Regular cast David Boreanaz as Angel (Seasons 1-5) 110 episodes. Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase (Seasons 1-4. Special guest star 5.12) 86 episodes. Glenn Quinn as Allen Francis Doyle (Season 1.01-1.10) 9 episodes. J. August Richards as Charles Gunn (Seasons 2-5. Guest star 1.20-1.22) 91 episodes.
Many characters on Angel made recurring appearances. The two longest-running recurring characters are Lilah Morgan (Seasons 1–4) and Lindsey McDonald (Seasons 1, 2, and 5), appearing in 36 and 21 episodes, respectively; Lindsey is the only character besides Angel to appear in both the first and last episode of the series.
Season One Main Characters: 1 Angel (David Boreanaz). 2 Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter). 3 Allen Francis Doyle (Glenn Quinn). 4 Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Alexis Denisof).
For the first three seasons, David Greenwalt, who co-created the series with Whedon, was also credited as executive producer; during this time, he also took on the role of show runner. He left to oversee Miracles, but continued to work on Angel as a consulting producer for the final two seasons.
Kane guest starred as the Wolfram & Hart lawyer Lindsey McDonald in 21 episodes of Angel: "City Of"
Wolfram & Hart, and its many incarnations in other dimensions, was a front organization for the Wolf, Ram and Hart, an ancient cabal of demons known as the Senior Partners,[citation needed] who worked through their powerful principal agents in the Circle of the Black Thorn.
Boone. Boone is a humanoid demon of an unknown species and an old rival of Angel. He was played by Mark Rolston in the episode "Blood Money". Boone met Angel in Juarez, in the 1920s, and fought over a woman while Boone was hung over.
Lindsey legally represented many a vampire and demon, as well as evil humans. He meets Angel in the first episode in the series, when Angel kills Russell Winters, one of his vampire clients, by hurling him out the window of a tall building just after Lindsey had claimed that Angel couldn't touch the client in question.
Knox was a recurring evil genius and follower of Illyria who played an instrumental role in the seeming death of Fred in order to resurrect his "goddess" - this made him a natural enemy of Angel and his team.
Feeling useless and undervalued by his friends, Gunn submitted to a procedure at the hands of Wolfram & Hart's Medical Department that enhanced his mind with a comprehensive understanding of the law (and Gilbert & Sullivan, to help improve his voice and diction), making him the only member of Angel's team able to work ...
Supernatural creator Eric Kripke has professed his love for the series, even saying that he owes Buffy creator Joss Whedon a beer. Early on in Supernatural's run, many fans held out hope for some kind of crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Mercedes McNab played the annoying Sunnydale high schooler turned vampire Harmony Kendall on Buffy. In Supernatural, she played Lucy, a party gal unknowingly turned into a vampire on episode 7 of season 3 “Fresh Blood”.
Matthew JamesMatthew James (born 1973) is an American TV and film actor. He appeared in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and also portrayed Merl in the TV show Angel. He played a minor, character role in the 5th episode of television show The Good Guys entitled "$3.52".
Lindsey and Angel allied once more in an effort to stop the Circle. The two agreed to fight the upcoming battle together and, at the end, resolve their differences, maybe even allowing Lindsey to take a powerful position at Wolfram & Hart as "the devil [they knew]." Lorne shoots Lindsey.
Later, in Angel's perfect-day dream sequence, Angel and Cordelia consummated their relationship, but Angel called out "Buffy!" as he lost his soul, just as he did in Sunnydale years earlier.
To Connor's dismay, Cordelia could not let anything happen until she knew who she really was. Cordelia possessed by Jasmine. After a spell gone awry caused her to revert to her teenage self, Cordelia's memories were finally restored through a spell by Lorne, but the spell awoke the fallen power too.
The timeline below shows where the character Roy Cohn appears in Angels in America. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Millennium Approaches: Act 1, Scene 2. A lawyer named Roy Cohn sits in his legal office with a young aspiring lawyer named Joe Pitt.
