After a long run as popular character Cordelia Chase on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Charisma Carpenter has stayed busy on TV and in movies. One cool thing about a show running as long as Buffy did, is that its characters got years to grow and evolve, and came to feel more real than many TV characters that fans only really get to experience on a surface level before the show in question is canceled or ends.
As a side effect of its long run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer saw many of its characters spend time on both sides of the good and evil fence, with even Buffy herself threatening to cross that line at certain times. Cordelia is one of the best examples of a Buffy character evolving, beginning life as a shallow, bullying mean girl that looked down on Buffy and her friends, but ending up as one of their closest allies.
Sadly, Cordelia met an unfortunate end during her run on Buffy spinoff Angel, but fans will always have their memories. Meanwhile, Carpenter herself didn’t go on to A-list superstardom, but has carved out a respectable career, appearing in over 50 big and small screen roles.
What Charisma Carpenter Has Done Since Buffy The Vampire Slayer Ended
Following her three-season run as Cordelia on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Carpenter and the character hopped over to become a regular on Buffy‘s spinoff Angel, where she remained for four seasons. In 2004, Carpenter recurred as Kira aka The Seer on Charmed, a friendly demon who expressed a desire to become a human being. By 2005, Carpenter had started recurring on Veronica Mars in the role of Kendall Casablancas, the trophy wife of real estate tycoon Richard Casablancas. Over the next few years, Carpenter kept busy in made for TV and direct to video films, as well as guest starring on shows like CSI.
Her next major role came as Lacy, wife of Jason Statham’s mercenary Lee Christmas, in The Expendables. She’d reprise the Lacy role in both Expendables sequels as well. Around this same time, Carpenter recurred as Tegan Walker on the college comedy series Greek, and also guest starred on Burn Notice. A fun treat saw her guest star alongside Buffy colleague James Marsters as a bickering pair of married witches on a 2011 episode of Supernatural. Carpenter’s most recent role as a TV series regular came in 2012 and 2013 on ABC Family’s The Lying Game, playing Rebecca Sewell Rybak . Since then, she’s made guest appearances on Sons of Anarchy, Scream Queens, and Lucifer, and also raised eyebrows by going fully nude as of the female lead of 2015’s sexually charged thriller Bound, which was kind of a mockbuster of the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise.
