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Cast & Character Biographies
Biographies of the cast & characters from Angel.
------------------- Charisma Carpenter/Cordelia Chase
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Charisma Carpenter
Charisma was born on July 23, 1970 in Las Vegas, she was named
after an Avon perfume. She studied classical ballet since age 5. As a
youngster, she entered many local beauty contests. Charisma attended
Gorman High School in Las Vegas. At 15, they moved to Rosarita City,
Mexico, and then to Bonita, a suburb of San Diego, where she attended
Bonita High. Charisma finally transferred to Chula Vista School of
Creative and Performing Arts, where she graduated in 1988.After
graduating, she traveled throughout Europe, then went on to college. She
also worked as an aerobics instructor and in property management. In
1991, Charisma was a cheerleader for the San Diego Chargers. In 1992,
she moved to L.A. Charisma audited classes at Playhouse West, and was
cast in over 20 major commercials, including doing a long stint for
Secret. Charisma was in a number of theatre productions, such as
"No, No, Nanette" and "Welcome Home, Soldier." This
tall (5'7") beauty with the striking looks, brunette hair with
chestnut highlights, and hazel eyes, was a natural for TV; she started
in an episode of "Baywatch" in October, 1994. Because of that
appearance, Aaron Spelling personally auditioned her for the role of
Ashley in "Malibu Shores," which had a brief run from
March-June, 1996. Despite the short run, TV Guide noticed her and said
she was beguiling, and had the most fleshed-out character on the show.
Charisma auditioned for the title role in "Buffy" but wound up
being cast as Cordelia instead after Bianca Lawson turned down the role
of Cordelia. Charisma had doubts about this, she did not want to play a
bitchy character again; but her agent told her, you can't be typecast
until people know you. Originally intended as a temporary character, to
be a thorn in Buffy's side, Charisma's role was popular enough that she
became a regular in the 2nd season. She is quick to point out she is not
the TV persona, saying: "People might think I'm this awful person,
but I'm not -- I'm a nice girl." Fans and producers liked the
character enough that she was transferred to a bigger role on the
spin-off series "Angel." A long career in TV now seems assured
for Charisma.
Her hobbies include: horseback riding, rollerblading, hiking and rock
climbing. (For her 26th birthday, she had gone skydiving. When the folks
at WB heard about this, they made her sign a clause that she would
refrain from that for the length of her contract.) She has prudently
switched to writing poetry instead. Her favorite color is yellow.
She married Damian Hardy in October 2002 and has had her first child -
Donavan Charles Hardy on the 24th March 2003. |
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Cordelia Chase
Cordelia Chase was THE girl of Sunnydale High school. She was
head cheerleader and the most popular girl in school, though not known
to be one of the nicest. She had a group of friends, collectively they
were known as the Cordettes, each being some of the richest girls in the
high school. When Buffy Summers first arrived in Sunnydale Cordelia saw
the potential in her to be one of her friends, but after Buffy also made
friends with school freaks and geeks Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris,
Buffy was shunned by Cordelia. Cordelia began to hang around with Buffy
when she noticed a certain guy who was to her liking, Angel, though
nothing happened as Angel had eyes for only one girl, Buffy. As time
went on Cordelia was saved on many occasions by Buffy and the rest of
the gang and she got close to one person whom she never thought anything
could happen between, Xander Harris. They shared a passionate kiss and
they became a couple. Though not without a few hitches, Cordelia's
friends, one of them Harmony didn't think that Cordelia was worthy of
being their friends anymore because she was dating Xander. Cordelia
thought the answer to her problem was to ditch Xander, but it wasn't and
soon they were together again. But again this didn't last too long as
Xander was found to be in a lip lock, momentarily, with Willow. Cordelia
broke things off and tried to get back to her old self, but it was
harder than she thought and settled to be who she was, accepting that
she wasn't going to be with the same group of friends she previously
was. When new Watcher Wesley came into town Cordelia fell for his
strange English charms. But on the home front things weren't looking
good. Her parents hadn't paid their taxes for pretty much forever and so
Cordelia found she couldn't accept any places various universities
offered her and so headed to the bright lights of LA to seek fame and
stardom. In LA Cordelia bumped into LA and being saved from a vampire by
him joined the Angel Investigations team.
Cordy got very close to fellow team member Doyle, but he sacrificed his
own life to save people he cared about, Cordy soldiered on. Before Doyle
passed away he passed on his visions to Cordy. But after a year of
having these visions which weren't meant for a human, they took their
toll and launched Cordy into a coma. In that coma she met a demon guide,
Skip, who converted her into half demon so that she could take these
visions. Over the years of working alongside Angel Cordy got growing
feelings for the vampire, but when she tried to act on them she was
called to a higher purpose and ascended leaving Angel behind.
