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Cast & Character Biographies
Biographies of the cast & characters from Angel.
------------------- Alexis Denisof/Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
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 Alexis Denisof
Alexis was born in Salisbury, Maryland to Russian immigrants on
the 25th of February 1966. Alexis' family come from places all over the
world, from Russia, France and Ireland. He was raised by his mother in
Seattle, Washington where he attended the Seattle Country Day School,
and also Seattle is where he started his acting career. After high
school he applied for a one year scholarship at the London Academy of
Music and Dramatic Art, but instead he got a three year program which he
took instead. Alexis had by this time spent fifteen years in England, he
worked in theatre, did a few independent films and made a few high
profile TV appearances including one on UK TV drama Sharpe. In
1998 he returned to America, Los Angeles foe what started out to be only
a two week holiday with friends, but turned out to be a year full of
auditions. The third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer loomed and from
a recommendation from Anthony Stewart Head, with whom Alexis had worked
with on a production in England, Alexis took on the role as Wesley
Wydham - Pryce, a Watcher on the show. Originally he was only going to
be Wesley for a few episodes but then was called back to appear as
Wesley as a regular on Angel, which is where's he's currently at now. In
between Buffy and Angel, Alexis returned to England and did one episode
of Randall & Hopkirk Deceased and then headed back to LA for
Angel. And as from December 1999 Alexis has been dating fellow Buffy
star Alyson Hannigan, who plays Willow on Buffy.
He enjoys scuba diving, horse back riding and swimming, his favourite TV
shows include Becker and also enjoys music, including Nirvana. |
 Wesley Wydham -
Pryce
Wesley first arrived in Sunnydale after Rupert Giles, previous
Watcher of Buffy Summers, was fired. Wesley was his replacement and was
to act as the Watcher for both Buffy Summers and Faith. But neither
slayer took much of a liking to his presence and neither did anyone else
in Sunnydale apart from Cordelia Chase. There was some attraction
between Cordelia and Wesley, but Wesley didn't want to date a student of
the high school. On the Watcher front things gradually got worse as
Faith had a taste of the dark side and liked things there, and became a
rogue slayer, working against the Council. Buffy was beginning to not
like the way Wesley ran the show as it was and she quit the Council,
leaving Wesley with no slayers to "watch" and the Council
fired him because of his lack of any Watcher qualities. The last time we
see him in Sunnydale is on a stretcher being led off in an ambulance. We
next see him in Los Angeles with Angel, a rogue demon hunter. But again
he was tracking the wrong demon, but somehow manages to save part of the
day. Angel offers him a job in LA working with him and Cordelia in Angel
Investigations, and Wesley snaps up the opportunity. As the months went
on there were several disagreements in the business, especially when
Angel went a bit dark and Wesley ran the show for a while. Angel soon
returned, but Wesley still ran Angel Investigations. At one point Wesley
was fed false prophecies about Angel's son, and so to protect the child
he was planning to run away with the child, but all didn't turn out
well. He got his throat slit and everyone at Angel Investigations turned
their backs on Wesley. He's now working alone, killing demons with a few
of his own "employees".
Wesley worked alone for a while, but as events in LA got worse he was
accepted back to working with Angel and co. He lost his love, Lilah, to
Cordy who killed her and has since moved on slowly. After giving up on
his love for Fred, Fred turned the tables on him and told him her true
feelings. From this point on Wesley seemed like a changed man. With the
love of his life by his side nothing could seem to go wrong. But things
did, Fred died and the demon who killed her and was born from her walked
around with her face on. Wesley very nearly cracked under the grief but
he did pull himself together. Though it was not long until true memories
of the previous few years came back to him, Connor, Lilah everything.
And under this new pressure Wesley looked sure to drop at any moment,
but he kept plugging on. He was a partner alongside Angel until the end.
Before the Apocalypse came Wesley was kill in battle fighting a powerful
demon warlock Cyvus Vail.
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------------------- Alexis Denisof - Filmography -------------------
- Tarzan & Jane (2002) - Nigel Taylor
- Beyond the City Limits (2002) - Yuri
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Tarzan & Jane (2002) (V) (voice) - Nigel Taylor
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Rogue Trader (1999) - Fernando Gueller
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Noah's Ark (1999) (TV) - Ham
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Misadventures of Margaret, The (1998) - Dr. Lipi
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Hostile Waters (1997) (TV) - John Baker
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Sharpe's Waterloo (1997) (TV) - Rossendale
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Sharpe's Justice (1997) (TV) - Rossendale
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Sharpe's Revenge (1997) (TV) - Rossendale
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True Blue (1996) - Ed Fox
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First Knight (1995) - Sir Gaheris
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Innocent Lies (1995) - Christopher Wood
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Faith (1994) (TV) - Joel
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Romeo & Juliet (1994) (TV) - Tybalt
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Dakota Road (1992) - Jacob
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Neige et le feu, La (1991) - David
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Murder Story (1989) - Tony Zonis
------------------- Alexis Denisof - TV Appearances -------------------
- Talking to Animals playing Himself (episode # 1.7) 3
August 2003
- Celebrity Adventures playing Himself in episode: Papua New Guinea
(episode # 1.3) 1 October 2001
- The Legend of Tarzan playing Henry (voice) in episode: New Wave
(episode # 1.25) 1 October 2001
- Batman Beyond playing Zander (voice) in episode: The Curse of the
Kobra: Part 2 (episode # 3.11) 10 February 2001
- Batman Beyond playing Zander (voice) in episode: The Curse of the
Kobra: Part 1 (episode # 3.10) 3 February 2001
- Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) playing Richard Shelley in episode:
Paranoia (episode # 1.4) 8 April 2000
- Highlander playing Steve Banner in episode: Diplomatic Immunity
(episode # 6.4) 26 October 1997
- Crime Traveller in episode: Fashion Shoot (episode # 1.3) 15 March
1997
- Soldier Soldier playing Lt Bob Steadman in episode: Proud Man (episode
# 4.6) 1994
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