Roy Cohn Quotes in Angels in America. The Angels in America quotes below are all either spoken by Roy Cohn or refer to Roy Cohn. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ).
Cohn dares Henry to suggest that he’s homosexual, threatening... (full context) Cohn dismisses Henry’s focus on “labels.”. Labels, Cohn explains, are only a way of fitting humans... (full context) Millennium Approaches: Act 2, Scene 4. Joe Pitt and Roy Cohn sit in a bar.
(full context) Back in the hospital, Cohn asks Belize for his real name. Belize explains that his real name is Norman Ariago.... (full context) As Cohn speaks, Ethel Rosenberg materializes in the hospital room, smiling faintly.
Joe, totally sober, explains that Harper, his wife, is mentally disturbed,... (full context) Abruptly, Joe apologizes to Cohn for opening up about his personal life. Cohn puts his hand on Joe’s back and... (full context) In the bar, Cohn tells Joe about his long career as a lawyer, working for Joseph McCarthy.
Roy Cohn, both a character in the play and a real-life attorney and political figure, is an elderly lawyer and a mentor to Joe Pitt. Cohn has made his career on smearing his political opponents, as as a friend to Joseph McCarthy, he ruined many prominent Americans’ reputations by accusing them of being Communists or homosexuals.
Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry, who fucks around with guys. Millennium Approaches: Act 3, Scene 5 Quotes. Yes. Yes. You have heard of Ethel Rosenberg. Yes. Maybe you even read about her in the history books.
Lindsey responded by changing into his casual clothes, getting into his truck and by brutally beating Angel with it and a sledgehammer, demanding to know what happened with Darla. Leaving Angel briefly to get his stake, Angel in that time recovered and turned the tables on Lindsey.
When she seemingly killed a security guard which put her on the run, Lindsay tried to contact Angel but he was already there and hung Lindsey's neck by a string choking , wanting to know where she was but Lindsey explained that she would die if Angel didn't save her.
Lorne set him and Angel on the path that would end with the two working together to discover a Wolfram & Hart facility that specialized in unwilling transplant donors. Among them was the donor of Lindsey's hand, an old friend of his from his mailroom days.
Dressed in his casual attire, Lindsey left Los Angeles and went on a soul-searching trip, including, amongst other places, Nepal.
Lindsey legally represented many vampires and demons, as well as evil humans. In 1999, he worked with vampiric businessman Russell Winters, a client that because of Lindsey's and his firm's services, could feed on young women without alerting attention.
Lindsey and Eve. Together, Lindsey and Eve manipulate events so that Spike, not Angel, proves ( or at least appears to the Senior Partners) to be the ensouled vampire foretold in the Scrolls of Aberjian, the one who will have a crucial impact in the Apocalypse and fulfill the Shanshu Prophecy.
Lindsey quickly replaced his hand with a new prosthetic and continued with his life, requiring pre-made ties for work and unable to play his guitar. Consequently, his work at the firm suffered as he aired his hatred towards Angel against his colleagues while still in a race with Lilah for the promotion.
The Angel of America. An imposing, terrifying, divine presence who descends from Heaven to bestow prophecy on Prior. The Angel seeks a prophet to overturn the migratory impulse of human beings, believing that their constant motion and change have driven God to abandon creation.
Roy represents the opposite of community, the selfishness and loneliness all too endemic to American life. However, his malevolence goes beyond mere isolation to actual hatred and evil.
The Ethel of the play returns as a ghost to take satisfaction in the death of her persecutor, Roy. Ethel hates Roy with a "needlesharp" passion, yet on his deathbed she musters enough compassion to sing to him. Her recitation of the Kaddish with Louis indicates her forgiveness.
