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Full Name: Charisma Lee Carpenter
Date of Birth: 23 July, 1970
Place of Birth: Las Vegas
The following was taken with thanks from Wikipedia with some
editing done by me.
Personal life
Charisma Carpenter was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she
attended Bishop Gorman High School. She is of Cherokee, Irish,
Scottish, and Spanish ancestry on her mother's side and French
and German on her father's side. When she was 15, the family
moved to Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, and then to Chula
Vista (a suburb of San Diego) where she attended Chula Vista
High and Bonita Vista High. After graduation, she was a San
Diego Chargers cheerleader in 1991 before beginning her
Hollywood career. She had also dabbled in sky-diving. She
married her French fiancé Damien Hardy on October 5, 2002 and
she gave birth to son Donavan Charles Hardy on March 24, 2003.
Carpenter and Hardy separated late in 2007. Charisma has a large
scar on her belly from a childhood accident. While five years
old, and playing around a swimming pool that was still under
construction, she fell onto a piece of rebar. The scar was
incorporated into Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the episode
"Lovers Walk", when her character fell onto an exposed piece of
rebar. Charisma has four tattoos; a tribal sun on her lower back
that represents life, a rosary on her left wrist as a reminder
to stay centered, D² on the inside of her right wrist to
represent the names of her husband and son, and the infinity
symbol on her left ring finger beneath her wedding ring.
Career
Charisma was discovered by a commercial agent while working as a
waitress. This led to several roles on TV advertisements. She
made guest appearances in Baywatch and Miss Match, and she has
had a role in Malibu Shores. Her best known role was that of
Cordelia on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
After seven years of playing Cordelia Chase (three years on
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and four years on Angel), Carpenter
returned for Angel's 100th episode in the fifth and final
season, explaining that she thought Cordelia fans deserved
closure after the controversy of her unexplained removal from
the show.
Carpenter became good friends with Holly Marie Combs during the
filming of See Jane Date and this friendship led to her three
episode guest stint on Charmed as a psychic demon called The
Seer.
She appeared on the cover and posed for a nude pictorial in the
June 2004 issue of Playboy magazine. She made the decision to
pose as a way to motivate herself to lose her pregnancy weight.
The photos were taken ten months after she gave birth to her
son.
Carpenter has played three characters with the ability to tell
the future. In Angel, her character, Cordelia, received visions
from The Powers That Be. On Charmed, she played Kira, the Seer,
who counted premonitions among her powers. In Voodoo Moon, she
could tell the future through her drawings.
In March 2005, casting for Revolution Studios's big-budget
remake of John Carpenter's The Fog was underway. The role of
lighthouse radio deejay Stevie Wayne (a character originated by
scream queen Adrienne Barbeau) had suddenly become vacant after
Stacy Ferguson (a.k.a. Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas) left the
project. Carpenter was considered a possible replacement, but
was deemed 'too old' for the part and studio brass felt she
wasn't popular enough to help guarantee a box office draw. The
role eventually went to Selma Blair. Being passed up for the
part turned out to be a blessing in disguise as the film was
nearly universally panned for its shallow plot and poor acting.
As of January 2006, the film has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 5%.
Carpenter had a recurring role as Kendall Casablancas in the TV
series Veronica Mars for the 2005-2006 season, appearing in 11
episodes. She also starred in Voodoo Moon by writer/director
Kevin VanHook, as well as an assortment of made-for-television
movies. One such recent movie was called Relative Chaos on ABC
Family, co-starring with Nicholas Brendon, one of her co-stars
from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Carpenter guest-starred in the
season finale of ABC Family's television show Greek.
According to TV Guide in September 2007, she was set to join the
cast of The Apprentice: Celebrity Edition, but instead chose to
do a guest appearance on the show Back to You as well as a
recurring role on Big Shots.
In 2008, it was announced that Paley Fest would be having a
Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion. Carpenter attended the event,
which was held on March 20th, 2008, alongside Buffy creator Joss
Whedon, producer Marti Noxon and other Buffy alum including
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, James Marsters, Emma
Caulfield, Amber Benson, Seth Green, and Michelle Trachtenberg.
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