Summer Glau was born on July 24th 1981, in San Antonio, Texas. Summer trained and performed as a dancer throughout her teenage years until a serious injury forced her to take time to heal. During this time, while visiting friends in Los Angeles she got the part of the Prima …

The unnamed Prima Ballerina in the Blinnikov World Ballet Corps was cursed to dance the same performance of Giselle forever. She had had an affair with another man which caused the jealous Count Kurksov to put the spell on her. Following Angel’s advice, she changed the routine, allowing Angel to …

Allie hired Wesley and Gunn to get rid of her ex-boyfriend Brian who was stalking her in Provider. They eventually found out that she had actually poisoned and killed Brian, and despite his being a zombie, the couple reconciled their differences and agreed to give the relationship another try.

David Denman played Skip in Angel. He appeared in an episode of David Boreanaz’s show Bones as Phil Garfield, and played Roy in the US version of The Office. David has also appeared in When a Stranger Calls, Night Stalker, Big Fish, The Singing Detective, Out Cold, The X …

Gavin Park was transferred from the Real Estate Division of Wolfram & Hart to the Special Projects Division, much to the surprise of Lilah Morgan. Parks decided to fight Angel his own way - by burying him in bureaucratic red tape, and building code violations. In the guise of showing …

John Rubinstein played Wolfram & Hart lawyer Linwood Murrow during Angel’s third season. He is the son of famous pianist Arthur Rubinstein, and was born on December 8, 1946 in Los Angeles. He played the title role in the musical Pippin on Broadway, and has appeared in Getting Straight, The …

Linwood Murrow was a special representative of the Senior Partners at Wolfram & Hart. A man so ruthless, he even allowed the Senior Partners to take away his children. As President of Special Projects Division, he was the direct superior of Lilah Morgan and Gavin Park. Unconcerned with Wolfram & …

Laurel Holloman played vampire hunter Justine Cooper in Angel. Born on May 23, 1971 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina she is probably best known for playing the role of Tina Kennard on The L Word. Holloman made her film debut in Maria Maggenti’s The Incredibly True Adventure of Two …

Justine’s twin sister Julia was killed by vampires, leaving her to seek vengeance for her loss. She was recruited by Holtz in his war against Angel, and became his right-hand woman, though he treated her roughly. Utterly devoted to Holtz, Justine aided him to kidnap Connor, even slitting Wesley’s …

Sahjhan had the ability to shift between different times and dimensions. An extremely violent demon (with a dry sense of humour) he conspired with Holtz to get rid of Connor, who was prophesized to kill him. Sahjhan rewrote the prophecies and Wesley read them to believe that Angel would …

In The Initiative, Giles shows Buffy a rough sketch of the mystery storm troopers that have been spotted around campus:
Giles: .”..fairly accurate you’d say?”
Buffy: “That’s your man.”
Giles: “Your man, actually.”
This is a subtle foreshadowing of Buffy developing a relationship with Riley, and the Inititive.

In Nightmares, Giles says when he finds out what’s happening, “there should be a musical comedy version of this”. In Once More, With Feeling Willow sings, “I’ve got a theory; some kid is dreaming and we’re all stuck inside his whacky Broadway nightmare”. That indeed would be a musical comedy …

When Fred goes to Caritas in Fredless, she finds Lorne drinking, watching TV, and smoking a cigarette, which he immediately puts out. This is the first time Lorne is seen smoking. We also see him smoking in Spin the Bottle.

Fred’s parents, Roger and Trish Burkle were devastated when their beloved daughter disappeared. They hired a private eye to locate her which led them to Angel Investigations. The gang initially thought Fred was frightened of her parents, and believed they were untrustworthy. They were in fact perfect parents, and, after …

The Angel episode Carpe Noctem is named after a goth magazine that ran in the 1990s. It was best known for Jhonen Vasquez’s Johnny the Homicidal Maniac comic. The name Carpe Noctem is a pun on the Latin expression ‘carpe diem’ (”seize the day”) meaning “seize the night.”