Angel. The vampire with a soul, cursed by gypsies to walk the earth in eternal sadness. If he experiences one moment of pure happiness, he reverts to his original evil form, Angelus, the vampire who desecrated the earth for hundreds of years. Quite the background for a vampire who fell in love with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Because of that love and the dangerous happiness it promised, he had to move away from Sunnydale to Los Angeles. There he opens Angel Investigations, a private detective agency with a flair for the dramatic and a nose for the supernatural. Los Angeles full of soulless monsters? Hard to believe, but true. Angel's battles with hell-sent nasties culminates in an ongoing struggle with the minions of Wolfram & Hart, lawyers to the dark side. Join his crew for scares, thrills and demon-slaying action.
Andy Whitfield, the Welsh-born Aussie star of the supernatural thriller 'Gabriel' and the TV series, 'Spartacus: Blood and Sand', has died at the age of 39. Aussie audiences may know him from 'All Saints' and 'Packed to the Rafters', but for a legion of loyal fans (especially in the US) he'll always be remembered as the fallen Angel, Gabriel, no matter how popular he became as Spartacus. He...
Andy Hallett, the singer who gained fame as the green-skinned demon Lorne on Angel, has died of congestive heart disease aged 33. Hallett was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after having problems breathing and died there on Sunday. It follows a five-year battle with the heart condition. Hallett appeared on more than 70 episodes of Angel between 2000 and 2004. Born and...
The classic ‘crossover’ is that of the genre actor to ‘mainstream’ entertainment. Think Harrison Ford, from Star Wars to superstardom, or on a slightly obscure note, think of actor Paul McCrane, who starred as the memorable tumour-eating ambulance driver Leonard Morris Betts in The X-Files (and came to a rather sticky end in Robocop)and went on to become curmudgeonly chief surgeon Dr Robert Romano...