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June 27, 2018 / 4:59 PM

Alyson Hannigan lands role in Season 2 of 'Pure'

Actress Alyson Hannigan has joined WGN America's "Pure" for Season 2. File Danny Moloshok

Actress Alyson Hannigan has joined WGN America's "Pure" for Season 2. File Danny Moloshok | License Photo

June 27 (UPI) -- How I Met Your Mother and Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Alyson Hannigan has signed on as a recurring guest star for Season 2 of the Mennonite crime drama Pure.

The actress will begin filming in July her role of Esther Dunkel, "a lapsed Mennonite who is nobody's fool and has been helping her lawyer-boyfriend funnel a fortune in cartel cash through a local bank," WGN America said in a news release Wednesday.

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The show stars Ryan Robbins and Alex Paxton-Beesley as Noah and Anna Funk, a pastor and his wife trying to rid their community of drugs and the crimes related to them. Also joining the cast for Season 2 are Chris Heyerdahl, Zoie Palmer and Victor Gomez.

Season 1 of Pure is slated to premiere on the cable network in early 2019.

Hannigan was also recently cast in the Disney Channel movie Kim Possible.

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