Alyson Hannigan played the computer nerd turned witch in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her birthname was Allison Lee Hannigan. She was a child star, and appeared in hundreds of commercials and TV shows. Her first big break came when she was fourteen, when she landed a role in the film …

Amber Nicole Benson played shy Wiccan Tara Maclay. Amber was born in Birmingham, Alabama on January 8, 1977. She started acting when she was a teenager. She studied dancing and singing and did amateur community theatre. Her family moved to Los Angeles to help her career, and she has since …

Anthony played Rupert Giles. Anthony was born on February 20, 1954. His father was Seafield Head, a documentary filmmaker who created Verity Films, a British production company. His mother was Helen Shingler, who was an actress. She played Madame Maigret in Maigret. Tony’s brother Murray Head, is also an actor …

Charisma Carpenter played Cordelia Chase. Charisma moved to Los Angeles from Las Vegas (where she was born) and met her agent whilst working as a waitress. She took acting classes and was then cast in several commercials, including one for Secret deoderant which ran for a long time. Charisma then …

Prior to playing Vampire-With-A-Soul™ Angel, David Boreanaz played ‘Vampire’s victim’ in the film A Macabre Pair of Shorts. He was famously ‘discovered’ whilst walking his dog and cast for the part of Angel the next day. David has appeared n the fourth Crow movie, and starred in the movie Valentine. …

Emma played ex-vengeance demon Anya. She was born on April 8, 1973, and her birth surname was Emma Chukker. She is half German on her father’s side and her mother is a singer who is Irish-American. Emma’s older sister, Samantha Killebrew, is a department store manager in San Diego. …

James Marsters played the English vampire Spike though he’s actually Californian. He was born in the northern logging town of Greenville, California, and raised in Modesto, California.
James studied at Juilliard then did a lot of theatre acting. He appeared in episodes of Andromeda, Northern Exposure and Strange Frequency. He had …

Marc played Riley Finn. Marc was born in Pennsylvania on January 11th, 1972. His full name is Marcus Paul Blucas. He played basketball during high school, and at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Marc also played for the Manchester Giants in England for a year. Marc later got a …

Michelle played Dawn Summers. Michelle started acting in commercials when she was just three years old. She grew up in New York but moved to Los Angeles. She appeared for two years on the soap All My Children as Lily Montgomery, alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar. Michelle starred in the movies …

Nicholas Brendon played Xander Harris. His original goal in life was to play professional baseball, but he had to give up that goal when he broke his arm which would never fully recover enough for him to continue playing. Before getting the role of Xander, Nicholas had 13 jobs, all …

Sarah Michelle Gellar played Buffy Summers. Sarah was born on April 14, 1977. She was ‘discovered’ by an agent when she was just 4 years old whilst eating in a local restaurant. She then starred in various commercials as a child actor and in 1993, she was cast as Kendall …

Seth Green played guitarist and werewolf Oz. Like many of his Buffy co-stars, Seth started acting as a child in commercials. Seth then appeared in a few movies including playing the boyfriend of Alyson Hannigan’s character in My Stepmother is an Alien. Jodie Foster’s production company, Egg Pictures, is named …