List of Charmed characters
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Charmed is an American television series that was originally broadcast by The WB for eight seasons from October 7, 1998, until May 21, 2006. The series narrative follows a trio of sisters, known as the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, who use their combined Power of Three to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern-day San Francisco. The main characters of the first three seasons were Prue (Shannen Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano). After Doherty departed from the series in 2001, resulting in her character's death, she was replaced by Rose McGowan as the long-lost younger half-sister Paige Matthews from the fourth season onwards. The following list only contains characters that appeared in five or more episodes.
Main
- Legend
- = Main cast (credited)
- = Recurring cast (2+)
- = Guest cast (1)
Actor | Character | Seasons | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
Shannen Doherty | Prue Halliwell | Main | Stand-in | ||||||
Holly Marie Combs | Piper Halliwell | Main | |||||||
Alyssa Milano | Phoebe Halliwell | Main | |||||||
Rose McGowan | Paige Matthews | Main | |||||||
T.W. King | Andy Trudeau | Main | |||||||
Dorian Gregory | Darryl Morris | Main | |||||||
Brian Krause | Leo Wyatt | Recurring | Main[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||
Greg Vaughan | Dan Gordon | Main | |||||||
Karis Paige Bryant | Jenny Gordon | Main | |||||||
Julian McMahon[lower-alpha 2] | Cole Turner | Main | Guest | ||||||
Drew Fuller | Chris Halliwell | Guest | Main | Guest | |||||
Kaley Cuoco | Billie Jenkins | Main | |||||||
- In seasons three and four, Cole's demonic form, Belthazar, is portrayed by Michael Bailey Smith.
Recurring
- In season one, Victor Bennett was portrayed by Anthony Denison
- In season three, The Source was portrayed by Michael Bailey Smith
- In season four, The Source was portrayed by Bennet Guillory
- In seasons six to eight, the adult version of Wyatt is portrayed by Wes Ramsey
Prue Halliwell
Prudence "Prue" Halliwell (played by Shannen Doherty) is the eldest sister who initially receives the power to move objects with her mind by channeling telekinesis through her eyes.[1] As the series progresses, Prue channels her telekinetic powers through her hands, and also gains the power of astral projection, which allows her to materialize her astral form outside of her body.[2][3] Prue also develops martial arts skills and becomes an effective hand-to-hand fighter. She sacrificed a majority of her childhood to help raise her two younger sisters Piper and Phoebe, after the death of their mother and the abandonment of their father.[1] Prue's sense of responsibility occasionally leads to clashes with the more free-spirited Phoebe, however, the two grow closer as the series progresses.[1] During her three seasons on Charmed, Prue is regarded as the strongest and most powerful witch of the Halliwell sisters, as she usually takes charge of situations that involve demons and warlocks.[4] In the season three finale, Prue is killed by Shax, a powerful demonic assassin sent by The Source of All Evil (Michael Bailey Smith).[5]
Piper Halliwell
Piper Halliwell (played by Holly Marie Combs) is the second eldest sister who initially receives the power of molecular immobilization, which allows her to "freeze" her surrounding environment.[1] As the series progresses, she also gains the power of molecular combustion, which enables her to combust any object she wishes; this power quickly becomes useful to easily vanquish lower level demons.[6] Piper starts off as the middle sister, but later becomes the eldest after Prue dies.[7] Piper is initially shy and submissive, but gradually develops a much more assertive personality, especially after Prue's death.[1][7] One of the reoccurring struggles for Piper is her attempt to maintain a normal life despite her destiny of defeating the forces of evil. In season three, she marries their whitelighter Leo and as the series progresses, they have three children; Wyatt (born in season five), Chris (born in season six) and Melinda Halliwell.[8][9][10]
Phoebe Halliwell
Phoebe Halliwell (played by Alyssa Milano) is the third sister who initially receives the power of premonition, which enables her to see into the past or the future.[1] To make up for initially receiving a passive power, Phoebe develops martial arts skills to better assist her sisters when fighting evil.[11] As the series progresses, she also gains the active powers of levitation and empathy and her premonitions become more powerful, enabling her to communicate with people in the future and share with other people.[12][13] Phoebe starts out as the youngest and most rebellious of the sisters. Because of her free-spirited nature, she often comes into major conflicts with Prue but the two eventually mend their relationship.[1] She later becomes the middle sister after Prue dies and the series introduces their younger half-sister Paige.[7] One of the recurring struggles for Phoebe is her attempt to find a career and true love.[14] In the final season she falls in love and marries Coop, a cupid that was initially sent to her to find love.
Paige Matthews
Paige Matthews (played by Rose McGowan) is the youngest half-sister who initially receives the power to move objects with her mind by orbing ("teleporting") them from one location to another through a vocal command.[15] Paige is ambitious, outspoken, and stands firmly in what she believes in. She is the secret love child of the Halliwell sisters' mother and her whitelighter, making Paige both a witch and whitelighter.[7] Paige was given up at birth and raised by her adoptive parents. She was unaware of her magical history until Prue's funeral at the beginning of season four, in which she goes on to help reconstitute The Charmed Ones by taking Prue's place in the Power of Three.[7] Her main power is telekinetic orbing: a combination of the prophesied telekinetic power as a Charmed sister and her own whitelighter DNA. As the series progresses, Paige also inherits a variety of whitelighter powers such as orbing herself and others, sensing, glamouring and healing.[15] One of the recurring struggles for Paige is finding an identity for herself outside of her role as a Charmed One. In the final season, she marries parole officer, Henry.
