Charisma Carpenter

Charisma Carpenter, born on July 23rd, 1970 She is an American actor. Cordelia Chase played the character as Cordelia in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's supernatural thriller (1997-1999) as well as the spin-off show Angel (1999-04). She also starred as Kyra in Charmed (2004) and as Kendall Casablanca's character on 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,[disputed - discuss] the daughter of Christine, a bird sanctuary worker and Don Carpenter, a salesman. She is of Spanish (from her maternal grandfather), French, and German descent. Carpenter attended Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas; she was also member of a song and dance group which was a part of the Las Vegas Valley when she was 9 years old. old.When Carpenter was 15, her family moved to Rosario Beach, Baja California, Mexico and then to San Diego, California. She went to Bonita Vista High School and Chula Vista School of the Creative and Performing Arts. Carpenter was on a tour to Europe following her graduation. Carpenter returned to San Diego in 1991 and was employed as an aerobics instructor, a 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 acquaintances at the time that Henry Hubbard Jr., an ex-police officer from San Diego and serial rapist was threatening the group. The two of them, Henry Hubbard Jr. and her friends were killed in the fight. Both were able to escape. Hubbard was found guilty and sentenced to 56 years in prison for a series of rapes, burglaries. Carpenter brought Hubbard his flashlight from the police station on the beach. Hubbard had left it at the scene. The flashlight was an important piece of evidence against Hubbard.