Charisma Carpenter

Charisma Carpenter was born on July 23rd in 1970. Cordelia Chase played the character as Cordelia in Buffy the Vampire's supernatural drama (1997-1999) and the spin-off show Angel (1999-04). Also, she was a character in Charmed (2004) as well as Kendall Casablanca's (2005-2006), Rebecca Sewell (2012-2013) and Lacy (2010-2012) Carpenter was born in Las Vegas (Nevada), the daughter of Christine Carpenter who is the bird sanctuary's worker, and Don Carpenter, an entrepreneur. She is of Spanish (from her maternal grandfather), French and German descent. Carpenter was a student at the Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas; she was also part of a song-and-dance troupe which performed in the Las Vegas Valley when she was just nine years old. old.When Carpenter was 15, her family moved to Rosario Beach, Baja California, Mexico and then to San Diego, California. She attended Bonita Vista High School and Chula Vista School of the Creative and Performing Arts. Following graduation, Carpenter traveled throughout Europe. After returning to San Diego, she worked as a video store clerk as well as an aerobics instructor as well as in property management. She was a cheerleader with San Diego Chargers football in 1991. In 1992, she moved to Los Angeles. She was swimming in San Diego with two male friends when Henry Hubbard Jr., an ex-police officer from San Diego and serial rapist who was attacking them, swarmed them. The two of them, Henry Hubbard Jr. and her companions were shot during the battle. Both of them survived. Hubbard was found guilty and sentenced to 56 years prison for a string of rapes and thefts. Carpenter carried Hubbard's police-issued flashlight from the beach, that he had left at the scene, and the flashlight was a key piece of evidence used against Hubbard.