Charisma Carpenter played Cordelia Chase in the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off series Angel.
27 Facts About Charisma Carpenter
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Charisma Carpenter starred as Kyra in Charmed, Kendall Casablancas in Veronica Mars, Rebecca Sewell in The Lying Game, and Lacy in The Expendables film series.
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Charisma Carpenter is of Spanish, French, and German descent.
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Charisma Carpenter attended Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas; she was a part of a song-and-dance troupe which performed in the Las Vegas Valley when she was nine years old.
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When Charisma Carpenter was 15, her family moved to Rosarito Beach, Baja California, Mexico and then to San Diego, California.
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Charisma Carpenter attended Bonita Vista High School and Chula Vista School of the Creative and Performing Arts.
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Charisma Carpenter brought Hubbard's police-issue flashlight from the beach, which he had left at the scene, and the flashlight became a key piece of evidence used against him.
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Charisma Carpenter was discovered by a commercial agent while waiting tables in Los Angeles to save money for her college education.
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Charisma Carpenter made her first television role in 1994 by appearing in an episode of Baywatch.
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In 1996, Charisma Carpenter auditioned for the title role in The WB supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer but instead was cast as Cordelia Chase, a snobby and popular high school student.
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Charisma Carpenter played Cordelia Chase for four seasons on Angel.
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In 2004, Charisma Carpenter had a guest appearance in The WB fantasy drama series Charmed as a psychic demon named Kyra for three episodes and played a recurring role on NBC's Miss Match, appearing in four episodes.
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Charisma Carpenter guest-starred in the first-season finale of the ABC Family comedy-drama series Greek and reprised her role for two episodes of Season 2.
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Charisma Carpenter had a guest appearance in an April 2009 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation entitled "The Descent of Man".
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Charisma Carpenter attended the event alongside Buffy creator Joss Whedon, producers Marti Noxon and David Greenwalt, and other Buffy alumni including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield, Amber Benson, Seth Green, and Michelle Trachtenberg.
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Charisma Carpenter appeared in the original films Flirting with Danger and Cheaters' Club both on Lifetime and the Syfy original film House of Bones broadcast in 2010, around the same time as her guest spot in Legend of the Seeker.
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In 2009, Charisma Carpenter starred in production company Red Sparrow's first film, Psychosis, which was released on January 11,2011.
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Charisma Carpenter appeared in an episode of the seventh season of Supernatural alongside Buffy co-star James Marsters.
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In 2012, Charisma Carpenter landed a recurring role as Rebecca Sewell in the first season of ABC Family drama series The Lying Game.
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Charisma Carpenter was upgraded to a series regular for the second season.
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Charisma Carpenter starred in the 2015 erotic film Bound, alongside Morgan Obenreder, which received a lukewarm reception.
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In February 2021, Charisma Carpenter spoke out against director Joss Whedon in support of Ray Fisher who claimed to have experienced a toxic environment at the hands of the director.
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Charisma Carpenter accused him of dismissing her from Angel because of her pregnancy.
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Charisma Carpenter was named No 31 on AskMen's Top 99 Most Desirable Women 2002 and No 44 on their 2005 list.
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Charisma Carpenter appeared on the cover and in a ten-page nude pictorial of the June 2004 issue of Playboy magazine.
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Charisma Carpenter married Damian Hardy on October 5,2002, in her hometown of Las Vegas.
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In March 2003, Charisma Carpenter gave birth to a son, Donovan Charles Hardy.