Cast

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(Alyssa Milano) Season 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
Free-spirited, imaginative, and probably even rebellious, it is the youngest sister, Phoebe, whose curiosity and impulsiveness – or what Prue would say, recklessness - that claims the Power of Three for the Halliwell sisters. As she rushed in without a lot of contemplation, she is the most excited about the possibilities of being a witch, and also as well as the most disappointed that she does not have a more dynamic power. The randomness of a vision from the past, present or future hitting her fits well with her carefree personality. Possibly the most creative among her sisters, Phoebe was credited most for her ability to create spells and to actually cast successful spells. However, in season 3, Phoebe was unable to cast away her love for Cole, a tortured half - demon, half - man who was sent by The Triad to get rid of the sisters. However, their love for each other was tested over and over again, first by Prue, then Piper, Paige, Leo and eventually, The Source, each time growing stronger and stronger. Phoebe was never discourage, though and kept trying to fight for her love. However, no matter what visions she had, she could have never predict that Cole would unwittingly become The Source one day. In season 1, Phoebe was granted the power of clairvoyance. Slowly, through meditation and her determination, she finally mastered how to call up a vision whenever she wants, although sometimes, a vision would still randomly hit her. Phoebe’s powers began to grow beyond the point having to touch an item and grew to such a point that she was able to have a vision about a particular person, as long as that person was in the room. In season 3, Phoebe gets a new power: Levitation, which is a kick ass power when she incorporates it into her martial arts training. But unlike her psychic powers, her relationship with Cole was a complete standoff. Her marriage with Cole, as time progresses, began to sway as her trust in Cole to remain good falters. To top it off, she has to cope and mediate with the constant bickering between Piper and Paige. It was her love for Cole that kept her sane and she finally realize how Piper felt in a situation where she has to make peace between two sisters. Although she has a part to play in vanquishing Cole, The New Source, she was also constantly held back due to her love for Cole.

 

(Holly Marie Combs) Season 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
Sweet, down to earth, funny even in times of danger, empathetic and always suffering in the hands of Love, Piper was constantly mediating between Prue and Phoebe, who seemed to have a never-ending feud, sometimes even at the cost of her own needs. Prue might be the natural born leader in the Halliwell line but Piper was the champion when it comes to home making. This makes her seemed to be an ideal wife, but sadly, most demons and warlocks do not think it this way. A romantic optimist despite some evil ex-boyfriends, Piper remains hopeful that Mr. Right will appear on her doorstep. When he does, her power to freeze time could make that moment really last. But however, when that moment came, Piper was torn between their neighbor, Dan, a caring young man who falls in love with Piper at the first sight, and their whitelighter, Leo, the impossibly sweet and “healing” man. A born nurturer, she is a talented chef who ends up managing the restaurant Quake when she scored a perfect and “magical” dish with Chef Moore. Piper is a really good cook that everyone likes her food. But in season 2, she decided to open up her own restaurant but has to settle with a club, which led to the birth of the famous P3. Piper and Leo wants to get married in season 3 but they could not due to the objection from Leo’s bosses (namely The Elders). However, their love came through when The Elders eventually relented after they discovered that Leo and Piper were really true for each other. They then married in the traditional “hand-fasting”, with Prue, Phoebe, Victor, Penny and Patty as witnesses. In season 1, Piper has the power to freeze things, which comes in handy from time to time. As time goes by, she has more control over her powers, where she was able to freeze selected people in a room, to freeze people in the open place and eventually, being able to freeze certain body parts of a being, although that was rarely done. Her powers also evolved together with her feelings, when she discovered her power to combust things. Although it made demon vanquishing a lot easier, she was unable to cope with the “explosive” power until well into season four, when she finally learn how to alternate between her freezing and combusting powers. However, Piper’s sweet and mild personality was transformed when the sudden death of her beloved sister, Prue, forced her to take on the role of the eldest sister. Thus, Piper was much more protective, commanding and easily irritated in season 4, where she seemed to be very short-tempered when Paige was around. But towards the end of season 4, they eventually learnt to live with one another. In season 5, Piper discovered that she is pregnant, which make her even more protective. The baby, Wyatt Matthews Halliwell (yes, a baby boy) is possibly the center of Piper’s attention after he was born, since a lot of demons seemed to be interested in this innocent and lovable baby.

