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. She has been nominated for a Saturn Award and her most recent work was a guest role in the television show Legend of the Seeker that aired in November 2009.
Carpenter was born in Las Vegas, Nevada to a Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, and Spanish mother a...
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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. She has been nominated for a Saturn Award and her most recent work was a guest role in the television show Legend of the Seeker that aired in November 2009.
Carpenter was born in Las Vegas, Nevada to a Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, and Spanish mother and French and German father. Carpenter attended Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas. When she was 15, her family moved to Rosarito city, Mexico and then to San Diego where she attended Bonita Vista High School and Chula Vista School of the Creative and Performing Arts. After graduation, Carpenter traveled throughout Europe. Once she returned to San Diego again, she worked as a video store clerk, an aerobics instructor, and in property management. In 1991, she was a San Diego Charger cheerleader, before beginning her Hollywood career. In...
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