Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Stars You Didn't Know Were on the Show

16 Huge Stars You Totally Forgot Were on' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'

Amy Adams, is that you? Pedro Pascal? The hit '90s show is full of very familiar faces

Maria Yagoda

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Zoey Lyttle

Published on March 10, 2017 09:00AM EST

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Pedro Pascal

The Last of Us star made an all too brief appearance in Buffy's season 4 opener, an episode titled "The Freshman." Pascal's character, Edward, meets the vampire slayer herself on their first day of college, and they bond over their mutual new student nerves. However their plans to reconnect are interrupted when Edward meets a pack of vampires. They turn him into one as well, and Buffy has no choice but to end their friendship with a stake.

Over two decades later, Sarah Michelle Gellar recalled her time on screen with Pascal. "When #Mother met #Father," she captioned a throwback Instagram of the two in character on set.

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Rachel Bilson

Bilson guest starred as potential Slayer Colleen in the season 7 episode "Dirty Girls," a title which The O.C. alum's role helps to explain. She and another maybe-Slayer appear in a snoozing Xander's quickly interrupted sexy dream.

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Alexandra Breckenridge

The actress plays Sunnydale High student Kit Holburn, who befriends Buffy's younger sister, Dawn, when they both start seeing dead people around campus. When Breckenridge's character is attacked by Manifest spirits alongside Dawn, they're luckily saved by the slaying big sister.

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Phill Lewis

Before he played The Suite Life of Zack and Cody's no-nonsense hotel manager, Mr. Moesby, Lewis was Sunnydale High's guidance counselor, Mr. Platt. Buffy takes a liking to the advisor after paying him a few visits, but it's not long before Mr. Platt is brutally mauled and murdered by another student, Pete Clarner (John Patrick White).

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K. Todd Freeman

In more recent years, K. Todd Freeman has appeared on Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events and Nathan Fielder's HBO series The Rehearsal. First, however, he played a blood sucker by the name of Trick on season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Clea DuVall

If you don't remember Sunnydale High student Marcie Ross (pictured second from left), you're not alone. DuVall's character was so dismissed, forgotten and overlooked by her peers that she literally turned invisible. Completely unseen by others, the girl spent months haunting the school, scaring and bullying those who mistreated her. Buffy eventually ends her ghostly reign of terror using her Slayer powers.

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Amy Adams

The Oscar-nominated actress guest-starred in the season 5 episode "Family," where she plays Tara's nasty cousin Beth.

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Kal Penn

The Harold and Kumar star plays a bro-y UC Sunnydale student in the season 4 episode "Beer Bad," in which the beer he and Buffy are drinking has been put under a spell by a bitter bar owner.

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Ben Affleck

While he didn't appear in the series, he did give a glorious performance as a teen basketball player in the 1992 classic, yet misunderstood film, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. So we're counting it.

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Wentworth Miller

In season 2, the Prison Break actor played Gage Petronzi, a member of the Sunnydale High swim team. To improve his performance, his coach gives him fish steroids and he ends up turning into a gill monster. Typical high school stuff.

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Shane West

Another high school swimmer with an unfortunate storyline! The actor played Sean Dwyer in the season 2 episode "Go Fish," and he was also transformed into a gill monster.

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