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== Characters ==
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[[File:Angel cast (Angel casefiles).jpg|thumb|250px|The principal ''Angel'' actors portraying their characters (Season 3), from left to right: [[Charles Gunn (Angel)|Gunn]], [[Cordelia Chase|Cordelia]], [[Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Angel]], [[Wesley Wyndam-Pryce|Wesley]] and [[Winifred Burkle|Fred]]]]
The series focuses on [[Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Angel]] ([[David Boreanaz]]), an Irish vampire who is over 240 years old. Angel was known as Angelus during his rampages across Europe, but was cursed with a soul, which gave him a conscience and guilt for centuries of murder and torture. He left ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' at the end of season 3 to move to Los Angeles in search of redemption.

He soon finds himself assisted by [[Allen Francis Doyle]] ([[Glenn Quinn]]), another Irish character who is a half-human, half-demon who, although he comes across as a ne'er-do-well hustler, has a heroic side. Doyle serves to pass along cryptic visions from The Powers That Be to Angel. They're soon joined by [[Cordelia Chase]] ([[Charisma Carpenter]]), also a previous cast member of ''Buffy.'' Formerly a popular high school cheerleader of Sunnydale High, Cordelia starts her tenure on the show as a more vain and self-centered personality, but grows over the course of the series into a hero. Cordelia acquires Doyle's visions via a shared kiss prior to Doyle's death. With the death of Doyle in the ninth episode of the show's first season, another character from the ''Buffy'' series makes the jump to its spinoff: [[Wesley Wyndam-Pryce]] ([[Alexis Denisof]]) joins the team under the brave guise of "rogue demon hunter," acting as comic relief and initially not well accepted. Over time, Wesley shows bravery and strength as well as some cold-blooded killing ability, like his colleague [[Rupert Giles]], and grows into a leader.

In season 2 of the show, Angel, Cordelia and Wesley are joined by [[Charles Gunn (Angel)|Charles Gunn]] ([[J. August Richards]]), a young demon hunter who must initially adjust to working with and for a vampire. At the end of season 2, they travel to the demon world Pylea, where they save [[Winifred Burkle|Winifred "Fred" Burkle]] ([[Amy Acker]]), a young Texan physicist whose social skills have become stunted after five years' captivity; she later grows to become more outspoken. Season 3 saw the introduction of [[Connor (Angel)|Connor]] ([[Vincent Kartheiser]]), the "miracle" human-like child of two vampires, Angel and [[Darla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Darla]]. Abducted into a Hell dimension as a baby, he is raised by Angel's enemy [[Daniel Holtz]], and only a few weeks after he left comes back as a teenager and reluctantly comes to accept his lineage. Although introduced during season 2, [[Lorne (Angel)|Lorne]] ([[Andy Hallett]]) joins the team during season 3. An outgoing, pacifist demon with prophetic and empathic abilities, Lorne's role is predominantly to support the team.

Season 5, the show's final season, introduces several new cast members, chief amongst them [[Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Spike]] ([[James Marsters]]), an old vampire ally/foe of Angel's who also starred in ''Buffy.'' In this series, Spike reluctantly fights beside Angel as their rivalry continues—now tinged with Spike existing as another vampire with a soul, and by the romantic feelings that both of them have for Buffy Summers. One of the legendary [[Old Ones (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Old Ones]], [[Illyria (Angel)|Illyria]] (Amy Acker) starts off as an adversary of the team after taking over Fred's body, but comes to join the team as she must learn to cope with the changed world and the new emotions she feels as a result of taking over a human. Finally, there's [[Harmony Kendall]] ([[Mercedes McNab]]), another ''Buffy'' alumna and former friend of Cordelia who was turned into a vampire. Resembling the old personality of Cordelia, Harmony is grudgingly accepted by Angel as his secretary when he takes over the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart.

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. Angel's sire [[Darla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Darla]] ([[Julie Benz]]), first seen in ''Buffy'', plays an expanded role on ''Angel'' and appears in 20 episodes over the course of the series. [[Elisabeth Röhm]] appears in 15 episodes (Seasons 1–2) as LAPD Detective [[Kate Lockley]], a woman with an often-strained relationship with Angel.

Throughout the series, there were also guest appearances from [[List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters|''Buffy'' characters]], including main cast members [[Buffy Summers]], [[Willow Rosenberg]] and [[Oz (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Daniel "Oz" Osbourne]]. The rogue slayer [[Faith (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Faith]] ([[Eliza Dushku]]) played an important part in episodes of Seasons 1, 2, and 4; [[Anne Steele (Buffyverse)|Anne Steele]] and [[Andrew Wells]] also originated on ''Buffy'' and appeared in two or more ''Angel'' episodes. Whedon also used two actors from his cancelled television series ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'', [[Gina Torres]] and [[Adam Baldwin]], to play [[Jasmine (Angel)|Jasmine]] and [[Marcus Hamilton (Angel)|Marcus Hamilton]], respectively.