The boyfriend Louis abandons after Prior reveals that he has AIDS. Prior becomes a prophet when he is visited by an Angel of God, but he eventually rejects his prophecy and demands a blessing of additional life. The Angel is drawn to Prior because of his illness, which inscribes a kind of ending in his bloodstream, and because of his ancient Anglo-Saxon lineage, representing the notion of being rooted and stable. But he proves wiser than the Angels in rejecting their doctrine of stasis in favor of the painful necessity of movement and migration. Prior is as genuinely decent and moral as Louis is flawed. His AIDS infection renders him weak and victimized, but he manages to transcend that mere victimhood, surviving and becoming the center of a new, utopian community at the play's end.
Belize. A black ex-drag queen and registered nurse, Belize is Prior's best friend and—quite against Belize 's will—Roy's caretaker. He is the most ethical and reasonable character in the play, generously looking out for Prior, grappling with Roy and rebutting Louis's blindly self-centered politics.
Martin Heller. A Justice Department official and political ally of Roy's. Martin is fundamentally spineless, allowing Roy to manipulate him in order to impress Joe and then taking the abuse that Roy heaps on him along with a blackmail threat.
Rabbi Isador Chemelwitz. An elderly rabbi who delivers the eulogy at the funeral of Sarah Ironson, Rabbi Chemelwitz describes the conservative process by which Jewish immigrants resisted assimilation. Louis seeks spiritual guidance from him, and Prior later encounters him in Heaven on his way to confront the Angels.
After more than a century of murder and the torture of innocents, Angel's restored soul torments him with guilt and remorse.
During Season 1, Angel Investigations is based in Angel's apartment.
Co-producer Greenwalt points out, "There's no denying that Angel grew out of Buffy ." Several years before Angel debuted, Joss Whedon developed the concept behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer to invert the Hollywood formula of "the little blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror movie." The character Angel was first seen in the first episode and became a regular, appearing in the opening credits during seasons 2 and 3. According to the fictional universe first established by Buffy, the ' Buffyverse ', Angel was born in 18th-century Ireland; after being turned into a soulless, immortal vampire, he became legendary for his evil acts, until a band of wronged Gypsies punished him by restoring his soul, overwhelming him with guilt. Angel eventually set out on a path of redemption, hoping that he could make up for his past through good deeds. In Buffy 's Season Three finale, he leaves Sunnydale for L.A. to continue his atonement without Buffy. Whedon believed that "Angel was the one character who was bigger than life in the same way that Buffy was, a kind of superhero." Whedon has compared the series to its parent: "It's a little bit more straightforward action show and a little bit more of a guys' show."
Angel gathered a number of awards and nominations. It won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Television in 2001. It received many awards and nominations from the Saturn Awards which are presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films: it won Best Network TV Series in 2004 and David Boreanaz won Best TV Actor in 2000, 2003, and 2004. Specific episodes, " Waiting in the Wings ", " Smile Time ", and " Not Fade Away ", were nominated for Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2003 and 2005.
Much of Angel was shot on location in Los Angeles , where it is also set. "Los Angeles " are the first words spoken in the premiere episode, and the cityscape is the first image seen in the opening credits. Joss Whedon said, "It is set in Los Angeles because there are a lot of demons in L.A. and a wealth of stories to be told." Producer Marti Noxon has expanded on this explanation: "Los Angeles was the place that Joss Whedon picked for very specific reasons. There's a lot of preconceptions about what the place is, but there are a lot of truths. It's a pretty competitive, intense town, where a lot of lonely, isolated, and desperate people end up. It's a good place for monsters." Many episodes feature references to the city, and the opening episode of the second season features Lorne offering this observation of the city:
Spinning off from the Angel comics comes an entire series of Spike comics, using the Angel logo's typeface in its depiction of the name "Spike", among these are the comics Spike vs. Dracula, Spike: Asylum and Spike: Shadow Puppets.
Charles Gunn, who was introduced toward the end of season 1 in the episode "War Zone, " is a street-tough leader of a gang of vampire hunters. He is initially determined to kill Angel but slowly comes to accept him and join his cause throughout season 2.
