Buffy Main Cast
by delenn7 | created - 24 Apr 2012 | updated - 18 May 2012 | Public
1. Sarah Michelle Gellar
Actress | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Emmy Award-winning Sarah Michelle Gellar was born on April 14, 1977 in New York City, the daughter of Rosellen (Greenfield), who taught at a nursery school, and Arthur Gellar, who worked in the garment industry. She is of Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish descent.
Eating in a local restaurant, ...
Title role of Buffy
2. Nicholas Brendon
Actor | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Nicholas Brendon was born three minutes after his identical twin brother, actor Kelly Donovan on April 12, 1971 in Los Angeles, California. He attended Chatsworth High School, where he struggled with stuttering but was also a starter on the baseball team. He had dreams of playing for the L.A. ...
Play Buffy's male best friend
3. Alyson Hannigan
Actress | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Alyson Hannigan was born in Washington, D.C. to Emilie (Posner), a real estate agent, and Al Hannigan, a truck driver. She began her acting career in Atlanta at the young age of 4 in commercials sponsoring such companies as McDonald's, Six Flags, and Oreos. She is a seasoned television actress, ...
Played Buffy's best female witch friend
4. Charisma Carpenter
Actress | Angel
Charisma Carpenter first made her television debut with a guest spot on Baywatch (1989), before receiving a call from legendary producer Aaron Spelling and subsequently being cast on the prime time soap opera, Malibu Shores (1996). But her big break - and the one that would forever change the ...
Play Buffy's rival and later hero on Angel
5. David Boreanaz
Actor | Angel
David was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Patti, a travel agent, and weatherman Dave Roberts (Boreanaz). His father is of Italian descent and his mother is of half Slovak ancestry. At the age of seven he decide to be an actor, which eventually ...
Played Vampire Angel/Angelus also human Liam and had the tit role of his own show Angel
6. Seth Green
Actor | Robot Chicken
Seth Green has starred in numerous films and television series including the Austin Powers trilogy, The Italian Job (2003), Without a Paddle (2004), Party Monster (2003), Can't Hardly Wait (1998), Old Dogs (2009) and dozens more, including starring roles in Sexy Evil Genius (2013), The Story of Luke...
Play Willow's werewolf boyfriend before she dated Tara
7. James Marsters
Actor | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
James graduated from Davis High School and attended Juilliard, the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, and the American Conservatory Theatre. After spending ten years doing stage work he finally moved to L.A. to pursue a career in film and television. After appearing in several guest roles...
Play a vampire Spike and Human William the Bloody and he was Buffy's enemy turned ally. He appeared both on Buffy and Angel.
8. Marc Blucas
Actor | Knight and Day
Marc graduated Girard High School in 1990. Marc played basketball throughout high school and his senior year. Because of his athletic ability, Marc went on full scholarship to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem North Carolina. After college, he played one year in Europe for the Manchester ...
Play Riley Finn, Buffy's short time boyfriend after Angel
9. Emma Caulfield Ford
Actress | WandaVision
Born as Emma Chukker and raised in San Diego, California, Emma Caulfield began studying drama at the La Jolla Playhouse and the Old Globe Theatre, where she won the distinguished honor of "Excellence in Theatre Arts". She picked up her drama studies once again at The American School in Switzerland ...
Played the longtime demon lover Anya of Xander
10. Michelle Trachtenberg
Actress | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Trachtenberg grew up in Brooklyn and started her acting career young; she began appearing in commercials at the age of 3.
She continued to act and dance through her school years, making regular television appearances from the age of 10. She landed a recurring role in the kids' TV show The Adventures...
Play Buffy's little sister Dawn from season 5 and on
11. Anthony Head
Actor | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Anthony Stewart Head was born on February 20, 1954 in Camden Town, north London, England. He grew up in Hampton, near Richmond upon Thames in London. He's the youngest son of Seafield Head (a documentary filmmaker) and Helen Shingler (an actress). He is the younger brother of musician/actor Murray ...
Play Buffy's watcher Giles
12. Amber Benson
Actress | Chance
Amber Benson was born on January 8, 1977 in Birmingham, Alabama. As a young girl, she studied singing, dancing as well as acting. While still in her teens, she was involved in productions at the local community theatre. Her family moved to Los Angeles soon afterwards in 1992 so she could pursue a ...
