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'How I Met Your Mother' Baby News

Entertainment Tonight: Topstories - Found 19 hours ago
In March, Cobie's "HIMYM" co-star Alyson Hannigan also welcomed a daughter .

Posted on July 3, 2009, 8:06 am

Happy Mother's Day, Alyson Hannigan

Babble - Found May. 10, 2009
Alyson Hannigan and her husband Alexis Denisof are new parents thanks to the arrival of their baby daughter Satyana. It's her first Mother's Day!

Posted on May 10, 2009, 6:56 am

FIRST PHOTO: How I Met Your Mother Star Steps Out with Baby A little ...

Radar - Found May. 9, 2009
A little over a month after giving birth to daughter Satyana Denisof, How I Met Your Mother star Alyson Hannigan debuted her new bundle of joy to the ...

Posted on May 9, 2009, 6:53 am

Alyson Hannigan's Special 35Th Birthday Gift: Baby Satyana

Post Chronicle - Found Apr. 6, 2009
American Pie star Alyson Hannigan was given a special gift on her 35th birthday - her first-born child.

Posted on April 6, 2009, 9:21 am

Alyson Hannigan welcomes baby girl

Canada.com - Found Apr. 1, 2009
Alyson Hannigan had a sweet birthday gift this year -- a new baby girl.

Posted on April 1, 2009, 12:10 pm

Alyson Hannigan Meets Her Daughter!

IVillage - Found Apr. 1, 2009
Your Mother's Alyson Hannigan is a mama of her own, as she and husband Alexis Denisof welcomed a baby girl on March 24 (which is also Alyson's...

Posted on April 1, 2009, 1:40 pm

Alyson Hannigan has a daughter

Boston Herald - Found Apr. 1, 2009
Alyson Hannigan, the star of How I Met Your Mother and her hubby, actor Alexis Denisof, have welcomed a daughter, People magazine reports.

Posted on April 1, 2009, 10:15 am

Alyson Hannigan welcomes baby girl

Vancouver Sun - Found Apr. 1, 2009
Photograph by: Frederick M. Brown, Alyson Hannigan had a sweet birthday gift this year -- a new baby girl.

Posted on April 1, 2009, 7:35 am

Alyson Hannigan welcomes baby girl

Regina Leader-Post - Found Apr. 1, 2009
Photograph by: Frederick M. Brown, Alyson Hannigan had a sweet birthday gift this year -- a new baby girl.

Posted on April 1, 2009, 2:09 am

'How I Met Your Mother's' Cobie Smulders Welcomes Baby Girl

NBC Connecticut - Found 5 hours ago
The '' starlet shares the screen with fellow new mommy Alyson Hannigan, who welcomed daughter Satyana in March.
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Posted on July 3, 2009, 9:46 am

Alyson Hannigan Biography

Alyson Hannigan
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Alyson Hannigan

Alyson Hannigan, April 2003
Born Alyson Lee Hannigan
March 24, 1974 (1974-03-24) (age 35)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Other name(s) Alyson Denisof
Occupation Actress
Years active 1988–present
Spouse(s) Alexis Denisof
(2003 – present)

Alyson Lee Hannigan-Denisof (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Lily Aldrin on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, Willow Rosenberg on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Michelle Flaherty-Levenstein in three American Pie films.

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Early life

Hannigan was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Emilie Posner, a real estate agent, and Al Hannigan, a truck driver.12 Hannigan is Jewish on her mother's side,3 and also has Irish ancestry.4 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 was not 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. After attending North Hollywood High School she attended California State University, Northridge.

Career

Hannigan's first major film role was in My Stepmother Is an Alien, a science fiction comedy released in 1988; one of her co-stars in the film was actor Seth Green, who would later join her in the regular cast of Buffy as her on-screen boyfriend. Then in 1989, her first regular role on a TV series came when she was cast in the short-lived ABC sitcom Free Spirit. Throughout most of the early-1990s, she appeared in commercials. In 1997, Hannigan was cast to play Willow Rosenberg, Buffy's best friend, on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (replacing Riff Regan, who played Willow in the unaired 25-minute pilot). The show became a success, and Hannigan gained recognition, subsequently appearing in several notable films aimed at teenage audiences, including American Pie, American Pie 2, Boys and Girls, and American Wedding. By the time Buffy had ended in 2003, Hannigan was earning a $250,000 salary for each episode. She also had a guest spot on the Buffy spin-off, Angel, reprising her role of Willow in a few episodes (including most notably "Orpheus," during the fourth season of Angel and the seventh season of Buffy), but none after Buffy finished production.

Hannigan outside the stage door after When Harry Met Sally... in London, in May 2004.

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.

In 2005, Hannigan returned to starring in a regular television series, appearing in the hit comedy, How I Met Your Mother, as Lily, and also playing a recurring guest role on Veronica Mars as Trina Echolls.

In February 2006, Hannigan starred as Julia Jones in Date Movie, a parody on romantic comedies.

Personal life

With husband Alexis Denisof

Hannigan previously dated Ginger Fish of Marilyn Manson.5 She later married actor Alexis Denisof (who played Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in the Buffy/Angel franchise) at Two Bunch Palms Resort in Desert Hot Springs, California on October 11, 2003. They bought a house together in Santa Monica, California.

It was announced on October 22, 2008 that she was pregnant with their first child. 6 Her daughter, Satyana Denisof, was born on Hannigan's 35th birthday, March 24, 2009. 7

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes Other Notes
1988 My Stepmother Is an Alien Jessie Mills
1989 - 1990 Free Spirit Jessie Harper (TV series) Main Role
1993 Almost Home Samantha (TV Series) Recurring Character
1996 For My Daughter's Honor Kelly
1997 - 2003 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Willow Rosenberg (TV series) Main Role
1998 Dead Man on Campus Lucy
1999 American Pie Michelle Flaherty
2000 Boys and Girls Betty
2001 & 2003 Angel Willow Rosenberg (TV series) Recurring Character
2001 American Pie 2 Michelle Flaherty
2003 American Wedding Michelle Flaherty-Levinstein
2004 That '70s Show Suzy Simpson (TV Series) Recurring Character
2005 Veronica Mars Trina Echolls (TV series) Recurring Character
2005 - present How I Met Your Mother Lily Aldrin (TV series) Main Role
2006 Date Movie Julia Jones

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