Charisma Carpenter

Charisma Carpenter (born July 23rd 1970) is an American actress from the United States. Cordelia Chase was a character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer's supernatural drama series (1997-1999) and its spin-off series Angel (1999-04). Also, she starred as Kyra in Charmed (2004) and as Kendall Casablanca's character in Veronica Mars (2005-2006), Rebecca Sewell in The Lying Game (2012-2013) as well as Lacy in The Expendables film series (2010-2012). Carpenter was born in Las Vegas (Nevada), the daughter of Christine Carpenter as the bird sanctuary's worker, as well as Don Carpenter, an entrepreneur. Carpenter is of Spanish (from the maternal grandfather), French and German descent. Carpenter attended the Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas. Carpenter was an active member of a song-and dance troupe which was a part of Las Vegas Valley. Carpenter's family moved to Rosario Beach (Baja California, Mexico) at the age of Carpenter was 15. She went to Bonita Vista High School and Chula Vista School of the Creative and Performing Arts. Following graduation, Carpenter traveled throughout Europe. Carpenter returned to San Diego in 1991 and worked as an aerobics teacher and videostore clerk as well as a property manager. 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 at the time that Henry Hubbard Jr., an ex-police officer from San Diego and serial rapist who was attacking them, swarmed the group. In the course of the fight the two friends as well as Hubbard were shot, causing him to flee the scene. Both of them were able to escape the assault. Hubbard was arrested, tried, and convicted and sentenced to 56 years of prison for a series of robberies and rapes. Carpenter used Hubbard's flashlight from the beach, which he'd left at the scene, and the flashlight ended up being the most important evidence against Hubbard.