Played Willow's fellow witch girlfriend Tara
13. Eliza Dushku
Actress | Bring It On
Eliza Dushku was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Judith (Rasmussen), a political science professor, and Philip R. Dushku, a teacher and administrator. Her father is Albanian and her mother is American (of Danish, Irish, English, and German descent). She was discovered at the end of a five-month ...
Played Buffy's rival slayer Faith who appeared both on Buffy and Angel
14. Kristine Sutherland
Actress | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Kristine Sutherland's first love was theater. She went to an audition in high school as moral support for a friend but ended up auditioning herself. She worked as an actress on stage through the 80s, landing a few pilot roles as well as her small secretary part in Legal Eagles (1986) and her ...
Played Buffy's beautiful smart mother
15. Glenn Quinn
Actor | Angel
Quinn was born in Dublin, Ireland, and moved to the United States with his mother and two sisters in 1988. His first role was as a pool shark in the Richard Marx video Satisfied. He later landed a major role in the John Travolta film Shout (1991), where he shared a screen kiss with Gwyneth Paltrow....
Played Doyle a half demon in the first season of Angel
16. J. August Richards
Actor | Angel
Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in the Maryland suburb of Bladensburg, Richards discovered his love for acting at an early age and enrolled in a performing arts high school where he appeared in several plays a year. Academically confident and determined to move out to Los Angeles to pursue his...
Play vampire hunter Charles Gunn on Angel
17. Vincent Kartheiser
Actor | Mad Men
Known to audiences worldwide as spitfire advertising executive "Pete Campbell" on Matthew Weiner's Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG Award-winning drama series Mad Men (2007), Vincent Kartheiser has actually been acting since he was a teen. Starting with Untamed Heart (1993), alongside Marisa Tomei, ...
Played Angel's son in Angel
18. Andy Hallett
Actor | Angel
Andy Hallett is from the tiny Cape Cod village of Osterville, part of the town of Barnstable. He attended Barnstable High School and then Assumption College in Worcester. Always shy, he didn't begin singing until Patti LaBelle invited him onstage at a concert. After moving to Los Angeles he worked ...
Play the singing demon Lorne on Angel
19. Mercedes McNab
Actress | Addams Family Values
Mercedes McNab has been acting professionally since she was 10 years old. She was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, but moved with her parents to Los Angeles at age 9. She wanted to be an actress and soon landed an agent.
Her first role, at age 10, is probably her best-known: a bit ...
Played Harmony Kendall, Cordelia friend and follower and eventually become a vampire. She appeared on both shows.
20. Juliet Landau
Actress | A Place Among the Dead
Juliet Landau is an actress, director, producer and writer. As an actress, highlights include her role as "Drusilla" on Joss Whedon 's Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) & spin-off Angel (1999), and co-starring in Tim Burton's Ed Wood (1994) as "Loretta King". She played the recurring role of Rita ...
Played sexy vampire Drusilla on both shows.
21. Harry Groener
Actor | A Cure for Wellness
Harry Groener was born on September 10, 1951 in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. He is an actor, known for A Cure for Wellness (2016), Patch Adams (1998) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997). He has been married to Dawn Didawick since September 19, 1978.
Played the evil mayor in Buffy season 3.
22. Mark Metcalf
Actor | National Lampoon's Animal House
Mark Metcalf was born on March 11, 1946 in Findlay, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), One Crazy Summer (1986) and Oscar (1991). He was previously married to Elizabeth Marie Wick.
Played the major villain vampire boss the Master in both series.
23. Lindsay Crouse
Actress | The Arrival
Lindsay Crouse was born on May 12, 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for The Arrival (1996), Slap Shot (1977) and The Insider (1999). She has been married to Rick Blue since 1998. She was previously married to David Mamet.
Play a bitch professor in Buffy's season 4.
24. George Hertzberg
Actor | Taken
George Hertzberg was born on November 6, 1972 in Glens Falls, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Taken (2008), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and That's My Bush! (2001).
Played the part-human-cyborg-demon Adam in season 4.