It appeared, all of a sudden, Cordy returned from her little sojourn on
the higher plain. But she had lost her memory. The only person she could
confide in was Conner and that's what she did, to Angel's disbelief. One
thing led to another and Cordy & Conner slept together which in turn
made Cordy pregnant. But the pregnancy wasn't normal, it was moving
along much faster than a normal one and Cordy herself was changing. On
the night Cordy's baby was born, Cordy herself fell into a coma, from
which she has not yet awakened from. Her baby was not a baby, as much a
full grown adult demon in humanoid form known as The Devourer/Jasmine.
Jasmine tried to conquer the world, but was stopped by Angel and
partially Conner. Cordy is currently being looked after by the medical
experts at Wolfram & Hart. Unfortunately Cordy didn't wake up from
her coma and she died. But she did have a final adventure, helping Angel
get back on track through the powers that be. |
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------------------- Charisma Carpenter's Filmography -------------------
- Voodoo Moon (2006) - Heather
- See Jane Date (2003) (TV) - Jane Grant
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The Groomsmen (2001) - Kim
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Time Warrior: Chapter 6, Last Battle for the Universe (1996) - Beth Sullivan
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Malibu Shores (1996) TV Series - Ashley Green
------------------- Charisma Carpenter's TV
Appearances -------------------
- Veronica Mars playing Kendall Casablancas in
episode: Everybody Cries Wolf February 2006
- Veronica Mars playing Kendall Casablancas in episode: Death in a
Taxi January 2006
- Veronica Mars playing Kendall Casablancas in episode: My Mother,
The Fiend (episode 2.9) 30 November 2005
- Veronica Mars playing Kendall Casablancas in episode: Ahoy Mateys
(episode 2.8) 23 November 2005
- Veronica Mars playing Kendall Casablancas in episode: Nobody Puts
Baby in the Corner (episode 2.7) 16 November 2005
- Veronica Mars playing Kendall Casablancas in episode: Rat Saw Dog
(episode 2.6) 9 November 2005
- Veronica Mars playing Kendall Casablancas in episode: Cheatty
Cheatty Bang Bang (episode 2.3) 12 October 2005
- Veronica Mars playing Kendall Casablancas in episode: Driver Ed
(episode 2.2) 5 October 2005
- Veronica Mars playing Kendall Casablancas in episode: Normal Is
the Watchword (episode 2.1) 28 September 2005
- Charmed playing Kira in episode: Witchness
Protection (episode # 7.10) 28 November 2004
- LAX playing Julie Random in episode: Thanksgiving (episode # 1.9)
10 November 2004
- Charmed playing Kira in episode: Styx Feet Under (episode # 7.5)
10 October 2004
- Charmed playing Kira in episode: Cheaper by the Coven (episode #
7.3) 26 September 2004
- The Division playing Emma Campbell in episode: Now I Lay Me Down
to Sleep (episode # 4.14) 16 May 2004
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn playing Herself 6 May 2004
- Miss Match playing Serena Lockner in episode: Santa, Baby (episode
# 1.10) 12 December 2003
- Miss Match playing Serena Lockner in episode: Something Nervy
(episode # 1.3) 10 October 2003
- KTLA Morning News playing Herself 11 August 2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live playing Herself 14 July 2003
- Miss Match playing Serena Lockner in episode: Most Hopeless
Romantic (episode # 1.17)
- Miss Match playing Serena Lockner in episode: Divorce Happens
(episode # 1.15)
- Strange Frequency playing Jules in episode: Don't Fear the Reaper
(episode # 1.11) 11 November 2001
- KTLA Morning News playing Herself 29 October 2001
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn playing Herself 15 October
2001
- Celebrity Undercover playing Herself in episode: Charisma
Carpenter
- The Howard Stern Radio Show playing Herself 3 April 1999
- Hey Arnold! playing Simone (voice) in episode: Dinner for
Four/Phoebe Skips (episode # 4.5) 31 March 1999
- Vibe playing Herself 17 April 1998
- The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show playing Herself 8 January 1998
- The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show playing Herself 31 October 1997
- Boy Meets World playing Caterer in episode: Train of Fools
(episode # 3.10) 15 December 1995
- Baywatch playing Wendie Sanders in episode: Air Buchannon (episode
# 5.5) 24 October 1994
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