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Cast & Character Biographies
Biographies of the cast & characters from BtVS.
------------------- Alyson Hannigan/Willow
Rosenberg -------------------
 Allison Lee Hannigan
Alyson was born on the 24th of March 1974 in Washington DC and
began her acting career at the age of 4 in adverts for McDonalds and
Oreo cookies. With her continuing success in the commercial area her
family decided to move down to Los Angeles to give her a bigger break.
Her first major big screen role was in the film called My Step Mother
is an Alien also starring Kim Basinger & Dan Aykroyd. She
graduated from North Hollywood High School in 1992. After her big film
break she got a few roles on shows such as Roseanne & Touched by an
Angel. She also co-starred in a show called Free Spirit in which she
played a witch, which is ironically where she is now, playing Willow
Rosenberg on hit show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After her success on
Buffy she has also nabbed other film roles including that of Michelle in
American Pie 1 & 2 and the upcoming 3rd film installment. The
producers originally wanted her to play the role of Heather but Alyson preferred
the funnier Michelle.
In her extra time Alyson enjoys kick boxing, bike riding and football.
She has a tattoo of tribal dolphins on her ankle, and a Japanese kanji,
for luck and happiness, on her back. She is currently dating ex-BtVS
star and current Angel star Alexis Denisof.
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 Willow
Rosenberg
Willow's parents are Sheila & Ira Rosenberg. Willow comes
from a Jewish background, her father of whom is the stricter in the religious
tendencies. Her life time friend has bee Xander Harris, the two have
been friends for pretty much their whole lives. When Buffy Summers
joined Sunnydale High Willow's somewhat normal life turned upside down.
She was known as the class geek but when Buffy began hanging around with
her, her status was lifted slightly. Willow is extremely clever and
excels in anything she does. She's particularly good with computers and
more recently magic. Willow began to come out of her shell a bit more
and also began dating a member of the band, Dingoes Ate My Baby, Daniel
"Oz" Osbourne. At Sunnydale High the IT teacher, Jenny
Calendar, was murdered by Angelus and Willow filled in her shoes as
acting IT teacher. While researching Jenny's old files on her computer
she got a growing interest in magic and began dabbling. Oz & Willow
were together for a very long time through their ups and downs, one of
them being a few casual flings Willow & Xander had together. But Oz
& Willow pulled through. But it wasn't to be, Oz's werewolf
tendencies seemed to be brought on by Willow and so Oz left town.
Willow found herself a new friend. Tara Maclay, a quiet girl at UC
Sunnydale who attended the same wicca group as Willow. The two bonded
and fell in love. Both were heavily into the magicks but Willow's use
began to get too much for Tara and Tara left Willow because of the
dangerous overuse. Willow began to get addicted and she found she
couldn't stop, eventually she did and Tara welcomed her back. But it
wasn't to last long as Tara was murdered by Warren, Tara was shot and
this one even released the hate and magic within Willow and Willow
murdered Warren in her rage. She wanted to end the world, but was
stopped by Xander. Her magic addiction was brought to an end with Giles'
help when she went to England with him.
After recovering from her past events and learning to control the magic
she returned to Sunnydale. At first she was scared to use her magic, for
fear that she would succumb to the dark side of it. But in time her confidence
grew as did her power. She also had to get to grips with Tara's death
and eventually she managed to get over her and find a new girlfriend,
Kennedy. Kennedy was a potential slayer. Willow was unsure of the
relationship but in the end they pulled through. In the final battle to
save the world against a massive army of Turok-Hans, Willow had an
important part. She used the essence of a weapon, endowed with slayer
strength, to give that power to all potential slayers in the world.
Doing this proved that Willow is one of the most powerful human
beings/witches of her time.
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------------------- Alyson Hannigan's Filmography -------------------
- Date Movie (2006) - Julia
- How I Met Your Mother (2005) - Lily
- American Wedding (2003) - Michelle Flaherty
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Beyond the City Limits (2002) - Lexi
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American Pie 2 (2001) - Michelle Flaherty
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Boys and Girls (2000) - Betty
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Hayley Wagner, Star (1999) (TV) - Jenna Jakes
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American Pie (1999) - Michelle Flaherty
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Dead Man on Campus (1998) - Lucy
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For My Daughter's Honor (1996) (TV) - Kelly
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Case for Life, A (1996) (TV) - Iris
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Stranger Beside Me, The (1995) (TV) - Dana
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Switched at Birth (1991) (TV) - Gina Twigg
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Free Spirit (1989) TV Series - Jessie Harper
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My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) - Jessie Mills
------------------- Alyson Hannigan's Filmography -------------------
- Veronica Mars playing Trina Echolls in episode: Everybody Cries
Wolf February 2006
- Veronica Mars playing Trina Echolls in episode: My Mother, The Fiend
(episode 2.9) 30 November 2005
- Last Call with Carson Daly 11 October 2005
- The View 30 September 2005
- Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show 27 September 2005
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (episode 2.5) 16
September 2005
- Veronica Mars playing Trina Echolls in episode: Hot Dogs (episode
1.19) 19 April 2005
- Veronica Mars playing Trina Echolls in episode: Ruskie Business
(episode 1.15) 22 February 2005
- King of the Hill playing Stacey Gibson (voice) in episode: Talking
Shop (episode # 8.22) 23 May 2004
- T4 29 February 2004
- That '70s Show playing Suzy Simpson in episode: Won't Get Fooled Again
(episode # 6.13) 25 February 2004
- That '70s Show playing Suzy Simpson in episode: Sally Simpson (episode
# 6.12) 18 February 2004
- Richard & Judy 4 February 2004
- Style Star in episode: Sarah Michelle Gellar 24
January 2004
- Talking to Animals (episode # 1.7) 3 August 2003
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 1 August 2003
- Pepsi Smash playing Host (episode # 1.3) 30 July 2003
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn 19 May 2003
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien 3 October 2002
- Celebrity Adventures in episode: Papua New Guinea
(episode # 1.3) 1 October 2001
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn 1 October 2001
- The Big Breakfast 5 September 2001
- Howard Stern 24 August 2001
- Howard Stern 23 August 2001
- TFI Friday 16 June 2000
- The Wild Thornberrys playing Gerda (voice) in episode: Every Little
Bit Alps (episode # 2.36) 27 March 2000
- 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd playing Gigi (voice) in episode: Return of
Gigi (episode # 1.13) 12 February 2000
- 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd playing Gigi (voice) in episode: All Howls
Eve (episode # 1.4) 29 October 1999
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien 9 July 1999
- Donny & Marie 2 February 1999
- Picket Fences playing Peggy Patterson in episode: To Forgive Is Devine
(episode # 4.21) 19 June 1996
- Touched by an Angel playing Cassie Peters in episode: Cassie's Choice
(episode # 1.5) 26 October 1994
- Almost Home playing Samantha in episode: Hot Ticket (episode # 1.12) 5
June 1993
- Almost Home playing Samantha in episode: The Dance (episode # 1.10) 17
April 1993
- Roseanne playing Becky's Friend #2 in episode: Like, A New Job
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