25. Clare Kramer
Actress | Bring It On
A graduate of New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, Clare earned her BFA in just three years.
While in New York, Clare appeared in numerous stage plays including one turn as Helen Keller in the stage version of "The Miracle Worker", the lead role in "Light Up the Sky" at the ...
Played Glory the main villain of season 5.
26. Adam Busch
Actor | Léon
Attended the East Meadow Public School System. In High School he stole the leads of all the plays. He was in Theatre Guild. Graduating in 1996, he was voted Most-Dramatic in the Senior Superlatives although he spent much of senior year in Florida filming The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (1996). He ...
Played the leader of the comical/villainous trio on Buffy.
27. Danny Strong
Producer | Dopesick
Danny Strong started his career as an actor in numerous classic films and TV shows such as Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Gilmore Girls, then transitioned into screenwriting, exploding onto the scene with his 2007 script Recount which was #1 on the Hollywood Blacklist and became an award winning HBO ...
Was part of the trio.
28. Tom Lenk
Actor | Room 104
Tom Lenk is a SAG award winning actor whose stage and screen work include starring roles in "American Horror Stories," "Barb & Star," "Batwoman," "NCIS: Hawaii/NOLA," "Transparent," "HBO's Room 104," "Workin' Moms," "Bones," "Episodes," "Cabin in the Woods," "Transformers," "Much Ado About Nothing,...
Was part of the trio, but eventually become part of the scooby gang. Appeared on both shows.
29. Elizabeth Anne Allen
Actress | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Elizabeth Anne Allen was born on November 18, 1970. She is an actress, known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), JAG (1995) and The Tower of Babble (2002).
Played victim first on Buffy then eventually Willow's witch rival.
30. Bailey Chase
Actor | Longmire
Bailey was born in Chicago but moved to Florida after his parents divorced at a young age. He attended Duke University on a football scholarship and majored in Psychology. After graduation, Bailey moved to LA to pursue his boyhood dream of acting which encompassed a training stint in London (LAMDA)...
Played Riley's friend and classmate.
31. Leonard Roberts
Actor | Drumline
Leonard Roberts was born on November 17, 1972 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Drumline (2002), American Sniper (2014) and Savages (2012).
Play Riley's black friend and classmate.
32. Iyari Limon
Actress | Dead Space
Iyari Limon was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, but in her infancy she and her parents made Southern California their new home. Although English is her primary language, she's fluent in Spanish from being raised in a Spanish- speaking household. She's also semi-fluent in French, and being of Spanish, ...
Played Willow's new girlfriend and slayer after Tara.
33. Robia Scott
Actress | Unplanned
Robia began her professional career in Hollywood as a dancer at the age of sixteen. She danced in numerous music videos before traveling the world with Prince starring as "Pearl" in his international tour Diamonds and Pearls. She also graced the album's cover and performed in multiple videos from ...
Played Giles technopagan girlfriend Jenny who was eventually killed by Angel.
34. Ken Lerner
Actor | The Goldbergs
Ken Lerner is an American television, stage and film actor who is perhaps most famous for playing "Principal Flutie" in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), the heartless HMO lawyer in Chicago Hope (1994), Kurt Russell's lawyer in Unlawful Entry (1992) and Rocco Malachi in Happy ...
Played principal Flutie in the first season of Buffy.
35. Julie Benz
Actress | Dexter
Julie Benz was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on May 1, 1972. Julie's father is a Pittsburgh surgeon and her mother is a figure skater. The family settled in nearby Murrysville, when Julie was two, and she started ice skating at age three. She competed in the 1988 U.S. Championships in ...
Played vampire on both shows and she became Connor's mother.
36. Armin Shimerman
Actor | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Armin Shimerman was born on November 5, 1949 in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), The Hitcher (1986) and BioShock (2007). He has been married to Kitty Swink since May 16, 1981.
Took the role of the Principal after Flutie got eaten. Though the evil mayor/snake eat him the graduation party.
37. Amy Acker
Actress | Angel
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas where she graduated Lake Highlands High School, Amy Acker is the oldest of four children; she has two sisters and one brother. An acting major at Southern Methodist University, Amy acted in several college theater productions. She appeared in various roles during ...
