Name: Charisma Carpenter
Birth Name: Charisma Lee Carpenter
Height: 5' 7½''
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: July 23, 1970
Birth Place: Las Vegas, Nevada
Profession: Actress
Education: Gorman High School in Las Vegas
Bonita High School in San Diego
Chula Vista School of the Creative and Performing Arts (graduated in 1989)
Playhouse West
Junior college in San Diego
Husband/Wife: Damian Hardy (actor; married on October 5, 2002; separated as of November 2007)
Father: Don Carpenter (salesman; orn 1943; divorced from Carpenter's mother in 1983, reconciled and remarried, divorced a second time in 1996)
Mother: Chris Carpenter (works in a bird sanctuary; born 1939)
Son: Donovan Charles Hardy (born March 24, 2003; father, Damien Hardy)
Claim to fame: As Cordelia Chase in Buffy The Vampire Slayer