| Name | Height | Eye color | Hair color and style | Distinguishing physical characteristics | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffy Anne Summers (It's not Elizabeth. Her school records list her full first name as Buffy.) | 5'2 inches (a few reports have her as low as 5'1, a few as much as 5'3, and remember that 3" heels do add height) | Green. There are some hazel specks, though. | SMG's natural color is brown, but Buffy, even as a child, has always been blonde. The first season was the darkest shade, while she remained a fairly constant golden-blonde throughout the series, with the exception of an ashy shade for a while in the last part of season six. Her hair was shortest during the middle of season 6 (chin-length bob) and longest during seasons 4, 5, and early 6 (roughly mid-back or slightly longer). | While Buffy does not have any tatoos, Sarah Michelle Gellar does. She has a heart balanced on a knife above her ankle. This has not been seen on camera. Buffy has three piercings in her right ear and two in her left. She has bite scars on her neck from the Master, Angel, and Dracula. | |
| Willow Rosenberg (No middle name given) | Approximately 5'6 | Dark green to hazel | Natural color is apparently a rusty brown, but Willow has always been portrayed as a redhead. Her color was darkest in seasons one and two and brightest in season 7 and as vampWillow. When she did dark magic, it turned jet black. During the series finale's axe spell, it temporarily turned pure white. | Very fair skinned. While Willow does not have any tatoos, Alyson Hannigan does. There is a rather abstract design of tribal dolphins on her ankle and a japanese kanji on her back. Neither has been seen on camera. | |
| Alexander Lavelle Harris; aka Xander | Approximately 5'11 | Brown | Very dark brown, straight, and usually floppy to some degree. Longest was in season 5 during the middle of the season, where his ears disappeared completely. | Became much more filled out over the course of the series. | |
| Angel (or Angelus, or Liam, no human middle or last name known) | Approximately 6'1 (that's right... he's SHORTER than Wes) | Brown | Very dark brown. Wore it mainly in a ponytail through 1900. When let out it was slightly below the shoulder. Hair has slight natural wave to it. After getting the soul in 1898, looked decidedly unkempt. By the 1920s, had short hair, looked quite good, all soul things considered. By the 1970s, it had grown out into a rather hideous-looking mullet. By the 1990s, his hair was short once again, but quite dirty. Upon his arrival at Sunnydale, his hair was the shortest we would see, and was gelled and straight. It grew out slightly by season two and remained pretty much the same over the course of both series. Occasionally, it had a tendency to go straight up. Oddly, during season 2 and 3 of Angel, occasionally sun-streaking was seen. | Has a tattoo of a griffin on the left side of his back near the shoulder. The letter A is intertwined through it. | |
| Rupert Giles (no middle name given) | 6'1 | Green with hazel flecks | Medium brown, showing some signs of gray in season 7. | Giles is left-handed and has a tattoo just above his inside left elbow that is the Mark of Eyghon. | |
| Spike (a.k.a. William the Bloody, no human last name known) | Most sources [including James Marsters] say 5'10, although numbers as high as 5'11 and as low as 5'8 have been reported. | Blue | Natural is medium to light brown and quite curly. Human William was seen twice, and his hair varied a lot. In Fool for Love, William is dark blond or light brown and has loose curls to his jaw. In Lies My Parents Told Me, his hair is almost auburn, less curly, and slightly shorter. Within months of his turning, his hair is straight. He remained dark blonde/light brown through at least 1900, at which point his hair was poker-straight and almost shoulder-length. By the 1970s, he has short, spiked, platinum blond hair. When he arrived in Sunnydale, his hair is the same only not as spiked. After his soul, his hair grew out significantly and had dark roots and curls for the first episode of season 7, but he returned to the short, platinum hair from the second episode on. | Has a scar in his left eyebrow gotten in 1900 that completely bisects the brow. Is left handed. | |
