Prue Halliwell

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## Biographical information

### Alias

* Ms. Hellfire
* Manny Hanks

## Physical description

### Species

* Wizard (formerly)
* Spirit

## Family information

### Siblings

* Piper Halliwell
* Phoebe Halliwell
* Paige Matthews

### Parents

* Patty Halliwell †
* Victor Bennett

### Grand-parents

* Penny Halliwell †
* Allen Halliwell †

### Otherrelatives

* Leo Wyatt (brother-in-law)
* Cole Turner (ex-brother-in-law) †
* Henry Mitchell (brother-in-law)
* Duncan Growden (brother-in-law)
* Unborn nephew †
* Wyatt Halliwell (nephew)
* Chris Halliwell (nephew)
* Melinda Halliwell (niece)
* Tamora Mitchell (niece)
* Kat Mitchell (niece)
* Henry Mitchell Jr. (adoptive nephew)
* Rose Growden (niece)
* Elodie Growden (niece)
* Aaron Growden (nephew)
* Trent Lawrence
* Tanner Lawrence
* Royer Woodward

## Magical characteristics

### Activepowers

* Telekinesis
* Astral Projection
* Possession (as a spirit)
* Wisping (as a spirit)

### Inactivepowers

* The Power of Three (formerly)
* Invisibility (as a spirit)
* Intangibility (as a spirit)

### Basicpowers

* Spell Casting
* Potion Brewing
* Scrying
* Mediumship

### Magical items

* Book of Shadows
* The Grimoire (formerly)
* Empyreal Sword (formerly)
* Ancient Athame (formerly)

### Fears

* Losing her family
* Drowning (conquered)

### Desires

* A normal life (formerly)
* To continue being a Charmed One (formerly)

## Affiliation

### Occupation

* Caretaker to the connections between the Realms (formerly)
* 415 Magazine's Photo Journalist (formerly)
* Auction Specialist (formerly)

### Loyalty

* The Charmed Ones
* The Elders (formerly)
* The Order of The Archane (formerly)
* Good

## Character information

### Portrayed by

* Shannen Doherty
* Emmalee Thompson (little Prue)

> A lot has happened to me in the past year and a half. I've seen… I've seen things I never imagined existed and it's changed me. It's made me wanna make changes.
>
> Prue reflecting on her life., Awakened

**Prudence "Prue" Halliwell** was the oldest Charmed One, and had always been regarded as the bravest and most powerful of the four sisters, to the extent that she was granted the nicknames "*Super Wizard*" and "*Wizard Wonder*". She is the older sister to  Piper and Phoebe Halliwell, and the older maternal half-sister to Paige Matthews. Prue is the firstborn to Patty Halliwell and Victor Bennett.

Her powers were focused on mind and movement: the ability to move objects with her mind, and the ability to project herself in an astral form. Besides this, Prue possessed the basic powers of a wizard: the ability to cast spells, brew potions and scry for lost objects or people. She could also access the Power of Three, the collective power of the Charmed Ones.

Prue worked as a successful photojournalist at 415 Magazine, a career she wanted to pursue since her youth, but had given up until being introduced to the world of magic made her realize that her dreams were worth fighting for.

Despite her formidable powers and sharp intellect, Prue was tragically murdered on May 17, 2001, in her own home by the Source of All Evil's personal assassin, Shax, which temporarily severed The Power of Three altogether.

## Powers and Abilities

As the oldest Charmed One, Prue's powers were the strongest of the current generation—and would have stayed that way if her death had never occurred.

*Basic Powers*
* **Spell Casting:** The ability to cast spells and perform rituals.
* **Potion Brewing:** The ability to brew potions.
* **Scrying:** The ability to locate a person or object by use of a scrying crystal, a map, and sometimes other tools.
* **Mediumship:** The ability to see and commune with spirits of the dead.

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*Active Powers*
* **Telekinesis:** The ability to move objects and beings with the mind. This was Prue's primary ability as a wizard which she could channel through her eyes and hand gestures. As a spirit, she used Telekinesis to close the front door of the manor.

* + **Telematerialization:** The ability to use telekinesis to teleport liquids.
	+ **Deviation:** The ability to use a power to deflect magical energies and objects back in the direction they came from. Prue was able to push attacks or powers back telekinetically.
	+ **Enhanced Agility:** The ability to enhance one's physical agility, speed, and balance. Prue achieves this ability through the use of Telekinesis and was able to perform enhanced acrobatics. Prue was shown to be very skilled in this ability and often combined her agility with her physical strength.
	+ **Super Strength:** The power to exert a level of physical strength much greater than that of a normal person. Prue demonstrated this a number of times to best enemies in close combat by combining her telekinetic power with her physical force.

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* **Astral Projection:** The ability to project the consciousness in an astral form outside of the body. Prue developed this power in her second year of being a wizard. It allowed her to project to another location and interact with things in a solid form while her real body remained unconscious. She could not use Telekinesis during the projection. However, Prue did become capable of projecting her astral form from one place to another without returning to her physical body; in one case, dematerializing to avoid gunshots and then rematerializing at the other side of the room, and she still demonstrated the basic wizard ability to cast spells. Prue taught Leo how to astrally project using her telekinesis in astral mode shortly before her untimely demise. This information came in handy when Leo passed it on to the other sisters during their fight against Zankou.

*Spirit Powers*
* **Wisping:** A method of teleportation exclusive to ghosts. Prue used this power to return with Andy to the afterlife.
* **Intangibility:** The ability to be intangible and move through solid objects.
* **Invisibility:** The ability to be unseen by the naked eye. Prue was invisible to her sisters when she and Andy were watching them.
* **Possession:** The ability to enter the body of another being and possess it. Prue used this power to take over Patience's comatose body.

*Natural Abilities*
* **Antique Specialist:** Prue was knowledgeable in antiques from ancient archeology to a Yankee baseball card. She can examine an artifact and easily recognize it either as a real object or a fake.

* **Fluency in Latin:** Prue was fluent in the Latin language as she was able to decipher spells and quote many texts.

* **Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Though it was not shown or revealed during her early years as a wizard, Prue was formidably skilled in hand-to-hand combat, which came into play during her fights against Vinceres and, later, the Demonic Wrestlers, where she was shown to use her telekinetic powers to enhance her combat skills. Given how she was never shown taking martial-arts classes on screen, and yet her combat skills were revealed to be far superior to those of Phoebe's (the only sister shown to have taken self-defense classes), it is likely that Prue had actually taken up martial-arts long before she became a Charmed One, but only applied her combat skills once she had become fully comfortable with her powers.

1. ↑ As seen in the obituary in Charmed Again, Part 1.