Birth Name:
Charisma Lee Carpenter
Birth Place:
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Date of Birth:
July 23, 1970
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Cherokee, Spanish, Scottish, French, German and Irish
Carpenter is famous for her role on the show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Several sites state that she is Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, and Spanish on her mother’s side and French and German on her father’s side. She lived in Mexico in her youth but doesn’t speak Spanish fluently.
- http://www.celebritywonder.com/html/charismacarpenter.html
- http://www.sidereel.com/Charisma_Carpenter
- http://www.buddytv.com/charisma-carpenter.aspx
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She also was on a few Charmed episodes.
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Carpenter yet again English but classed as something else
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Dave, a lot of people in America have an English surname but are not English. For example, Janice Dickinson’s father, Ray Dickinson, emigrated from Belarus. However, his family changed their last name to Dickinson to avoid discrimination. Her mother, Jenie Pietrzykoski, was a immigrant from Poland and eventually changed her name as well. The same can be said for Natalie Wood, who was originally Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, and Tony Curtis, who was originally Bernard Schwartz.
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Great looking actress. Though my enjoyment of her (on Buffy) was somewhat dampened by my desire for her to move out of the way so I could get a better view of Willow. (Willow…)
When she went to Angel it was much better. No conflict (til Fred anyway. Fred…) That and they wrote her character as less shallow. Eventually.
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Wikipedia’s source is not very reliable either. A majority of sites on the web say that she is Cherokee, Spanish, Scottish, French, German and Irish.
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You can’t really trust/rely on IMDB.com because anyone can edit it. Same as wikipedia, but wikipedia has sources. She really is Irish, Cherokee, and Spanish. references at Wikipedia.org
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You definitely, should not trust this site!
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