Pru Halliwell: 1970-2001 The eldest sister. Extremely powerful. Self-sacrificing to a fault. Basically charged with the task of taking care of her two younger sisters at a very young age when her mother died. Extremely responsible in both her working job and her Charmed duties---incapable of “slacking.†Has a very strong personality and very stringent views on the world. Is calm and pragmatic, and never lets anything get in the way of her responsibilities—her job, her Charmed duties, or her family. The strong, stable one in the family. Powers: psycho-kinesis. Piper Halliwell: 1973-20??: Calm and practical. The mediator between her sisters Pru and Pheobe. Takes her Charmed responsibilities very seriously, but yearns for a “normal†life, and constantly fights to balance the two. Very loyal. In one breath loses her sister Pru, who she always viewed as the strong one, the glue that held the family together, and became the oldest sister, responsible for her family—a job that she takes up whole-heartedly. Will do anything to protect her family—her sisters, husband and children. Powers: freezing, blowing things up. Phoebe Halliwell: 1975-20?? The free spirit of the family. Growing up the youngest in the family, she was the experimenter—the only sister to leave the family and the state for college, she was always the rebellious one. Extremely intuitive and feeling-oriented, she was constantly searching for love and her own place in the world. Similar to Piper, her role changed instantly with the death of her older sister; she became the middle sister, the mediator in the family, as she welcomed Paige and dealt with Piper’s tentativeness towards reconstituting the Charmed Ones. This metamorphosis is instrumental in Phoebe’s vast maturity throughout the show—the switch from the rebellious, jobless and aimless younger sister to the mature, able, successful and settled middle sister. Perhaps the sister to whom Charmed duties are most important, Phoebe loves being a witch. Powers: Premonitions, Levitating, Empathy. Paige Matthews: 1977-20?? The youngest “long-lost†sister in the family. Never meeting Pru, she nonetheless felt connected to the sisters, and for this reason went to Pru’s funeral and found her family. The child of the girls’ mother and her whitelighter Sam, Paige is thus half witch and half whitelighter. Given up at birth due to a fear of ramifications of a witch/whitelighter coupling, Paige was adopted by two loving parents who died in a car crash before she went to college. At first frightened of her new life upon meeting the sisters, she soon learned to embrace it whole-heartedly, even later taking on the magical responsibility in the family (for a time) and running magic school. At first conflicted about finding her new identity and trying to fill Pru’s shoes, she soon comes into her own and finds her own power base, as a sister and a witch. Powers: Orbing. Leo Wyatt: 1924-1942 The girls’ whitelighter and Piper’s husband. At first instigates himself into their lives by posing as their handyman, until Pheobe discovers his true identity. Fiercely loyal to the girls and especially to Piper, his love for her is unwavering—despite his brief stint as an elder. Will do anything to keep his family together. Cole Turner/Balthazar: 1885-2003 Half human/half demon. His demon half was hired to kill the Charmed ones. To instigate himself in their lives he dated Phoebe, but fell in love with her and thus was unable to kill her and her sisters, despite his many opportunities. After Phoebe saved him instead of vanquishing him, he came back, determined to be good and to win her love. For a while he succeeds, and even becomes human, but soon later he becomes the new Source. He hides this from Phoebe for a time, and marries her; his demon and human half conflicted once again. He is soon vanquished by the sisters, but this vanquish doesn’t stick and he comes back from the dead even more powerful than before and as determined as ever to win Phoebe back. It is this determination which results in his eventual (and final) vanquish. Perhaps the most conflicted character on the show. Powers: fire balls, shimmering, conjuring, invincibility (and countless others). Manor: The home of the girls as well as their power base, location of the Nexus.