Charisma Lee
Carpenter (born July 23, 1970) is an American actress.
She is best known for playing the character Cordelia
Chase in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
and its spin-off Angel.
Personal life: Carpenter was born in Las Vegas,
Nevada, where she attended Bishop Gorman High School. At
15, the family moved to Rosarito B.C., 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.
Career: Carpenter was discovered by a commercial
agent when she was 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 7 years playing Cordelia Chase, 3 years on Buffy
the Vampire Slayer and 4 years on Angel, Charisma was
not invited back as a regular for Angel's fifth and
final season. She agreed to return for the 100th episode
although she wasn't asked until Sarah Michelle Gellar
turned down the chance to guest star in the episode.
She also had a recurring role as a psychic demon called
The Seer in the popular witch drama Charmed, appearing
in three episodes.
Carpenter modeled nude for 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 had a recurring role as Kendall Casablancas in
the TV series Veronica Mars for the 2005-2006 season.
Charisma recently 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, costarring with
Nicholas Brendon, one of her costars from Buffy the
Vampire Slayer.
Carpenter 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.
Carpenter 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. 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.
Charisma Lee Carpenter was born on July 23, 1970, in Las
Vegas, NV to Don and Chris Carpenter. She began studying
ballet at five and was a participant in numerous beauty
contests. She attended Las Vegas’ Bishop Gorman High
School before her family moved to Mexico when she was
15. While living in Mexico, Carpenter commuted to Bonita
High near San Diego, CA before finally graduating from
Chula Vista School of Creative and Performing Arts.
By 1991, Carpenter finally used her skills as a one-time
high school cheerleader to leave behind a series of
mundane jobs to become a member of the pom-pom shaking
San Diego Chargers’ cheerleading squad. The following
year, she upped the ante on her dreams, moving to Los
Angeles, where she was "discovered" while
working as a waitress. Signed by a commercial agent, the
brunette beauty was soon booked on several television
spots, which in turn led to her landing her first role
on a 1994 episode of “Baywatch” (NBC/Syndicated,
1989-2001). This part helped her earn a subsequently
bigger gig – that of Ashley Green – on uber-producer
Aaron Spelling’s primetime soap, “Malibu Shores”
(NBC, 1996) – a show that, despite having an
extraordinarily limited run, managed to produce a number
of successful actors, including Barry “7th Heaven”
Watson and Keri “Felicity” Russell.
Although she appeared on several other forgotten shows
in the months on “Malibu Shores,” Carpenter’s
career did not truly begin until she auditioned for
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Despite being passed
over for the lead role (which went to Sarah Michelle
Gellar, Carpenter caught the attention of the show’s
producers and was cast as Cordelia Chase, the archetypal
shallow cheerleader who reluctantly at first, joins in
the fight for good alongside Buffy. At the show’s
fictional Sunnydale High School, Cordelia was at once
popular, rich, beautiful and cruel. Eventually, however,
her social status plummeted – partially as a result of
her joining Buffy’s clique of vampire hunters.
After two years of paying her dues on “Buffy,”
Carpenter moved on to a new show, but did not stray far
from the Buffy universe – or “Buffyverse” – as
fans called it. Turns out, her character Cordelia the
cheerleader moved from Sunnydale to Los Angeles where
she joined fellow “Buffy” alum David Boreanez on the
spin-off “Angel” to continue doing battle with
underworld demons. Although she was written off the show
in 2003, fan support brought her back for
“Angel’s” 100th episode in 2004.
With few exceptions – among them the 2001 comedy
“The Groomsmen” – Carpenter spent her career in
television. After leaving the “Buffyverse,”
Carpenter appeared in multi-episode guest arcs on
“Charmed” (WB, 1998-2006) and the failed “Miss
Match” (NBC, 2003) with a series of single episode
appearances on other shows. She also made quite the
splash w/ “Buffy” nerds the world over when she
appeared on the cover of the June, 2004 issue of Playboy
magazine, which inside, featured in a 10-page spread of
the former vampire-killing babe. In 2005, Carpenter
returned to television in a recurring role as the
gold-digging trophy-wife Kendall Casablancas on the
“Buffy”-influenced detective series, "Veronica
Mars" (UPN/CW, 2004- ), starring break-out star,
Kristen Bell.
Charisma Carpenter Profile,
Photos, Biography, Films, Quotes, Wallpapers, Contact
address and more at WhoABC.com Celebrities Guide.
Find
everything about your favorite celebrities women and
men, official sites, and contact addresses, Browse photo
galleries of famous actors, actresses, models, and other
celebrities. Get the latest on your favorite hottest
actors and acctresses with entertainment news, celebrity
biography, profile, photos, autographs, wallpapers,
quotes, films .. and much more.
Browse
Celebrities and Models
We offer you a huge selection of Free High Quality Desktop Wallpapers, Biographies, also we provide a mailing address and contact details for requesting autographs and sending fan mail.
Snoron Celebrities and Models Wallpapers 
