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Charisma Lee Carpenter (born July 23, 1970; English pronunciation: /kəˈrɪzmə liː ˈkɑːrpəntər/) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cordelia Chase in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel, for which she was nominated for four Saturn Awards. In her most recent film she starred opposite Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham in The Expendables (2010). She appeared in an episode of the seventh season of Supernatural alongside Buffy co-star James Marsters. Carpenter was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, the daughter of Chris, a bird... MORE

Charisma Lee Carpenter (born July 23, 1970; English pronunciation: /kəˈrɪzmə liː ˈkɑːrpəntər/) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cordelia Chase in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel, for which she was nominated for four Saturn Awards. In her most recent film she starred opposite Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham in The Expendables (2010). She appeared in an episode of the seventh season of Supernatural alongside Buffy co-star James Marsters. Carpenter was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, the daughter of Chris, a bird sanctuary worker, and Don Carpenter, a salesman. She is of French and German descent on her father's side and Cherokee and Spanish descent on her mother's side. Her parents named her after an Avon perfume. Carpenter attended Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas; she was also a part of a song-and-dance troupe which performed in the Las Vegas area beginning when she was nine. When she was 15, her family moved to Rosarito city, Mexico and then to San Diego where she attended Bonita Vista High School and Chula Vista School of the Creative and Performing Arts. After graduation, Carpenter traveled throughout Europe. LESS