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Cast & Character Biographies
Biographies of the cast & characters from Angel.
------------------- David Boreanaz/Angel
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David Patrick Boreanaz
David was born on May 16th 1971 in Buffalo, New York. Raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Boreanaz watched his father,
Dave Roberts, forecast the weather on WPVI television. However, it was an electrifying stage performance of Yul Brynner in "The King and I" which inspired Boreanaz to pursue an acting career. After graduating from New York's Ithaca College, Boreanaz moved to California. Like most young aspiring actors, Boreanaz studied his craft while struggling to make a living as a house painter and valet.
In 1993 when he was cast as Kelly Bundy's biker boyfriend on Fox TV's hit show, Married... With Children. However, it would take three more years for Boreanaz to get his big break. In 1996, a talent manager saw Boreanaz walking his dog and, as reported by Baldwin, "told him he'd make a perfect Angel." Joss
Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, liked the fact that Boreanaz had little acting experience. Whedon told Baldwin, "We didn't have a lot of money, and he didn't have a lot of [acting] credits, so we were able to get him for cheap." Of course, Boreanaz's low price was not his only attraction. "After the audition," Whedon continued, "all the women were shaking. We were lucky in that he also turned out to be an incredibly talented actor."
In January 1998 David married Ingrid Quinn, they claimed it was love at
first sight, but in October 1999 they divorced. Three years later David
proposed to his girlfriend, ex - Playboy model, Jaime Bergman. They
married on 24th November 2001 at the Ingleside inn in Palm Springs. The
wedding was meant to take place in September 2001, but due to the
terrorist attacks that took place that month the wedding was postponed.
They had their first child on May 1st 2002, Jayden Rayne. David also has
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Angel
Before Angel was the vampire that he is now he used to be known
as Liam, born in Galway, Ireland in 1727 and in 1753 he was born as the
vampire Angelus. As a human Liam was a terrible disappointment to his
father, which is what led him to being turned. One night out with a
friend Liam got drunk and fell for the looks of age old vampire Darla,
who turned him in an alley that night. Angelus & Darla traveled
across Europe leaving a path of death and destruction behind them. One
night while in Romania Darla brought a gypsy girl for Angelus to feed on
unbeknownst to them that this gypsy girl was one of the most treasured
daughter of her clan. The gypsy clan wanted revenge for what Angelus had
done so they created curse, the cursed Angelus by returning his human
soul and so he could remember all the past killings he had done. With
his human soul and now calling himself Angel, he hid away from humans.
During the Boxer Rebellion in China in the early 1900's Angel tried to
get Darla to take him back, but Darla figured out that he was only
killing and feeding the murders, rapists and thieves and he was out on
his own yet again.
In 1996 a demon called Whistler approached Angel in New York, he brought
Angel to see Buffy Summers, slayer to be in Los Angeles. Angel swore to
help Buffy on her way. Angel followed Buffy to Sunnydale where he helped
her on her way, the two fell madly in love. One night of passion led to
a moment of perfect happiness which caused Angel to lose his soul and
once again become Angelus, the ruthless vampire and began the killing
spree again determined to make the rest of Buffy's life a living hell.
Jenny, a teacher at Sunnydale High was a part of the gypsy clan who
created the curse for Angel. Jenny attempted to recreate the curse but
Angelus got to her first and killed her. The curse was found on a disk
by Willow and she attempted to re-curse Angelus before the end of the
world came about, which Angelus was trying to bring about. It worked,
but only a bit too late and Buffy was forced to kill him. Angel returned
a few months later from the hell he had been and again his and Buffy got
very close, but he knew it could never be so left for Los Angeles where
he met Cordelia and Doyle a half demon to guide him on his way.
The local evil incorporated, Wolfram & Hart, brought back Darla from
the dead and after one night of passion Darla was strangely pregnant
with Angel's child. Complications at the birth meant that Darla had to
sacrifice her own life to save the child's. Angel named the child
Conner, but it seemed everyone was after this strange child of two
vampires. Including an old enemy, Daniel Holtz. As a vampire Angel
killed his family and turned his daughter. Holtz was brought back to
kill the child and Angel on behalf of a demon who couldn't. Holtz had
other plans and stole the child from Angel and brought him up in a hell
dimension. When the child returned only a few weeks later he had grown
into a fully grown teenager and not willing to make Angel his father.
Holtz staged his own death to make it look like Angel had killed him and
then helped send Angel to the gloomy under water depths in his own
coffin.
Angel was saved from his watery grave by an unlikely hero, Wesley. Angel
then went on to look for Cordy and she appeared all of a sudden back
from her trip as a higher being. Angel then spent some of his time
trying to bring Cordy's memory back, which she had lost. A spell was
done, and it did bring Cordy's memory back but she found she couldn't
stay with Angel and so stayed with his son Conner. To Angel's disbelief
Conner & Cordy had a child together, but in truth it was a demon.
Angel helped kill the demon but Cordy was still in a coma. To save her
and his son, he made a deal with Wolfram & Hart, to have their LA
offices. Angel's now the CEO, managing director of the LA branch of a
multi-dimensional corporation - Wolfram & Hart.
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------------------- David Boreanaz's Filmography -------------------
- Kingdom Hearts II (2005) (VG) (voice) - Squall Leonhart
- Bones (2005) - Special Agent Seeley Booth
- These Girls (2005) - Keith
- The Hard Easy (2005) - Roger Hargitay
- Mr. Fix It (2005) - Lance Valenteen
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Crow: The Wicked Prayer (2004) - Luc Crash/Death
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I'm with Lucy (2002) - Luke
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Kingdom Hearts (2002) - Leon (Squall Leonhart)
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Valentine (2001) - Adam Carr
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Macabre Pair of Shorts (1996) - Vampire's victim
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Best of the Best II (1993) (uncredited)
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Aspen Extreme (1993) (uncredited)
------------------- David Boreanaz's TV Appearances -------------------
- On-Air with Ryan Seacrest playing Himself 2 April 2004
- Last Call with Carson Daly playing Himself 4 February 2004
- The Sharon Osbourne Show playing Himself 3 February 2004
- The New Tom Green Show playing Himself 1 August 2003
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn playing Himself 19 May 2003
- Baby Blues playing Johnny (voice) in episode: Teddy-Cam (episode #
2.3) 3 February 2002
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn playing Himself 21 September
2001
- Mad TV playing Himself (episode # 6.14) 3 February 2001
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien playing Himself 13 October 1999
- Saturday Night Live playing Himself (uncredited) (episode # 24.19) 15
May 1999
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show playing Himself 20 April 1998
- The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show playing Himself 26 January 1998
- Married... with Children playing Frank in episode: Movie Show (episode
# 7.21) 11 April 1993 |
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