Charisma Lee Carpenter, born December 28, 1970, in Las Vegas, NV, is an American actress. As a child, Carpenter developed an interest in performing and joined a song-and-dance troupe in the Las Vegas Valley. Her family later moved to San Diego, where she attended and graduated from the Chula Vista School of the Creative and Performing Arts. After graduation, Carpenter held down a variety of jobs, including video store clerk, aerobics instructor, and cheerleader for the San Diego Chargers. In 1992, she and her two friends were attacked by a serial rapist who attempted to subdue them at gunpoint. Carpenter and her friends fought him off, and he was eventually arrested, convicted, and sentenced to 56 years in prison.

Carpenter’s acting career began in 1994 when she was approached by an agent as she waited tables. She made her screen debut on an episode of the hit television show “Baywatch,” and quickly followed that with a starring role in the short-lived series “Malibu Shores.”

In 1996, Carpenter was cast as Cordelia Chase, the resident mean girl, on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” a series based on a little-seen, critically-reviled movie from 1992. "Buffy" quickly blew up and became a sensation, launching its cast to stardom. Carpenter played the role of Cordelia across three seasons of “Buffy” and four seasons of its spinoff series, “Angel.” During the latter's fifth and final season, she guest-starred on the milestone 100th episode, wrapping up her character’s storyline.

After exiting the Buffyverse, Carpenter continued to find work on television, appearing on the shows “Charmed,” “Scream Queens,” “Veronica Mars,” “Supernatural,” and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” among others. She also hosted the docuseries “Surviving Evil” on Investigation Discovery, and starred alongside Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, and Bruce Willis in the action films “The Expendables” and “The Expendables 2.”

In February 2021, Carpenter spoke out against Joss Whedon - the creator of “Buffy” and “Angel” - in support of fellow actor Ray Fisher, backing up Fisher’s claims that Whedon fostered hostile work environments on his sets, often pitting actors against one another and engaging in other psychological abuse. Carpenter accused Whedon of firing her from “Angel” because she was pregnant and alleged that her mistreatment on set led to her developing a chronic medical condition.

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