Charmed Turns 25: How Many of These Famous Guest Stars Do You Remember?
Ready to feel like an Elder? It’s been exactly 25 years since Prue, Piper and Phoebe Halliwell inherited their powers and became the Charmed Ones — a perilous journey that would involve crossing paths with some pretty famous (and famous-to-be) faces.
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So why not celebrate this magical milestone with a jaunt down memory lane? Remember when Piper got flirty with John Cho in Season 1? Or when Prue came to Amy Adams’ rescue in Season 2? What about Paige’s run-in with Jon Hamm in Season 7?
If you recently rewatched the series, which is now streaming in glorious HD on Peacock, these names probably won’t blow your mind. But if it’s been a while since you’ve visited the Halliwells’ corner of San Francisco, you might be surprised by how many memorable guest stars you’ve forgotten.
For the sake of keeping this list down to a manageable number, we’re excluding celebrities who appeared as themselves, either by performing at P3 or by making an ill-advised funeral cameo. (Janice Dickinson, anyone?)
Scroll down for a list of 50 famous faces on Charmed, then drop a comment with your favorite(s) below.
AMY ADAMS
Easily the biggest name on this list, Adams did quite a bit of TV work early on in her career — including a Season 2 episode of Charmed in which she played Maggie Murphy, a future Whitelighter cursed with a string of bad luck. (Hence the episode’s title, “Murphy’s Luck.”)
ANNIE WERSCHING
Before becoming a staple of supernatural TV shows (Runaways, The Vampire Diaries, Star Trek, etc.), the late, great Wersching was relatively new to the genre when she appeared in a Season 6 episode of Charmed, playing a leather-clad member of the deadly Demonatrix clan. (We’ll give you one guess why they were called that.)
ASHLEY TISDALE
Five years before starring in High School Musical, Tisdale found herself on the run from a banshee — more specifically, Phoebe as a banshee — in the penultimate episode of Charmed’s third season.
BALTHAZAR GETTY
Shortly before bringing the drama on Brothers & Sisters, Getty recurred in Charmed‘s sixth season as Richard Montana (yes, that was the character’s actual last name), Paige’s magic-averse boyfriend.
BECKI NEWTON
When the Charmed Ones chose to impulsively fake their deaths in the Season 7 finale, they needed to quickly conjure some disguises — and Piper’s looked an awful lot like Amanda from Ugly Betty.
BETHANY JOY LENZ
Though she’s best known for her nine seasons as Haley James Scott, Lenz appeared on several WB shows before booking One Tree Hill, including Charmed. A Season 4 episode found her playing a fairytale character named Lady Julia.
BILLY ZANE
By the time Season 7 rolled around, Charmed had gone completely off the rails — but there were a few bright spots in the later years, including Zane’s three-episode arc as former demon Drake. (Finding out that he’d been sent by Cole to help Phoebe re-open her heart made his demise even more tragic.)
BRUCE CAMPBELL
Let’s all be thankful that Campbell wasn’t wielding his Evil Dead chainsaw when he crossed paths with the Charmed Ones at the end of Season 4… or he might have actually succeeded in killing them!
CHARISMA CARPENTER
Given the prophetic powers she wielded on Angel, it only made sense for Carpenter to play a future-telling seer in Charmed’s seventh season. (If only she could have foreseen her imminent death!)
CHARLIE WEBER
After all the dirty deeds we’ve seen him commit on How to Get Away With Murder, it’s hard to imagine Weber as a chivalrous (not to mention baby-faced!) fairytale knight… and yet he played one in a Season 4 episode of Charmed.
CHERYL LADD
Given that Charmed was an Aaron Spelling show about a powerful trio of women, it was only fitting that the sisters should get a visit from one of Charlie’s Angels in Season 5.
CHRISTINA MILIAN
Two years before her debut single “AM to PM” topped every chart known to man, Milian guest-starred in a Season 2 episode of Charmed as a young kidnapping victim.
DANIEL DAE KIM
Kim’s evil Season 4 character was next-level stealthy, traveling through puddles of water — and even the Halliwells’ kitchen sink at one point — to get the jump on his enemies.
DANNEEL HARRIS ACKLES
The former One Tree Hill star also made a blink-and-you-missed-it appearance in the Season 7 finale, playing one of the sisters’ temporary new identities.
DAVID ANDERS
Is anyone beginning to suspect that this Vampire Diaries/iZombie alum might actually be a member of the undead? He hasn’t aged a day since playing an old-timey club owner in Charmed‘s seventh season.
DAVID CARRADINE
From one famous family to another, this Carradine tangled with the Halliwells in the Season 1 finale, playing a time demon named Tempus.
DEAN NORRIS
If Norris’ Breaking Bad character had the same powers as his Season 2 Charmed persona — specifically the ability to stab someone’s brain and absorb their memories — the AMC drama would have reached a much earlier conclusion.
ELAINE HENDRIX
Somewhere between The Parent Trap‘s Meredith Blake and Nü Dynasty‘s Alexis Carrington exists Clea, a demonic reality TV producer Hendrix played in Season 6.
ERIC DANE
Next to Cole, Dane’s character — a handsome millionaire named Jason Dean who appeared in nine episodes — was probably the closest Phoebe came to finding true love. (You know, before she settled for Coop.)
