34 Facts About Piper Halliwell

Piper Halliwell is a fictional character from the American television series Charmed, played by Holly Marie Combs from October 7,1998, until May 21,2006.

Piper Halliwell receives the power to cause evil beings or objects to explode using her hands, by instead speeding up molecules to the point of combustion.

Piper Halliwell later develops a more aggressive and protective personality when she becomes the eldest sister from season four onwards, following Prue's death and the introduction of their younger half-sister Paige Matthews.

Piper Halliwell's storylines have often revolved around her protecting innocents and defeating the forces of evil in San Francisco with her sisters, as well as leading a normal life as a chef for a restaurant and later as the owner of a nightclub.

The character of Piper Halliwell was conceived by Burge, who wrote the pilot script for Charmed.

Piper Halliwell having already moved back into her family's Victorian Manor with her eldest sister Prue, is later joined by their youngest sister Phoebe.

Leo subsequently proposes marriage to Piper Halliwell claiming that once married The Elders will not have the power to break them apart.

Leo is taken into captivity by The Elders as punishment for breaking their rules and Piper Halliwell is left heartbroken.

Leo and Piper Halliwell are finally allowed to wed in mid-season three.

Piper Halliwell's son is discovered to be The Twice-Blessed Child, the most powerful magical being of all time, which attracts even more demons into the sisters' lives.

Piper Halliwell is so angry that she initially refuses to give up her temporary powers, though Leo uses his newfound powers to artificially alleviate her pain.

Piper Halliwell begins to recover from her separation from Leo and date again, though Chris tries to stop this from happening.

Piper Halliwell uses these powers to defend herself from demons dispatched to kill her by old enemy Barbas.

Piper Halliwell informs Piper of his decision in the episode "There's Something About Leo" and later urges the sisters to join sides with The Avatars in their plan to turn the world into a utopia against the warnings of Paige's boyfriend Kyle Brody and The Elders.

Piper Halliwell realises her children's pain over their father's loss and allies with The Underworld's new leader, Zankou, to force The Avatars to rewind time to before the change took place.

The eighth and final season begins with the sisters assuming new identities, with Piper Halliwell assuming the identity of Jenny Bennett and later Jamie Bennett.

Piper Halliwell has had a third child, a girl named Prudence Melinda and is planning on opening her own restaurant.

Piper Halliwell can cast spells, often written in iambic pentameter or as a rhyming couplet, to influence others or the world around her.

Gradually, Piper Halliwell learned to control this ability and freeze everything in the immediate area by a conscious act of will and gesturing.

Piper Halliwell must be able to gesture to activate her freezing power and cannot do so without using her hands.

Piper Halliwell learns to selectively freeze specific objects of her choosing, rather than everything in the entire area.

When Piper Halliwell was new to her powers, objects she froze would eventually regain their mobility on their own, usually after several seconds.

Piper Halliwell later learns to unfreeze at will, even freezing an entire object, then unfreezing only part of it.

Indoors Piper Halliwell is limited by the room she is in.

Notably, unlike how one proved vulnerable to her combustion power, this was while the Triad was still at full power though they were seen to be starting to unfreeze before Piper Halliwell unfroze them herself.

Piper Halliwell proves able to cause magical energy discharges and even living entities to explode.

Apparently, Piper Halliwell doesn't have to be directly in front of an object to blow it up, she just has to see it or know exactly were the object is.

Piper Halliwell was able to vanquish one of The Triad, three very powerful demons who had no known way of vanquishing them with just three hits from the power, albeit after he was weakened by the vanquish of one of his comrades.

Piper Halliwell is proven to be a skilled chef, a talent which lends itself to her potion-making.

Piper Halliwell was nominated for Best Science Fiction Lead Actress at the same awards ceremony in 2002 and won that category in 2003.

PopMatters Michael Abernethy wrote that Combs was "the most enjoyable to watch" and noted that her character Piper Halliwell played "the role of compassionate mediator between her two sisters" in Charmeds first three seasons.

Piper Halliwell could handle the drama handily, and anchored the show with her acting chops and Neve Campbell-esque brunette good looks.

In 2007, Piper Halliwell was ranked third on AOL TV's list of Top TV Witches, behind Samantha Stephens from Bewitched and Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Piper Halliwell ranked third on the same list the following year.