Alyson Hannigan American Actress

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Alyson Hannigan (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress who plays Lily Aldrin in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.











She is also known for her previous roles as Willow Rosenberg on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and flautist Michelle Flaherty in the American Pie film series.











Hannigan
was born Alyson Lee Hannigan in Washington, D.C. to Al Hannigan, a
photographer, and Emilie Posner, a real estate agent.











Hannigan is Jewish on her mother's side, and also has Irish ancestry.











Her parents divorced a year after her birth and she was raised mostly by her mother in Atlanta.










Although
Hannigan had appeared in an industrial film for "Active Parenting" as a
baby, as well as starred in a commercial for the "Duncan Hines cookie
mix" in 1978, it wasn't until she moved to Los Angeles, California in
1985 that she formally began her acting career.











Living
with her mother and attending North Hollywood High School, she
successfully auditioned for agents while visiting her father in Santa
Barbara.