Charis Vera Ng is a British Actress for Stage, Film and Television as well as a Singer-Songwriter. She was born March 17th in Kent, Farnborough in the United Kingdom. Her ethnic heritage is made up of Peranakan-Chinese on her father's side, and Vietnamese-Chinese and Mongolian on her mother's side. After her first TV appearance Kids Talk Back when she was 6, Charis Vera spent the rest of her childhood growing up in the Theatre industry in Asia. She landed her first lead role at 13, in a Musical Theatre piece called The Father's Hand. With the support of her mother, veteran actress Anne Law, she spent the rest of her teenage years balancing school, auditions and theatre/film related projects. She went on to study Acting for film in Hollywood in 2010 and in 2012, won a full scholarship at the prestigious Intercultural Theatre Institute in Singapore (formerly known as TTRP, founded and run by T. Sasitharan and the late Kuo Pao Kun). Here she underwent Asian Theatre Immersions such as Kuttiyatam (Traditional Indian Theatre) juxtaposed by Western systems developed by Anton Chekhov and Konstantin Stanisvlasky. Amongst others, she is best known for The Father's Hand (2004; Musical), Skins (2006; Play), Paperstars (2007 - Singapore Film Archives), Tadpoles (2012) by Director Ivan Tan which won an award at the Locarno Film Festival, What Do Men Want (2014) which picked up an Outstanding Directing award at the LA Web Series Festival as well as Perfect Girl (2014), now featured on Netflix and which went on to pick up several awards at the LA Web Series Festival 2015. She most recently starred in Wabi-Sabi (2015) opposite her own mother, a project she says was "long overdue". Charis Vera Ng launched Ms C's Little Blackbox in June 2013. Here she creates and runs applied Drama programs - using theatre to engage youths who are classified as At-Risk/ NEET (Not In Education or Employment), Special Education Needs as well as those in mental health recovery. She has spent 9 years as a Drama Educator in mainstream and special needs government schools, working closely with the National Arts Council to continuously shape the landscape of Arts Education in Asia to include communities on the fringes.
Charis Williams is known for 200 Grains of Hell, Getting the Builders In (2017) and Kings of the Wood (2022).
Charise Bourdas Niday is an actress, known for The Campus (2018).
Charise Castro Smith is a producer and writer, known for Encanto (2021), The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and Raya and the Last Dragon (2021).
Charise Ogan is known for Sweet Face (2020).
Charish Harvey is an actress, known for You Will Love Me (2013).
Charishma Shreekar is known for Premalo (2024).
Charishma Sreekar is known for Rudrangi (2023).
Charisma was born on February 15, 1970. She is an actress.
Charisma Carpenter first made her television debut with a guest spot on Baywatch (1989), before receiving a call from legendary producer Aaron Spelling and subsequently being cast on the prime time soap opera, Malibu Shores (1996). But her big break - and the one that would forever change the trajectory of her life - came shortly thereafter when she was cast as Cordelia Chase on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), a role she would portray for three seasons before migrating to its spin-off series, Angel (1999), and continuing on for four more seasons. In total, Carpenter portrayed Cordelia in 140 episodes across both franchises. The former series has been ranked by Time, The Hollywood Reporter, TV Guide, Rolling Stone, and Entertainment Weekly among their lists of greatest television series' of all time. Carpenter went on to recur on Charmed (1998) as the demon Kyra and on Veronica Mars (2004) as gold digging stepmother Kendall Casablanacas as well as Greek (2007) and, most recently, CW's Pandora (2019). While working as a series regular on ABC Family's The Lying Game (2011), Carpenter subsequently served as host and producer of Investigation Discovery's Surviving Evil (2013), a series featuring survivors who fought back against their attackers. Additional guest starring roles include CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Burn Notice (2007), Supernatural (2005), Blue Bloods (2010), Sons of Anarchy (2008), Scream Queens (2015), Chicago P.D. (2014), Lucifer (2016), and 9-1-1 (2018). Carpenter has also segued into movies, with a supporting role as Lacey in The Expendables (2010) and its sequel, The Expendables 2 (2012), as well as roles in over 12 made for television movies for Lifetime, Syfy and more. Offscreen, Carpenter is the proud founder of MyCon, a platform intended to lift the spirits of socially isolated fans throughout the pandemic by connecting them with their favorite actors. Additionally, she works closely with the Thirst Project, an international water charity bringing safe, clean drinking water to the most vulnerable people around the world, as well as The Ronan Thompson Foundation, which is dedicated to researching pediatric cancer. In addition to her first love, that of a devoted mother, Carpenter spends much of her time working as a philanthropist, political activist, and social justice advocate. So passionate about these causes, she recently completed a course on administrative justice.