Charisma Carpenter’s Death Scene In Angel Helped Land Her First Major Movie Role

Charisma Carpenter‘s Cordelia Chase started as a queen bee figure on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” but eventually, her role as a “Mean Girls“-esque clique leader diminished and she started spending more time with the Scooby Gang than the Cordettes. Then her character moved to Los Angeles and joined “Angel” one of TV’s best spin-offs ever. There, Cordelia got a bona fide heroic arc … and, ultimately, an emotional death scene. As it happens, said scene came in handy when Carpenter was looking to move to the next stage of her career.

In 2010, Carpenter starred in her first major movie,…