Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Angel is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt for the American television programs "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spin-off series "Angel". The character is portrayed by actor David Boreanaz. As introduced in "Buffy" in 1997, Angel is a love interest for heroine Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a young woman whose destiny as "the Slayer" is to fight the forces of evil, such as vampires and demons. However, their relationship is complicated by the fact that Angel is himself a vampire cursed with remorse and a human soul, which motivates
Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) (voiced by David Boreanaz) in more adventures set during "Buffy"'s first season. Following a 2008 leak of the pilot to YouTube, Loeb expressed some hope that the series may be resurrected in some form. In 2007, Angel began appearing in two canonical continuations of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" from Joss Whedon. The first of these was "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight", published by Dark Horse Comics, which continued the story of the "Buffy" television series. Later that year, Whedon and IDW Publishing released the series "", which continued on from the series finale of "Angel". The two