ERIC WINTER
Trying (and failing) to court Paige in a Season 5 episode of Charmed was merely practice for Winter’s future role in Lifetime’s tragically short-lived Witches of East End.
JAIME PRESSLY
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Pressley guest-starred in the Season 5 premiere as a mermaid… who made a bargain with a sea witch… and needed a man to profess his love to save her life. There weren’t any singing crabs, but you get the idea.
JAMES AVERY & BETSY RANDLE
This one’s for all you ‘90s kids out there! Who didn’t love spotting The Fresh Prince’s Uncle Phil and Boy Meets World’s Mrs. Matthews as they drifted in and out of the Charmed Ones’ collective orbit in the later seasons?
JASON LEWIS
He may have kept his clothes on for the duration of his six-episode arc in Season 8, but this Sex and the City alum still left his mark on Charmed — by temporarily wedding Alyssa Milano’s Phoebe.
JENNY MCCARTHY
McCarthy guest-starred in Season 6 as one of the Stillman Sisters, who briefly stole the Charmed Ones’ identities.
JODI LYN O’KEEFE
Playing a (good) witch on The Vampire Diaries was child’s play after her Season 6 appearance as Charmed‘s Spider Demon. (In an interview with TVLine, O’Keefe recalled having to be led around set by one of the ADs as a result of her demonic contacts compromising her vision.)
JOHN CHO
Despite appearing fully corporeal here, Cho was actually playing a ghost in this early Season 1 episode. (Early practice for The Exorcist, perhaps?)
JON HAMM
No, you’re not going Mad — this really is a shot of Hamm from a Season 7 episode, in which Paige and Kyle (RIP!) traveled back in time to find out the truth about his parents’ death.
JUSTIN BALDONI
Long before his days of inadvertently getting women pregnant on Jane the Virgin, Baldoni appeared in a Season 7 episode of Charmed, playing a rebellious li’l demon named Salko.
KEN MARINO
For Marino’s Season 5 guest spot, we were either going with this photo or the one of him bleeding out in a back alley. You’re welcome.
LESLIE GROSSMAN
It says a lot about Grossman’s charisma that we even remember her character, who appeared in literally one scene in one episode of Season 4.
MARISOL NICHOLS & LOCHLYN MUNRO
Before they were raising kids in Riverdale, Nichols (aka Hermione Lodge) and Munro (aka Hal Cooper) were raising hell on Charmed’s sixth and second seasons, respectively.
MARK SHEPPARD
A genre TV favorite, we’re not the least bit surprised that Sheppard appeared in a Season 5 episode of Charmed, playing a manipulative demon named Arnon.
MELINDA CLARKE
Clarke guest-starred in a Season 5 episode of Charmed playing a siren, a powerful seductress who preyed on vulnerable married men. (Come to think of it, was this just her audition tape for The O.C.?)
MELISSA GEORGE
If you ever watched George on The Good Wife or Grey’s Anatomy and wondered what she would look like as the leader of a group of battle-ready valkyries, allow us to direct you to Charmed’s Season 6 premiere.
MICHAEL TREVINO
Vampire Diaries fans, say hi to baby Tyler Lockwood.
MICHAEL WEATHERLY
Nearly 20 years before Weatherly left NCIS, he left a coven of evil warlocks — with an assist from the Charmed Ones, of course.
MICHAELA WATKINS
Watkins guest-starred in a Season 3 episode, which found her being casually stalked by the Angel of Death. (Spoiler alert: He got her.)
MISHA COLLINS
Long before sprouting wings of his own on Supernatural, Collins appeared in Season 2 as a one-off character that sincerely referred to Phoebe as an angel. If only he knew…
NICK LACHEY
When Phoebe decided to take a sabbatical atop Season 7, the newspaper hired a ghostwriter — one that came with his own boy band.
NORMAN REEDUS
You’ve seen Reedus handle his fair share of zombies on The Walking Dead, but his brief Season 5 arc on Charmed revealed the one enemy he may never overcome: his fear of commitment.
RAINN WILSON
If you thought Wilson played a nightmare on The Office, you should have seen him as a knife-wielding alchemist in this Season 3 episode of Charmed.
ROBERT ENGLUND
Lest you doubt the Charmed Ones’ badassery, know that they defeated Freddy Krueger (or at least the actor who originally portrayed him) in a Season 4 episode.
RON PERLMAN
The future Sons of Anarchy patriarch guest-starred in a Season 3 episode of Charmed, playing the organizer of an underground — like, way underground — wrestling club for demons.
SARAH RAFFERTY
The dress code at Wyatt’s pre-school — where Suits star Rafferty played a judgmental teacher in Season 6 — was considerably more casual than the one at Pearson Specter Litt.
SEBASTIAN ROCHÉ
Roché’s mission to appear in every supernatural drama on television (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Fringe, etc.) included a pit top in Season 7 of Charmed.
SHERRI SAUM
Way before becoming one of The Fosters, Shaum played a ghost — formerly a witch, before she was murdered — in a Season 3 episode.
TOBIN BELL
Oh, you thought Bell was terrifying as Jigsaw? You clearly haven’t seen his guest appearance in Season 5 of Charmed, in which he walked around town gouging out gypsies’ eyeballs.
ZACHARY QUINTO
Like his character on Heroes, Quinto spent much of his Season 5 episode running around trying to cut people open — only he had to use a knife in this case. (Sorry, Silar!)
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