Characters

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  Buffy Summers

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Emmy(R) Award-winning actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is a veteran of television, theatre and the big screen, having worked for nearly 19 of her 24 years. She is best known for playing the title role in the hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she received a Golden Globe(R) nomination in 2001.

   

  In 1997, Gellar starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2. She won a 1998 Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in I Know What You Did Last Summer and was nominated for a 1998 MTV Movie Award for her role in Scream 2. Her additional film credits include Cruel Intentions, Simply Irresistible, Harvard Man, Funny Farm, Over the Brooklyn Bridge and High Stakes. Gellar can also be seen in the Warner Bros. feature Scooby Doo, co-starring Freddie Prinze Jr.

   

  Gellar won an Emmy(R) Award in 1994 for her role on the daytime drama All My Children. She also starred in the made-for-television movie An Invasion of Privacy and the mini-series A Woman named Jackie, in which she played a young Jackie Kennedy.

   

  Her theatre credits include The Widow Claire at the Old Globe Theatre and Jake's Women, opposite Matthew Broderick, at Circle in the Square.

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  Angel

  David Boreanaz

  While relatively new to the world of acting when he landed a guest-starring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, David Boreanaz catapulted to stardom with his quiet intensity as the mysterious and tortured Angel and ultimately landed his own long-running series. Boreanaz also appeared in The Crow: Wicked Prayer, the fourth installment of the horror series, also starring Dennis Hopper, Edward Furlong, Tara Reid and Macy Gray.

   

  A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Boreanaz was exposed to television at a young age -- his father is a veteran weather forecaster for WPVI in Philadelphia. After graduating from Ithaca College, he moved to Los Angeles to try his luck in Hollywood.

   

  While studying the craft of acting, Boreanaz lived the life of a starving actor, making ends meet by parking cars, painting houses and handing out towels at a sports club. Yet, it was while walking his dog in a Hollywood neighborhood that a manager spotted his brooding, intense look and instantly signed him as a client. His first big break was a guest spot on Married... With Children playing Kelly Bundy's (Christina Applegate) biker boyfriend.

   

  In 2002 Boreanaz starred in the romantic comedy I'm with Lucy, with Monica Potter, Henry Thomas and Anthony LaPaglia. He also starred in the Warner Bros. thriller Valentine.

   

  On stage, Boreanaz has performed at the Ensemble Theatre in Hat Full of Rain, at the Gardner Stage in Italian-American Reconciliation and Fool for Love, and on theatre row in Cowboy Mouth. His feature film credits include Aspen Extreme, Best of the Best 2 and Eyes of the World.

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  Xander Harris

  Nicholas Brendon

  Nicholas Brendon turned to acting when his aspirations of playing professional baseball were squelched by a serious arm injury. He first appeared on television in a handful of commercials and guest-starring roles including Married With Children and Dave's World. Feeling slightly disenchanted with Hollywood, he took a personal hiatus to play the "real life" roles of medical student, production assistant, plumber's assistant, veterinary janitor, food delivery guy, script delivery guy, day care counsellor and waiter at approximately 13 different establishments.

   

  During his seventh year in the food and beverage industry, Brendon decided to give acting another try. Soon after, he landed the role of Xander in the hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and hung up his apron for good.

   

  Brendon's feature film credits include Psycho Beach Party and the horror film Pinata, in which he co-stars with his wife, Tressa Di Figlia.

   

  Brendon has also starred in the Los Angeles theatre productions of The Further Adventures of Tom Sawyer at Theatre West, My Own Private Hollywood at the Black Hole Theatre and Out of Gas on Lover's Leap at the Pasadena Playhouse.

   

  Off-screen, the Los Angeles native enjoys attending Dodger games, camping and spending quality time with friends and family. He also enjoys daydreaming of world travel, writing poetry, philanthropy and watching television programs on the A&E Network.

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  Willow Rosenberg

  Alyson Hannigan

  Alyson Hannigan is best known to television audiences as Willow on the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she won a Teen Choice Award and a Saturn Award.

   

  Her other television credits include Touched by an Angel, Picket Fences and Roseanne. She had a recurring role on the series Almost Home and was a series regular on Free Spirit.

   

  Her feature film credits include American Pie, American Pie 2, for which she won a Teen Choice Award, American Wedding, Date Movie, Beyond the City Limits, Dead Man on Campus and My Stepmother Is an Alien.

   

  Hannigan was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Atlanta.

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  Rupert Giles

  Anthony Head

  Anthony Stewart Head has enjoyed a successful acting career in his native England for many years, but before his role as Rupert "Ripper" Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it was a popular series of coffee commercials that brought him his greatest recognition in the United States. Head starred as the intriguing romantic lead in a dozen Taster's Choice commercials.

   

  He was a regular cast member on the sci-fi television series VR.5. He also guest starred on the series Highlander and NYPD Blue. Additional credits include the cable movie Royce with Jim Belushi and the feature films A Prayer for the Dying, Devil's Hill and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

   

  Head also starred in the original cable movie Best Actress, as well as the original television movie Silent Witness.

   

  Head has appeared in many British productions, most recently in Manchild, described as a British version of Sex and the City, albeit from the male perspective, and in the critically acclaimed Spooks, with Matthew MacFadyen, Peter Firth and Jenny Agutter, about the British spy organization, MI5.

   

  Born in Camden Town, England, Head grew up in a "show business family." His mother is an actress and is best known for her role as Madame Maigret in the British television series Maigret. His father was a documentary producer who created the British production company known as Verity Films. Head attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and got his first show business break playing Jesus in Godspell. He went on to star in a number of West End theater productions, including The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Julius Caesar, The Heiress, Chess, Rope and Peter Shaffer's Yonadab at the Royal National Theater.

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  Cordelia Chase

  Charisma Carpenter

  Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, Charisma Carpenter moved with her family to Mexico when she was 15. She had studied classical ballet since the age of five. She pursued dancing as part of her high school curriculum by commuting between Mexico and San Diego, California, to take classes at the School of the Creative and Performing Arts.

   

  Carpenter did not initially intend to pursue a career in acting, but fate intervened when she was discovered by a commercial agent while waitressing in Los Angeles to save for her college education. She went on to appear in more than 20 commercials, including one for Secret antiperspirant which ran for two years.

   

  Her first break in television came with a guest appearance on the popular series Baywatch. Shortly thereafter she landed an audition for Aaron Spelling, who cast her as a regular in the series Malibu Shores.

   

  Carpenter first came to fame as Cordelia Chase on Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. The popular character was then moved to the Buffy spinoff Angel.

   

  In 2004, after giving birth to her first child, Carpenter posed nude for Playboy.

   

  A fitness enthusiast, Carpenter's outdoor interests include rollerblading, rock climbing, hiking, and sky diving.