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Following roles in Baywatch, Malibu Shores and Boy Meets World, Charisma Carpenter was launched into the public eye with Buffy the Vampire Slayer – but not in the role she originally went up for.
Initially, Carpenter had auditioned for Buffy, before executive producer Gail Berman and creator Joss Whedon asked her to read for popular cheerleader Cordelia and the rest, as the classic saying goes, is history.
Cordelia appeared for three seasons on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and then transferred over to spin-off show Angel where she appeared for the majority of the run until she was killed off in the show's 100th episode.
Following her exit from Angel, Carpenter starred in three episodes of Charmed, a handful of TV movies – including horror Voodoo Moon and thriller Cheaters' Club – and an 11-episode run on Veronica Mars which saw her reunite with Buffy star Alyson Hannigan. She had another Buffy reunion with James Marsters in Supernatural's season seven episode 'Shut Up, Dr Phil', where the pair played a married witch couple.
She got her biggest movie role to date in 2010 playing Jason Statham's long-time girlfriend Lacy in The Expendables and its sequel in 2012, although Carpenter wasn't in the third movie – but maybe she should be glad of that given how it turned out.
Carpenter made further TV guest star appearances in the following years, appearing in the likes of Greek, Burn Notice, Blue Bloods, Sons of Anarchy and ABC's teen drama The Lying Game, which ran for two seasons from 2011-2013, while her most recent TV appearances have been in Lucifer's season two episode 'Weaponizer' and Criminal Minds: Beyond Borderslast year.
She has also hosted three seasons of Investigation Discovery's true crime series Surviving Evil, with the first episode seeing her revisit the 1991 attack which saw Carpenter and her two friends violently attacked by police officer Henry Hubbard Jr. Her two friends suffered non-fatal bullet wounds, but Carpenter managed to hold onto a police-issue flashlight Hubbard used that helped to seal his conviction.
Away from the screen, Carpenter got married to Damian Hardy in October 2002 and gave birth to a son, Donovan Charles Hardy, in March 2003, before the couple separated in 2007 and their divorce was finalised in July 2008.
Carpenter also appeared on the cover and a 10-page nude layout of Playboy's June 2004 issue which she did for a "very specific reason".
"Not only was it a good financial move, but it was about the place I was at in my life. I had just had my son and I'd gained 50lbs during pregnancy," she told People. "I wanted to get back to my old self. I wanted to feel desirable and sexy. So I thought, 'What if I went full throttle?'"
Of the upcoming movies Carpenter is scheduled to appear in, only family sci-fi Mail Order Monster and drama The Griddle House are likely to be seen, with the latter having a scheduled release date for late 2018.
