Hannigan
Alyson Hannigan Lee ( born March 24, 1974 in Washington, DC ) is an American actress.
Life
Childhood
Alyson Hannigan was established in March 1974 in Washington, DC born as the daughter of a real estate agent Emilie Posner and the truck driver Al Hannigan. Her mother is Jewish, her father has Irish ancestors. Her parents divorced a year after her birth. She grew up primarily with her mother in Atlanta.
Although she was a baby in a commercial for Active Parenting and 1978 for the Keksmischung " Duncan Hines " to see, began her real career as an actress in 1985 when she moved to Los Angeles. She went to North Hollywood High School. While visiting her father in Santa Barbara, she participated in an audition and won this.
Career
At the age of four years was Hannigan commercials for McDonald's and other companies before the camera.
She became famous initially by the movie My Stepmother Is an Alien and later the series Buffy - The Vampire Slayer. In the series, she played for seven years, the Witch and computer specialist Willow Rosenberg. In addition, she played the role of Michelle in four American Pie movies.
Then Hannigan played in a London theater in a stage version of When Harry Met Sally Sally and was seen in some episodes of the series Veronica Mars as Trina Echolls 2005. In the fall of 2005 started in the USA their new series How I Met Your Mother, in which she played until the series finale in 2014 on the side of Jason Segel, the kindergarten teacher Lily Aldrin. In February 2006, an appearance as Julia Jones followed in the film Date Movie, a parody of romantic comedies.
Private life
On October 11, 2003 Hannigan married in Desert Hot Springs her castmates Alexis Denisof, whom she met on the set of Buffy and the main cast of the series Angel - counted hunter of darkness. The couple has two daughters (* 2009, * 2012 ).
Filmography (selection)
Synchronous voice
Hannigan has various German dubbing voices. For example, the voice in Buffy - the Vampire Slayer, a serious -sounding; it comes from Marie Bierstedt. In the four American Pie films, she gets the voice of Manja Doering, which sounds a bit shrill, which is intended to support their slightly strange character in the movies. In the series, How I Met Your Mother Hannigan is synchronized by Angela Wiederhut.
Trivia
In March 2008, the satirical website The Onion published a fake news video titled FCC Okays Nudity On TV If It's Alyson Hannigan ( German: " The Federal Communications Commission Statement nudity on TV when it is Alyson Hannigan "). The video, which internally titled Understanding the FCC 's Obscenity Guidelines ( German: "Understanding the Unanständigkeits guidelines of the FCC " ) has been overwritten, shows a fictitious FCC spokesman, who repeatedly stressed that the FCC did not consider that it an obscene act would, if Hannigan would take off her top in a sequence.