| Dawn Summers (no middle name known) | approximately 5'7 (MUCH taller than Buffy) by season 7. Do note that she grew since season 5. | Blue | Brown, long, usually very straight and highly shiny, though she had blondish streaks for a while at the beginning of season seven and her hair became somewhat shorter throughout the season. | Nothing unusual. | |
| Anya Christina Emanuella Jenkins (self-named; as a human, named Aud [predated period of last names] and as a demon, Anyanka) | 5'5 | Brown | The character is naturally a moderately dark brunette with curls from her human flashback. During the course of the show? Take your pick. Everything from platinum blonde to dark brown, every length from above the jaw to mid-back, every texture from poker straight to permed, often changing on a weekly basis with absolutely no one even noticing. She was at her shortest in season 4 and her longest in season 6. | Nothing unusal | |
| Drusilla (no middle or last name given) | approximately 5'7 | Blue (probably one of the most common mistakes in the fandom) | Very dark brown, looking black in some lights. Her hair appears quite long throughout the 1800s, and is a few inches below shoulder length at her arrival in Sunnydale. | The vamp can fight in heels and an ankle length dress... and win. I'd call that very well coordinated. We've only seen her in pants once, on Angel. | |
| Darla (given to her by the Master; she has no memory of her human name) | Unsure | Blue | Blonde, apparently naturally, and moderately straight. Her hair is quite long through 1900. At the time of her arrival in Sunnydale, it is just below shoulder length and layered. It has gotten slightly longer after she her raising and during her pregnancy and appearance as a ghost. | She has what is not quite a lisp. | |
| Cordelia Chase (no middle name given) | 5'7 ½ (the ½ is something of a running gag) | Brown | Naturally, dark brown and quite straight. Her hair remained long throughout her time in Sunnydale and the first season of Angel. She dyed it darker and cut it into a style that was unfortunately highly reminiscent of Monica Lewinski in season 2. She cut it again within a few months into a chin-length bob. During season 3, she went almost platinum blond and shorter. After returning from the "higher plane," her hair was slightly darker, and it continued to darken throughout season 4 as well as grow out, by the end, into a chin-length bob again. | Charisma Carpenter has several tatoos, though they seem out of place for Cordelia in some cases. These include a tattoo of a sun on her lower back, which has been fleeting glimpsed on camera, and a rosary around her left wrist, which for obvious reasons has never been filmed. She also has a flat, light brown mole, larger than a pencil eraser and smaller than a penny, on her lower right cheek, but it is usually hidden with makeup. | |
| Wesley Wyndham-Pryce | Approximately 6'2 | Blue | Brown. During his tenure in Sunnydale, his hair was quite straight and very conservative. In the third and fourth season of Angel, it became more piecey and had a tendency to curl. | Wore glasses at all times in Sunnydale, but began to do so less on Angel, until by season three he used them for reading and it was unusual to see them on for any other reason. | |
| Joyce Summers (no middle name, no maiden name) | Unsure | Brown | Brown, usually curly in a bouffant style. Her hair was shortest in season one and grew out to shoulder length where it remained for the rest of her time on the series. Despite brain surgery in season 5, her hair seems to have completely recovered in only a couple months. | Nothing unusual | |
| Riley Finn (no middle name given) | approximately 6'2 (so, technically, taller than Angel) | Hazel | This is an odd one, actually, as people have argued that he is either a dark blond through medium brown. It's actually quite difficult to tell. | Should have chest scar from surgery in season five. | |
| Daniel Osbourne (aka Oz, no middle name given) | 5'4, so shorter than Willow | Greenish-blue. | Appears that brown is his natural color, but he has been almost every possible color at some point, including red, black, blond, and blue. Hair is straight and is usually gelled almost straight up in spikes. | Aside from technicolor hair and a tendency to turn into a wolf during the full moon, nothing unusual. | |
