Charisma Carpenter
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Charisma Carpenter
Charisma Lee Carpenter (born July 23, 1970) is an American actress of Mexican and Cherokee descent. She is best known for playing the character Cordelia Chase in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.
Personal life
Carpenter was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she attended Bishop Gorman Catholic High School before moving with her family to Chula Vista, California, where she attended Chula Vista High School. After graduation, she was a San Diego Chargers cheerleader before beginning her Hollywood career. In 2002 she got married to Damian Hardy and on March 24, 2003 she gave birth to a boy, Donovan Charles Hardy.
Career
On the cover of Playboy, June 2004Carpenter was discovered by a commercial agent when she was a waitress, leading to several roles on TV advertisements. She has made guest appearances in Baywatch, Miss Match and has had a role in Malibu Shores. She also a recurring role in the popular witch drama Charmed, appearing in three episodes.
In 2004, Carpenter posed nude for the June 2004 issue of Playboy magazine.
As of 2005, Carpenter has a recurring role as Kendall Casablancas on Veronica Mars. Her role in the season's overall mystery has not yet been revealed.
Charisma Carpenter Favorite Faumous Quotes
- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
- Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
- All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
- You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
- I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chosethough not always what I pleased.
- Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.
- Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.
Frank Moore