Facts about Nicholas Brendon [Xander]:
-His real last name is Shultz; he and his twin brother, Kelly Donovan, use their middle name as their last name.
-He’s younger than his twin brother by three minutes.
-He was on his way to being a baseball star when he injured his shoulder and was forced to pursue other options.
-He used to stutter, and entered acting as a way to overcome it.
-In the episode The Replacement [episode 3, season 5], Xander gets split in two. Nick did both parts, unless both Xanders needed to be in the same frame. His twin brother Kelly doubled for him. Though they really do look startlingly similar, Nick Brendon plays the twitchy Xander and Kelly Donovan plays the cool Xander. Kelly Donovan does a bit of work on the show later in the season too, in the episode Intervention. Nick got sick, so Kelly was called up to play the scene.
-He has two tattoos; a cross with a jewel in the centre on his right arm, and a Latin symbol on the bicep of his left arm.
-He used to have his belly button pierced.
Facts about Sarah Michelle Gellar [Buffy]:
-She originally auditioned for the part of Cordelia; Charisma Carpenter originally auditioned for the part of Buffy.
-She has three tattoos; one in her lower back, the Chinese symbol for Integrity; a Celtic symbol on her left hip; a heart with a dagger hanging over it on the inside of her right ankle.
-She can juggle.
-She was sued at the age of four by McDonalds because of an advertisement she did for Burger King wherein she stated that McDonalds burgers were 20% smaller than those at Burger King. This was the first time any corporation used a competitor’s name in a commercial.
-Her favourite episodes of Buffy were The Prom, The Body, Who Are You? and Becoming, Part 2.
Facts about Alyson Hannigan [Willow]:
-She was not the original Willow; in the unaired pilot of the show, Riff Regan plays the character. Joss Whedon felt that the part of Willow was not being portrayed as well as it perhaps could be, so Alyson was called in. She did well and she got the part.
-She started off her career at four when she debuted in a number of commercials for Oreo Cookies and McDonalds.
-Alyson Hannigan was the one who told Joss Whedon about Nerf Herder, the band that did the Buffy theme song.
-In the episode The Body in the fifth season where Joyce Summers dies, Xander punches a hole through a wall. Alyson had a terrible allergic reaction to the plaster and her face swelled up to the point where she needed to be taken to hospital. However, she had to finish filming first; if you’ll notice, only one side of Alyson’s face is filmed in that scene.
-She has a tattoo of tribal dolphins on her lower back.
Facts about Anthony Stewart Head [Giles]:
-The set in the beginning episodes of the seventh season between Willow and Giles in England is actually filmed on Tony’s property in England.
-For the season finale of the second season, Angel was torturing Giles; Tony Head put chili peppers in his mouth to make his speech sound more pained. However, it didn’t occur to him until later that he had to kiss both Juliet Landau and Robia LaMorte in the scene.
-British Prime Minister Tony Blair once said that Tony Head would be Blair’s first choice to play him on a television series or something of the sort.
-He was the one who recommended Alexis Denisof for the part of Wesley on Buffy. By default, he is therefore also responsible for introducing Alexis to Alyson Hannigan; they later wed.
Facts about James Marsters [Spike]:
-His favourite episode on Buffy was Once More, With Feeling.
-He went to the Juilliard School of Performing Arts.
-He is left-handed.
-For part of James’ career on the show, he had a house on the beach. However, he couldn’t go out on the beach terribly often because then he’d catch a tan, which, as we all know, vampires can’t have.
-His middle name is Wesley.
-He once said that Tony Head’s accent on the show is as fake as his; Tony’s accent is much more gritty, and after a while, James started molding his accent around Tony’s real accent.
-He was named #1 as the “Top Ten Sexiest Men on Buffy/Angel”.
Facts about David Boreanaz [Angel]:
-He was walking his dog one night when an agent noticed his dark, brooding looks and signed him as a client. He was cast as Angel the next day.
-He is the first person to do a scene completely nude on Buffy; this occurred at the very end of the third episode of the third season called Faith, Hope and Trick.