| Tara Maclay (no middle name given) | approximately 5'4 (shorter than Willow) | Green-blue | Natural appears to be a fairly light brown, but Tara is usually blonde, ranging from lightest during season 4 to darkest in season 6. Her length ranged from shoulder length in season 4 to below shoulder length in season 6. | She has a stutter when under extreme pressure, but it is not constant. | |
| Krevlorneswath of the Deathwok Clan (a.k.a. Lorne or the Host) | 6'2 | Bright red | Rather hard to tell. Appears to be blond with brown tips and some undercurrents of green. Has a tendency to look heavily gelled and sticks up a bit. | He's green and red horns, but no one notices when he goes out in public. His heart is in his rump. He can be decapitated without dying. | |
| Lilah Morgan (no middle name given) | 5'9 | Blue | Brown, usually worn shoulder length in a style very reminiscent of the 1940s screen sirens. | Nothing unusual. | |
| The Master (novels list actual name as Heinrich Nest) | Unsure | Red | Bald | He has a bat's nose, his skin has absolutely no pigementation, and he is never out of vamp face. | |
| Jonathan Levinson (no middle name given) | 5'2 | Blue | Dark brown, quite short | Is the only person shorter than Buffy on the show. | |
| Andrew Wells (no middle name given) | 5'8 | Blue-green | Blondish, but it does not appear natural as there have been some darker roots. Generally, it's very spiky. | Nothing unusual seen. | |
| Warren Meers (no middle name given) | Unsure | Unsure | Dark brown with a tendency to spike up | Nothing unusual seen | |
| Faith (no middle or last name given) | 5'5 | Brown | Dark brown, almost black in some lights. Usually worn slightly below shoulder length and slightly layered. Usually has a loose curl. | Has a tribal tattoo on her upper right arm. | |
| Glory, sometimes referred to as Glorificus | 5'5 | Unsure | She's either blonde or strawberry blonde leaning to red. | Nothing unusual | |
| Kennedy (no middle or last names known) | 5'3 | Brown | Brown, some reddishness to it in certain scenes. Slightly above mid-back length. | Two words: tongue piercing | |
| Rona (no middle or last names known) | Unsure | Brown | Black, braided. Hangs just below shoulder. | Nothing unusal. | |
| Principal Robin Wood (no middle name) | Unsure | Brown | Bald | Nothing unusual | |
| Kendra (she has no last name) | Unsure | Brown | Black, curly, below shoulder length | Nothing unusual | |
| Kate Lockley (no middle name given) | 5'8 | Blue | Blonde, slightly below shoulder length | Nothing unusual | |
| Charles Gunn (no middle name given) | 6'3 | Brown | Bald | Nothing unusual seen | |
| Lindsey MacDonald (no middle name given) | Unsure | Blue | Dark blond to brown, worn slightly floppy | Lost his right hand at the end of season 1 of Angel, regained it just prior to his departure in season three. | |
| Winnifred Burkle (no middle name given) | 5'6 | Brown | Dark brown, curly, reaches roughly half back | Nothing unusual | |
| Allen Francis Doyle | 5'11 | Blue | Black | Can change to a demon with bluish-green skin, facial spikes, and red eyes. | |
| Connor Angel (no middle name given)a.k.a Stephen | 5'11 | Blue | Brown, straight, rather longish | Nothing unusual | |
| The Grusalugg, a.k.a. Groo | Unsure | Unnaturally bright blue | Brown, originally shoulder length but eventually in exactly the same style as Angel's | Nothing unusual | |
| Winnifred Burkle (a.k.a. Fred, no middle name known) | 5'6 | Brown | Brown, usually curly, about mid back length through most of season four Angel, then slightly shorter | Nothing unusual | |
| Harmony Kendell (no middle name known) | Unsure | Blue | Blonde, reaching from roughly waist length to midback length, usually straight but quite full | Nothing unusual... for a vampire. |
The above information was gathered from the Internet Movie Database, the various character appropriate wings of the Buffy Writer's Guild, viewing of screencaps at Flights of Angels and Much Ado About Buffy, convention interviews with the cast memembers, and observation. Height, in particular, varies a great deal with sources.
And, yes, Wes, Lorne, and Gunn are all taller than Angel.
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