My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.

She was also a guest star on the ABC animated sitcom The Goode Family in 2009. Then in 1989 her first regular role on a TV series came when Alyson Hannigan was cast in the short-lived ABC sitcom Free Spirit. Hannigan joined forces with Emily Deschanel Jaime King Minka Kelly and Katharine McPhee in a "video slumber party" featured on FunnyorDie.

Alyson Lee Hannigan (born March 24 1974) is an American actress.