 

(Rose McGowan ) Season 4 and 5
A hybrid between a witch and a whitelighter, Paige is the little, long lost half-sister of the Charmed Ones and the daughter from Patty and her lover whitelighter, Sam. After Prue's sudden death, Paige experienced the “missing” part of her life with her half-sisters and her powers. When she was first introduced to the idea of having two witch half sisters, the idea of witchcraft and them being the most powerful witch of all times, she was skeptical, exactly how Prue had behaved when Phoebe told them they had powers. Being the “late developer”, she has to do a lot of catching up and was constantly annoyed at the fact that Piper expect her to be like Prue, a super witch who knows everything, when she would rather spent her time drawing. Piper and Paige’s relationship suffered deeply and they never really hit off well, until they were forced to work together to save their sister, Phoebe, from becoming another doll collection of The Collector. Paige was living happily with her boyfriend, in her messy apartment and working as a counselor at the South Bay Social Services, until she was called upon to fight evil. She had some rebellious years when she was a teenager, another similarity she had with Prue, but eventually grow up to be an upright yet rash counselor after the death of her beloved foster parents. Life was never easy for her, for she had to slowly pick herself up when her parents died and fight for her future. However, her love life was no any better from her sisters, although she was spared from the different love trials her sisters, Prue, Piper and Phoebe, faced. In season 4, Paige always had the ability to telekinetic orb things, an "heritage" ability of Prue and to orb her, which is the ability of a whitelighter. It was this ability that saved her from the horrible car crash, which killed her parents. In season 4, Paige experienced a lot of upper level demonic attacks, which probably explains why her powers grew faster than her sisters did. By the middle of season 4, she was able to orb herself from place to place at will, to heal and to sense for someone.
 

(Shannen Doherty) Season 1, 2 and 3
Practical, levelheaded, independent and possibly hot-tempered, Prue sacrificed her childhood to help raise her young sisters, namely Piper and Phoebe. Although rebellious in her teenage years, Prue could be counted as an expert when it comes to antiques and collectibles. In the beginning of story, she returns to her childhood home (the famous indestructible-despite-attacks-from-demons Halliwell Manor) when their Grams, who willed the mystical manor to the sisters, died from a heart attack. Ever suspicious of everyone, she always had her defenses up when someone, especially Cole, was around in their lives. Always deeming her youngest sister’s (Phoebe) actions, especially when Phoebe claimed that they are the strongest witches of all time, as ridiculous, even the sensible Prue is swept away by passion when her high school sweetheart, police inspector Andy Trudeau gets back in her life. But such passion does not last long, as Andy died in a demonic attack after learning their true identities. After that, Prue was subjected to the test of love, with Jack and Bane. In season 1, Prue has the power to move objects with her mind and her powers grew to a point that in season 2, she was actually able to channel her powers through her hands. At the same time, she was also blessed with the power to astral project. In season 2, the other most notable event was that she quit her job in Buckland and went on to be a photographer for 415 Magazine. But sadly, Prue met with mishap in season 3, when The Source personally sent an assassin to go after them. In an attempt to save her sisters, Phoebe promised a deal with The Source: that he is to allow Cole to inform her sisters about the attack of Shax. But The Source went back on his words and with no help from Phoebe’s spell and the late arrival of Leo, Prue suffered the same fate as Andy Trudeau when she crashed through the wall. Thus, The Source succeeded in its evil plot of breaking The Power Of Three and granting The Source a temporary upper hand over her remaining sisters.