Played Fred and Illyria on Angel.
38. Elisabeth Röhm
Actress | American Hustle
Elisabeth Rohm will next be seen in the Roger Ailes biopic FAIR AND BALANCED for Lionsgate and director Jay Roach, portraying Fox News host Martha MacCallum, as well as Ted Melfi's THE STARLING opposite Melissa McCarthy.
Elisabeth recently wrapped production on the Lifetime feature FAMILY PICTURES ...
Play a detective Kate who was a brief friend of Angel.
39. Mark Lutz
Actor | Angel
Mark Lutz was born on Valentine's Day in Montréal, Québec. At the age of 13, he moved to Hong Kong and he lived there for 4 and a half years before moving to Toronto, where he finished high school. Mark attended the University of Guelph and graduated with an Honors BA in Political Science. It was ...
Played Cordelia's half demon lover on Angel.
40. Christian Kane
Actor | Just Married
Christian Kane was born in Dallas, Texas. Christian and his family moved around a lot throughout the South before settling down in Norman, Oklahoma. Christian attended the University of Oklahoma where he had plans to major in Art History. However, Christian wanted to try out acting, so he took his ...
Played Lindsey who was both ally and Enemy of Angel investigations.
41. Stephanie Romanov
Actress | Thirteen Days
Stephanie Romanov is an accomplished actress with many film and television credits to her name. Stephanie has held her own sharing the screen with Kevin Costner, Robin Williams, Keira Knightley, David Boreanaz, Sam Worthington, Andy Griffith, and Michael Murphy to name but a few. She has a broad ...
Played evil lawyer Lilah Morgan on Angel.
42. Alexis Denisof
Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy
Alexis Denisof was born on February 25, 1966 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), The Avengers (2012) and Angel (1999). He has been married to Alyson Hannigan since October 11, 2003. They have two children.
Played Faith's watched on Buffy and Angel's friend and coworker after Quinn got killed.
43. D.B. Woodside
Actor | Lucifer
David Bryan Woodside (born July 25, 1969) is an American actor. He is best known for his television roles as the bass singer Melvin Franklin in The Temptations, Robin Wood in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Malcolm Franks in Single Ladies, Dr. Joseph Prestridge in Parenthood, the angel Amenadiel in ...
Played the African American character principal wood in season 7.
44. Charlie Weber
Actor | The Painter
Charles weber is an American actor and former model. In 2014, Weber began starring as Frank Delfino in the ABC legal drama series, How to Get Away with Murder. Weber was born in Jefferson City, Missouri. He dropped out of college after a year and moved to New York City when he was 19 years old to ...
Played Ben "Glory's human male half"
45. Erik Betts
Stunts | Eagle Eye
Born 22 November, 1967 in Boston, Massachusetts, Erik Betts is a self taught gymnast and martial artist since the age of 11. His fascination with movement and the arts was inspired by his favorite comic book hero, Spiderman. Insecure and very shy, Betts could relate to the problems experienced by ...
Was a stunt-woman as Buffy and also played different villains.
46. Daniel Dae Kim
Actor | Insurgent
Daniel Dae Kim has made a career of creating multifaceted and stereotype-breaking roles as an actor, director and now, producer. Prior to his seven-season portrayal of Chin Ho Kelly on "Hawaii Five-0," Kim was best known for his role as Jin Soo Kwon on the hit TV series "Lost," for which he shared ...
Played a Chinese-American lawyer on Angel.
47. Sarah Thompson
Actress | 7th Heaven
Sarah Thompson was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for 7th Heaven (1996), Angel (1999) and Cruel Intentions 2 (2000). She has been married to Brad Kane since July 28, 2007.
Played Eve took over as liaison for the Senior Partners on Angel and Cordelia referred to her as "Lilah Junior."
48. Keith Szarabajka
Actor | Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Keith Szarabajka is an American actor from Illinois known for acting in The Equalizer, Angel, Argo and The Dark Knight. He also voice acted in several animated series and video games including Halo 4, Batman: Arkham Knight, Mass Effect, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Teen Titans, Dead Space, Ultimate ...
Played Daniel Holtz a vampire hunter and a enemy of Angel.
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