
Alyson Hannigan is comfortable hamming it up in front of a camera. She's been doing just that since she began posing for her photographer parents' ads in Washington, D.C. Her parents divorced when Alyson was two, and when she was four, her mother moved with her to Atlanta, where she began acting and appearing in commercials. Her first ad was a print ad for Delta, and soon to follow were ads for Six Flags, Oreos, and McDonald's.

Hannigan became a TV commercial veteran following her family's move to Atlanta. From the age of four, Hannigan appeared in a steady stream of commercials, including ones for Oreo and McDonald's. At the age of 11, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television. She made her big-screen debut in the 1988 film My Stepmother Is an Alien, as Dan Aykroyd's daughter.