Born in Buffalo, New York on 16th May 1969 to parents David and Patti, David has two older sisters, Beth and Bo. His parents moved to Philadelphia which is where David was raised.

David was inspired to act at an early age by a performance of 'The King And I' starring Yul Bremner.

David attended Rosemont School of the Holy Child until the age of 14 when he moved to Malvern Prep. School, from here he went on to Ithica College where he majored in Film Studies at the Roy H. Park School of Communications. He graduated in 1991 with a BS degree in Cinema and Photography.

After graduating from college David headed for Hollywood where he parked cars and handed out towels in gym for a living whilst trying to get an acting break. That break famously came while he was walking his dog, Bertha Blue, through Hollywood and was spotted by manager Tom who decided he was either going to date David or make him a star. Whilst he failed on the first point he succeeded on the latter and Tom is David's manager to this day.

After finding a manager the jobs came in slowly until he was chosen as the mysterious Angel in new show Buffy The Vampire Slayer, both fans and producers of the programme fell in love with him and he became a series regular for seasons two and three until he was given his own show, Angel. Angel had a successful run on the WB and kept a loyal fanbase for five years before finally being cancelled.

David's first marriage to Ingrid Quinn in 1997 was shortlived and they divorced in 1999 citing irreconcilable differences. In 2001 David married his current wife, actress Jaime Bergman, who gave birth to his first child, Jaden Rayne in 2002, and his second child, Bardot Vita in 2009.

Since the end of his series, David has kept busy having appearing in many, mainly independent films, and starring in Fox's hit crime drama, Bones which is now in it's 5th season having just reached the 100th episode which David also directed, and has already been renewed for a sixth season.

Trivia

David is the only actor to have appeared in the first and last episodes of both Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel.

Charisma was born in Las Vegas and named after an Avon perfume. At the age of 5 Charisma started studying classical ballet and was entered in many local beauty contests. At the age of 15 she moved with her parents to Mexico where she attended high school and was, like her character in Buffy, a cheerleader. After graduating from the Chula Vista School of Creative and Performing Arts, in 1988 she travelled to Europe before attending college.

Before moving to LA in 1992, Charisma worked in property management and as an aerobics instructer as well as being a cheerleader for the San Diego Chargers. Her acting career started with a number of theatre productions and commercials before she landed a role in an episode of Baywatch in 1994 which lead to starring role in Spelling's Malibu Shores.

Charisma loves dangerous sports including rock climbing and has also been skydiving as well as safer activities such as horse riding and rollerblading.

The role of Cordelia having played itself out by the end of season four of Angel, Charisma made one final but pivotal appearance in the 100th episode 'You're Welcome'. Charisma has had no difficulty finding work since leaving Angel and has guest-starred in many shows including, Charmed, Miss-Match and Veronica Mars as well as doing a phot shoot for Playboy magazine and most recently a Tv Movie alongside Nicholas Brendon.

Trivia

Charisma originally auditioned for the role of Buffy but bagged the role of Cordelia whom she would end up playing for seven years. Ironically Sarah Michelle Gellar, who plays Buffy was originally cast as Cordelia.

Charisma has a tatoo of a tribal sun on her bback and a rosary on her wrist which caused some problems whilst filming Angel.

Charisma gave birth to a son, Donovan Charles Hardy in March 2003

Glenn Quinn was born May 28th, and raised in Cabinteely, Co Dublin where he attended Clonkeen College. In 1989 he moved with his mother and two sisters to the United States where he became an actor. As well as many minor film and TV roles, Glenn landed a recurring role in the sitcom Roseanne.

When he landed the short-lived role of Doyle on Angel, Glenn was pleased to be able to use his own accent. In his short time on the series, Glenn became fast friends with David Boreanaz. Although there was much speculation as to why his much-loved character was written out of Angel so early on, the show's producers maintained that the role was always meant to be a brief one.

As well as acting Glenn played drums and quitar.

Glenn tragically died of a drugs overdose on 3rd December 2002 and, as his fans had mourned over the heroic death of his character, Doyle, they now mourn his actual passing.

May he rest in peace.

Alexis Denisof was born in Salisury, Maryland, USA to Russian parents, and raised in Seattle and attended boarding scool in New Hampshire. On graduating from high school Alexis travelled to Europe and studied at the London Acadamy of Music and Performing Arts an later joined the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company. He lived and worked in England for some time, where he appeared in the series Sharpe, starring Sean Bean, worked with Tony Head and dated Caroline Aherne, famous for Mrs Merton and the Royale Family. Alexis still has a home in the UK.

Travelling to the US with friends, Alexis found himself getting involved in the festival circuit and once he started working he couldn't stop and has remained in the US to this day.