Andy Trudeau
Andrew "Andy" Trudeau (played by Ted King) is a detective for the San Francisco Police Department. He was introduced in season one as the Halliwell sisters' childhood friend, and Prue's high school sweetheart and first love.[1] Andy is coincidentally assigned to almost every police case that involve the sisters.[16] He eventually discovers that they are witches and serves as the sisters' initial connection to the police force.[2] He works with Darryl as his partner, although he causes quite a bit of grief to Darryl by always being seemingly ahead of his partner.[14] In the season one finale, Andy is killed by the demon Rodriguez (Carlos Gomez), who also happens to be one of the Internal Affairs officers that was investigating Andy's unsolved cases.[17]
Darryl Morris
Darryl Morris (played by Dorian Gregory) is a lieutenant in the San Francisco Police Department. Darryl is introduced as the partner of Andy.[1] At first, Darryl is suspicious of the sisters' recurring connection to mysterious murders and crimes.[18] However, a few months after Andy's death, the sisters reveal to him that they are good witches trying to bring justice and protection to the world.[3] Throughout the series, Darryl helps the sisters cover up unsolved cases related to demonic activity, grants them favors, and gives them general support. After season seven, Darryl and his family move to the East Coast.[19]
Leo Wyatt
Leo Wyatt (played by Brian Krause) is the Halliwell sisters' whitelighter a guardian angel for good witches—who has the powers to orb, heal, sense, glamour and hover. Leo is introduced into season one as the sisters' handyman who is hired to fix up their house,[20] but they later discover that he is actually their whitelighter.[21] Leo's whitelighter duties often causes problems for his marriage to Piper and their family.[22] Their relationship is the first of many conflicts between the Halliwells and The Elders.[23]
Dan Gordon
Dan Gordon (played by Greg Vaughan) is a neighbor of the Halliwell sisters in the second season. In the first episode of the season, Dan moves into the house next-door to the sisters' with his niece Jenny.[24] He was a baseball player who played second base for the Seattle Mariners until he blew out his knee sliding home, and he later became a construction worker. Dan and Piper start dating after Piper and Leo split up due to the strenuous nature his whitelighter duties place on their relationship.[25] Dan doesn't know the sisters are witches and while dating Piper, he notices the oddity of the sisters' lives and often suspects that they are hiding something.[26] Piper's sudden unexplained disappearances due to her duties as a good witch and her avoidance of his questions begins to frustrate Dan and make him feel uncomfortable in their relationship.[26]
Piper later breaks up with Dan and reconciles with Leo.[27] However, Dan becomes suspicious of Leo and asks his brother-in-law who works for the State Department to check out Leo's army records. When his brother-in-law discovers that the young looking Leo was a soldier many decades ago in World War II, and died, Dan shares this information with Piper and is shocked to find out that she already knew.[28] In the second season finale, Dan learns the truth about Piper and her sisters, after a wish granted by a genie (French Stewart) from Piper that Dan could "move on" with his life, turns him into an old man. Piper is heartbroken when Dan tells her that he wished he never found out because it freaks him out. To help ease Dan's mind, Piper wishes for the genie to make him forget about learning the truth and for him to truly move on with his life, which leads to Dan moving to Portland, Oregon after accepting a job offer there.[29]
Jenny Gordon
Jenny Gordon (played by Karis Paige Bryant) is Dan's niece who temporarily moves in with him for school because her parents are in Saudi Arabia on business.[24] While living with her uncle, Jenny forms a bond with the sisters and often turns to them for advice on female issues that she is not comfortable talking to her uncle about.[30] Midway through season two, Jenny moves back in with her parents after they return to the United States.
Cole Turner
Cole Turner (played by Julian McMahon), also known as the demonic assassin Belthazor, is a half-human and half-demon.[23] Cole has the powers to teleport and throw projective energy balls which could stun or kill.[31] He is introduced into season three as an Assistant District Attorney sent by The Triad to kill the Charmed Ones,[32] but instead falls in love with Phoebe.[33] Though Cole eventually rids himself of his demonic nature and marries Phoebe in season four, he later returns to evil after he unwillingly becomes the new Source of All Evil.[34] This causes the sisters to kill him towards the end of season four.[35] However, in season five Cole escapes The Wasteland, due to him stealing vast amounts of powers off other dead demons, and forces himself into the sisters' lives again. Cole never regains their trust and although he attempts to dedicate his new life to being good,[36] his bewildering love for Phoebe and her rejection of his love, drives him to the point of insanity, which again results in his demise.[37]
Chris Halliwell
Christopher Perry "Chris" Halliwell (played by Drew Fuller) is the second son of Leo and Piper, making him a half-witch and half whitelighter. Chris is introduced into the season five finale as a whitelighter from the future who helps assist the sisters against magical beings known as The Titans. While he successfully gains the Charmed Ones' trust, Leo remains initially suspicious. In season six, Chris reveals that he is actually Leo and Piper's son and that he traveled back in time to prevent his older brother Wyatt from growing up to be the evil dictator he becomes in the future. For this to happen, Chris set up a scheme where most of The Elders would die so that Leo could become an Elder and he could become the Charmed Ones' new whitelighter, allowing him to get close enough to Wyatt to protect him. In the season six finale, adult Chris is killed by an Elder named Gideon (Gildart Jackson) and baby Chris is born. His powers are telekinesis and orbing.
Billie Jenkins
Billie Jenkins (played by Kaley Cuoco) is a young witch who has the power of projection and to move objects with her mind using telekinesis. Billie is introduced into season eight as a college student and a new charge for Paige. While the sisters assume new identities during the first few episodes of the season, she keeps their secret and does some of their magical legwork for them. Billie becomes obsessed with finding her long-lost older sister Christy, who was kidnapped 15 years earlier by The Triad. Billie is eventually reunited with her sister, but does not know that she has been turned evil under the influence of demons. After Christy briefly sways her to betray the Charmed Ones, Billie eventually sides with the sisters in the series finale and is forced to kill Christy in self-defense.