You know Charisma Carpenter best as Cordelia from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. You may have even caught her recurring roles on Charmed and Veronica Mars.

But did you realize that Charisma Carpenter appeared in Playboy Magazine? Charisma appeared on the cover of the June 2004 Playboy, and was featured in an all-nude, 10-page pictorial. Don’t worry - we’ve got ‘em:

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Charisma also sat down for a 12 question interview in which she revealed, “Posing in Playboy is about finding joy, liberation and warmth.” Here are some other choice tidbits from the interview:

• If Charisma Carpenter was going to film a girl-on-girl action scene with one of her TV costars, it would be with Stephanie Romanov, the actress who played Lilah on Angel.
• Charisma has had sex in the bathroom at an Oscar party and on a highway in a moving car.
• She has a nickname for her girl parts.

Playboy isn’t the only place the stunning Charisma Carpenter has posed nude or topless. She appeared in Maxim UK:

and has been featured in scantily clad photos in Stuff, Edge, and FHM.

Check out her IMDB entry to find out what Charisma Carpenter is doing in the world of film and television acting and to find out when this former NFL cheerleader will be on TV.