He eventually landed the guest startring role of Wesley Wyndam-Pryce on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and, after surviving the season three finale was aksed to join the cast of Angel halfway through the first season and there he remained to the end of the show.

It was during his time on Buffy that he met Alyson Hannigan, they struck up a close friendship but it wasn't until he was working on Angel that they started dating. Alexis proposed to Alyson during a romatic picnic in Napa Valley, California and the pair married in October 2003.

Since Angel ended Alexis has guest starred alongside co-star Amy Acker and his wife, in her new show How I Met Your Mother had a run on the stage in Liverpool, UK in All My Sons and most recently a recurring role on Joss Whedon's latest sci-fi series, Dollhouse.

J was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Bladensburg, Maryland. Although his parents wanted him to become a lawyer, J knew that he wanted to act at an early age and studied performing arts at high school. Determind to succeed, J applied to just one college, the University of Southern California and luckily won himself a place.

After graduation J got regular work in TV appearing in many succesful series including, The Cosby Show, Chicago Hope and The West Wing before landing the role of street wise Charles Gunn for the last three episodes of Angel's first season. J became a series regular in the second season and remained until the show ended.

Since Angel ended J has continued to work, appearing on stage and landing a lead role in the Law & Order series, Conviction, and more recently, Raising the Bar

Trivia

J's mother always wanted him to become a lawyer, in Season five of Angel, J's character Gunn became a lawyer and he went on to play another laywer in Conviction and again in Raising the Bar.

Amy was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She studied ballet from an early age and majored in acting at Southern Methodist University, where she graduated in 1999. Amy worked in modelling and acting in Wisconsin and New York before moving to LA and ladning the role of Fred in Angel. She remained with Angel, although she changed roles for the last few episodes, to the end of the series.

Since Angel ended, Amy has continued to work landing a recurring role in Alias and guest starring in Alyson Hannigan's show How I Met Your Mother alongside Alexis Denisof. More recently she guest starred and played a pivotal role in Joss Whedon's latest sci fi series, Dollhouse and gained a part in his forthing coming "horror movie to end all horror movies" Cabin in the Woods.

Most recently Amy starred in ABC's, Happy Town and has had guest spots on The Good Wife and Human Target.

Trivia

When Amy mentioned to Joss Whedon that she had trained as a dancer for 14 years he created an episode centered around her dancing talents. However, her dancing scene ended up on the cutting room floor, and can only be seen as a DVD extra.

Amy married fellow actor James Carpinello in April 2003, they have two children, Jackson James Carpinello born in January 2005 and Ava Grace Carpinello born in September 2006

Vincent, named after Vincent Van Gogh is the youngest of 6 siblings, he has 4 sisters and one brother and was born and raised in Minneapolis.

Vincent starting acting a a young age and trained Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. Before landing the role of Connor in Angel, Vincent had mainly worked in film.

Since Angel ended Vincent has continued to work, appearing both on stage and in two films in 2006. He is currently continuing his run on the highly critically acclaimed and award winning AMC seriesMad Men alongside >Christina Hendricks

Trivia

Vincent claims to have visited all 50 states of America, however, when pressed he has admitted this to be a slight over exageration.

Andy was born and raoised in Cape Cod, Osterville. He attended Barnstable High School and then Assumption College in Worcester. He developed a passion for singing after Patti LaBelle invited him onstage at a concert.

Andy moved to Los Angeles with a school friend who happened to be related by marriage to Joss Whedon. Joss and Andy became friends and would frequent downtown LA Karaoke bars. It was at one of these bars that Joss conceived the idea of The Host for his series, Angel. Although the character was based on Andy, he had to audition for the role but thakfully got the part.

Andy appeared regularly throughout Seasons Two, Three and Four of Angel before being made a cast regular towards the end of Season Four. Andy stayed with the show to the end.

Since Angel's end Andy has taken the part of another green character, the cricket in new animated film, Gepetto's Secret.

Andy sadly passed away suddenly due to heart failure in 2009 at the age of just 33, he will be greatly missed.

Trivia

Before ever appearing on Angel, Andy allegedly appeared as a 'student' in one scene of Buffy The Vampire Slayer's Season Four episode 'Hush'.

Mercedes was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to father, Bob McNab, former professional footballer for UK club Arsenal. She moved to Los Angeles with her parents at the age of 9 and started acting from age 10 when she landed a role in the Adams Family as a young girl scout.

Although she originally auditioned for the role of Buffy, Mercedes landed the role of Harmony in the unaired pilot. Her character recurred regularly through the seasons before becoming moving across to Angel as a regular in it's fifth and last season.

Since Angel ended, Mercedes has continued to work, mainly in film, although with a few notable guest spots in long running series including Supernatural and Criminal Minds, and she has followed in Charisma Carpenter's footsteps doing a photo shoot for Playboy.

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