Willow Rosenberg

Willow Rosenberg is a major character in the Buffyverse. Being the deuteragonist of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a supporting character in Angel. 
She appears in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the deuteragonist of season one, the tritagonist of three, four and seven, a major character in season five and as the secondary antagonist (in the form of Dark Willow) in season six. In Angel she appears as a guest character in seasons one, two, three and four.
She was portrayed by , who also played Michelle Flaherty in the American Pie series, and Lily Aldrin in How I Met Your Mother. 
==Overview==
Willow plays an integral role within the inner circle of friends - nicknamed the "Scooby Gang" - who support Buffy Summers, a teenager gifted with superhuman powers to defeat vampires, demons, and other evil in the fictional town of Sunnydale. The series begins as Buffy, Willow, and their friend Xander Harris are in 10th grade. Willow is introduced as a shy, nerdy girl with little confidence, but over the course of the series she grows more self-assured, especially after coming out as a lesbian and finding love with her girlfriend, Tara Maclay.
==Biography==
Willow Rosenberg was born in circa 1981 to Ira and Sheila Rosenberg. Since kindergarten, she had been best friends with Xander Harris and was also close friends with Amy Madison during junior high.
During the tenth grade, Willow befriended Buffy when she just moved to Sunnydale. 
==Abilities==
She has inherent magical abilities and begins to study witchcraft; as the series progresses, Willow becomes more sure of herself and her magical powers become significant if inconsistent. Her dependence on magic becomes so consuming that it develops into a dark force that takes her on a redemptive journey in a major story arc when she becomes the sixth season's main villain, threatening to destroy the world in a fit of grief and rage after Tara is murdered by Willow's archenemy, Warren Mears.
==Trivia==
*Willow was portrayed by actress Riff Regan in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer pilot.
*Willow is Jewish. Despite this, she has crosses nailed to her walls to ward off vampires after she uninvited Angel into Buffy's house with a magical ritual.
*She and Buffy are the only two characters to appear in all 144 episodes of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
**Additionally, she, Angel, Xander, Buffy and Giles are the only characters to appear in the first and last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
**With 147 television appearances, Willow makes the third most number of appearances after Angel (168 episodes) and Buffy (150 episodes).
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