Facts about Amber Benson [Tara]:
-One of her favourite authors is Christopher Golden, who is interestingly one of the official published authors of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfiction; he has written or co-written 15 books to date on Buffy the Vampire Slayer material, including a recounting of Oz’s trek when he left the show and where he went to get his werewolfness under control.
-She is a vegetarian.
-Her character was one of only two main characters who never returned to the show after they died or left.
Facts about Charisma Carpenter [Cordelia]:
-Her mother named her after a brand of perfume.
-She was a cheerleader for the San Diego Chargers’ football team.
-She made her acting debut on an episode of Baywatch, and then moved on to Malibu Shores before getting the part of Cordelia on Buffy.
-She was hesitant about taking the role of Cordelia on BTVS because she didn’t want to play a bitchy character again as she was on Malibu Shores.
-On her 26th birthday, she went skydiving. When the WB heard about this, they made her sign a clause that stated that she would refrain from doing that for the duration of her contract with them.
-Her favourite colour is yellow.
-She was one of only two main characters who never returned to Buffy after they left/died.
Facts about Michelle Trachtenberg [Dawn]:
-She speaks Russian.
-She loves gardening.
-Michelle first visited the Buffy set while the episode Primeval, episode 21 of season four, was being shot; she was disappointed because the whole season was ruined now that she knew the ending.
-Michelle and Sarah worked together for a long time on the series All My Children; they became good friends. Sarah was the one to recommend Michelle for the part of Dawn.
-She plays tennis.
Facts about Kristine Sutherland [Joyce]:
-After the third season of Buffy, Kristine moved to France/Italy. This may be the contributing factor to her death on the series in the fifth season.
-Her original name was Kristine Young, but there was another actress with that name who, she claims, was not the nicest person in the world. She changed her name to avoid being mistaken with this actress; the name Sutherland came from her cat, whom she named Donald after Donald Sutherland.
-Her favourite episodes of Buffy were Ted, Band Candy and When She Was Bad.
Facts about Emma Caulfield [Anya]:
-She studied psychology in college.
-She played quite an important role on General Hospital and Beverly Hills, 90210, on which she appeared in thirty episodes.
-She is a diehard science-fiction fan.
Facts about miscellaneous others:
-Eliza Dushku's [Faith] favourite colour is black.
-Harry Groener [Mayor Richard Wilkins III] was born in Germany. He was also Joss Whedon’s favourite main villain.
-The character of Robia LaMorte [Jenny Calendar] on the show was originally supposed to be named Nicki Calendar, but since most of the cast and crew called Nicholas Brendan Nicky, they decided that the names were too similar and would cause confusion. The character was called Jenny instead.
-Alexis Denisof [Wesley] was born in America; however, he did spend about 20 years in England. His accent is fake, but you can hear a hint of one in interviews and such.
Just a generally miscellaneous fact:
Five actors have appeared in all three of Joss Whedon’s TV series. They are:
-ANDY UMBERGER: He played D’Hoffryn in several episodes of Buffy; he played Dr. Ronald Meltzer in the episode I Fall to Pieces in the first season of Angel; he played the captain of the Alliance ship in the episode Serenity of Firefly.
-CARLOS JACOTT: He played Ken in the first episode of season three Anne of Buffy; he played Richard in the first season Angel episode The Bachelor Party; he played the Alliance passenger, Lawrence Dobson in the episode Serenity of Firefly.
-BOB FIMAINI: He played the head of the Initiative, Mr. Ward, in several episodes of season four of Buffy; Elder Gamman in the Firefly episode Our Mrs. Reynolds; a Codger Demon in the Angel episode Heartthrob in season three.
-JOHNATHAN WOODWARD: He played Holden Webster in the Buffy episode Conversations with Dead People; Knox in several episodes of Angel’s season five; Tracey in the Firefly episode The Message.
-JEFF RICKETTS: played Watcher’s Council member Weatherby in Buffy and Angel; a creepy ‘Hands of Blue’ guy in Firefly.
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