Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Characters

Name: Buffy Anne Summers Actor: Sarah Michelle Gellar Profile: The chosen one - the Vampire Slayer, whose skills have been passed down through generation after generation. Buffy finds it difficult to balance her responsibilities as the Slayer, with her duties as a high school pupil.

Name: Alexander "Xander" LaVelle Harris Actor: Nicholas Brendon Profile: Buffy's best friend along with Willow. Xander has no special powers, and is in fact something of a coward - yet, when push come to shove, he will never let his friends down.

Name: Willow Rosenberg Actor: Alyson Hannigan Profile: Buffy's best friend along with Xander. The bookworm of the group, who discovers witchcraft can be a powerful weapon in the fight against evil.

Name: Cordelia Chase (1-4) Actor: Charisma Carpenter Profile: The schools social climbing diva, who thinks that life is a popularity contest - and she's winning. That is, until her father becomes broke, and she finds out there's more going at the school than people are letting on.

Name: Rupert Giles Actor: Anthony Stewart Head Profile: Buffy's Watcher, sent by the Council to guide Buffy in her duties as the Slayer. Giles is Buffy's teacher, advisor and confidante, as well as becoming something of a father figure.

Name: Angel / Angelus (1-4) Actor: David Boreanaz Profile: A Vampire whose has been cursed with a soul by Gypsies. He now remembers his killing spree and is consumed with remorse. Angel becomes romantically involved with Buffy.

Name: Daniel Osbourne "Oz" (1-4) Actor: Seth Green Profile: Willow's love interest. There's nothing exceptional about Oz, he's a regular high school kid who plays in a band - until there's a full moon, then he turns out to be a werewolf.

Name: Spike / William the Bloody (2-7) Actor: James Marsters Profile: Spike was not known as William the Bloody for nothing - he and Angelus went on a killing spree which lasted a few centuries. Spikes killings also include Vampire Slayers.

Name: Riley Finn (4-5) Actor: Marc Blucas Profile: A key member in The Initiative, a secret government project designed to stem the flow of demon activity around the Hellmouth by implanting behavioural inhibitor chips in demon brains - including Spike's.

Name: Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins / Anyanka (3-7) Actor: Emma Caulfield Profile: Anyanka became a vengeance demon after her husband Olaf's betrayal, but was made mortal when Giles destroyed her power source. Anya and Xander then begin to date.

Name: Dawn Summers (5-7) Actor: Michelle Trachtenberg Profile: The Key, which is sent by monks to Buffy for her to protect, and given the human form of Buffy's sister.

Name: Tara Maclay (4-6) Actor: Amber Benson Profile: Willow's love interest.

Name: Joyce Summers (1-5) Actor: Kristine Sutherland Profile: Buffy and Dawn’s mother. Divorced from her husband Hank, she moved to Sunnydale with Buffy to start her own art gallery.

Name: Jonathan Levinson (2-4, 6-7) Actor: Danny Strong Profile: Shy, quiet, nerdy boy who tries to kill himself at school, but is saved by Buffy. Later returns to team up with Warren Meers and Andrew to take over Sunnydale.

Name: Andrew Wells / Cyrus (5-7) Actor: Thomas Lenk Profile: Bond wannabe who is in actual fact a powerless nerd. Bands with Jonathan and Warren with the intention of taking over Sunnydale.

Name: Faith (3-4, 7) Actor: Eliza Dushku Profile: A Vampire Slayer, who finds that fine line between good and evil way too fuzzy.

Name: Glory (5) Actor: Clare Kramer Profile: A god who wants to take over the world, but first she must find the Key - which is protected by Buffy.

Name: Wesley Wyndham-Pryce (3) Actor: Alexis Denisof Profile: A Watcher sent by the Council to replace Giles. Unfortunately, he is far too academic and completely without experience.

Name: Principal Snyder (1-4) Actor: Armin Shimerman Profile: Principal of Sunnydale High School, where Buffy and the Scooby gang go to school - and fight demons.

Name: Drusilla (2-5) Actor: Juliet Landau Profile: A Vampire driven made by Angelus and Spike.

Name: Harmony Kendall (1-5) Actor: Mercedes McNab Profile: Spike's "love interest".

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