He works as a private detective in a fictionalized version of Los Angeles, where he and a variety of associates work to "help the helpless" and to restore the faith and "save the souls" of those who had lost their way. Typically, this involved doing battle with evil demons or demonically-allied humans (primarily the evil law firm Wolfram & Hart ), as well as battling his own violent nature.
Early during the life of the series, some effort was made to slightly soften the original concept. For example, scenes were cut from the pilot episode, " City Of ," in which Angel tasted the blood of a murder victim; the episode that was originally written to be the second episode, " Corrupt ", was abandoned altogether.
It's set in Los Angeles because there are a lot of demons in L.A. and a wealth of stories to be told. We also wanted to take the show a little older and have the characters deal with demons in a much different way. Buffy is always the underdog trying to save the world, but Angel is looking for redemption.
Angel was a spin-off from the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffy' s creator Joss Whedon in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and it was first aired in October 1999 until its cancellation in 2004 .
David Boreanaz and James Marsters (Spike) are the only actors to appear in the final episodes of both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. David Boreanaz is the only actor to appear in the first and final episodes of both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
By the series end, James Marsters is the only actor to be in a scene with every single major character from both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Buffy, Xander, Willow, Cordelia, Angel, Giles, Oz, Anya, Dawn, Riley, and Tara on Buffy. And Angel, Cordelia, Doyle, Wesley, Gunn, Fred, Lorne, Connor, and Harmony on Angel.
The opening theme was composed by Holly Knight and Darling Violetta, an alternative rock group that performed two songs during the third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Holly Knight was the music producer of the track. The next year, Angel invited bands to submit demos for the theme music to the show. They asked bands to use "dark superhero ideas" and "cello-rock".
The Angel. The film The Angel, Netflix’s latest thriller about a real-life Egyptian man who spied for Israel in the 1970s, revisits a turbulent time in Middle Eastern history . In 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched an attack on Israel on the holy day of Yom Kippur, setting off what would turn into a weeks-long war.
In The Angel, Marwan befriends a woman named Diana, who assists him on a few of his missions for Israel. Later, as he’s being trailed by Egyptian officials who have become suspicious of him, Marwan pretends he is having an extramarital affair with Diana to throw them off.
In the film, Marwan sneaks off to a London telephone booth to call the Israeli embassy to offer himself up as a spy for Mossad. He gets the idea to do so after first failing to convince Nasser, who was still alive at the time, not to go to war with Israel.
In the film, Marwan sends his family off to Geneva to keep them safe before transporting weapons to the Palestinians. Prior to handing over the weapons, he removes a small piece from one missile that prevents it from firing.
The Angel posits that Marwan, who in real life died mysteriously, after falling off a London balcony in 2007, would do anything to secure peace; other accounts suggest the spy was a double agent who sought more power and money. Here’s what’s real — and what’s fictional or unclear — in the movie.
Fiction: Marwan and his wife, Mona Nasser, the daughter of President Nasser, eventually separated. Mona Nasser leaves Marwan toward the end of The Angel, having grown frustrated with his erratic behavior and believing that he is carrying on an affair.
That tip came from Ashraf Marwan, a well-connected Egyptian national: Marwan’ s father-in-law was Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Marwan went on to serve as an aide to President Anwar Sadat following Nasser’s death in 1970.
In 2019, she began starring in the BET+ comedy-drama series, Bigger. Angell was honored with receiving the Key to the City of Columbia, South Carolina; her hometown by the Mayor Steven Benjamin on February 5, 2019.
In 2010, Conwell was cast as attorney Leslie Michaelson in the CBS daytime soap opera, The Young and the Restless. Conwell first appeared in the role of Leslie Michaelson on December 2, 2010 on a recurring status.
Angell Conwell. Angell Conwell (born August 2, 1983) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Leslie Michaelson in the CBS daytime soap opera, The Young and the Restless and Lisa Stallworth in the Bounce TV sitcom Family Time.