‘Charmed’ cast: Where are they now?

Holly Marie Combs (Piper Halliwell)

Holly Marie Combs was the lovestruck Piper Halliwell, whose powers allowed her to freeze people and, later, blow them up by manipulating their molecules. Things certainly heated up between Piper and Leo Wyatt, the Whitelighter who became her husband. 

Combs first became known for playing Kimberly Brock, the eldest child on the CBS family drama Picket Fences. After Charmed, she appeared on another successful series as Lucy Hale‘s mother on Pretty Little Liars. In 2019, Combs reunited with costar Alyssa Milano for an episode of Grey’s Anatomy.

Combs has spoken candidly about the tensions behind the scenes of Charmed. In 2023, she revealed on Shannen Doherty’s podcast that costar Brian Krause, who Combs said was dating Milano at the time apologized to her during a fan panel about a year earlier.

“He just looked at me while someone was asking a question and just went, ‘I’m so sorry,’” Combs said. “We got off stage, and he just looked at me and said, ‘I’m so sorry. That must have been a terrible time for you.’”

Combs and Krause now host a Charmed rewatch podcast, The House of Halliwell with costar Drew Fuller. 

Combs was married to actor Bryan Travis Smith from 1993 to 1997. She has three sons — Finley, Riley, and Kelley — from her second marriage to David Donoho. In 2019, she married restaurateur Mike Ryan and became a stepmother to his daughter.

Shannen Doherty (Prue Halliwell)

Shannen Doherty played Prue, the eldest of the Halliwell sisters and the most powerful witch in the family, with the ability to move objects with her mind as well as astral projection. The character was killed off at the end of the third season, reportedly because of backstage drama. 

While appearing as a guest on iHeartRadio’s The House of Halliwell, a Charmed rewatch podcast hosted by costars Holly Marie Combs, Drew Fuller, and Brian Krause, Doherty spoke about her relationship to the show years later. “I never watched it, really, when I was on it, except the episodes I directed,” she said. “I just rewatched four or five episodes the other day, and my mouth dropped. I was like, ‘Oh my god, what show is this?’ I was pretty amazed by it all.” 

Doherty began acting as a child, nabbing a recurring role on Little House on the Prairie at age 11. Several years later, she played one of the “Heathers” in the classic teen satire Heathers (1988) before breaking out as Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210. She left the series after its fourth season and was later cast by producer Aaron Spelling on Charmed. 

After playing Prue, Doherty appeared as a regular on the short-lived primetime soap North Shore, reprised Brenda as a guest star in seven episodes of the CW’s 90210, and returned again for Fox’s six-episode sequel series BH90210. 

In July 2024, Doherty died of breast cancer at age 53. Her mother, Rosa, later announced that she would continue producing the Let’s Be Clear podcast in her daughter’s memory.

Alyssa Milano (Phoebe Halliwell)

Alyssa Milano played Phoebe, the sister who could see into the future and the past… although that didn’t keep her from being surprised by the twists and turns in her relationship with husband Cole. 

When she was 12 years old, Milano began playing Tony Danza’s daughter on the sitcom Who’s the Boss?. She also landed her first high-profile movie role as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s kidnapped daughter in Commando (1985). The actress later played Jennifer Mancini on Melrose Place before landing Charmed.

Milano has addressed reports of her poor on-set relationship with Shannen Doherty over the years. In 2021, she told Entertainment Tonight that things were “cordial” between them, while saying, “I could take responsibility for a lot of our tension that we had.” After Holly Marie Combs spoke out about her in 2023, Milano responded by saying, “I wanna be thoughtful because I don’t wanna add on to anyone else’s pain because I don’t think that’s cool either, so I will just say that I’m sad.”

After Charmed ended, the New Yorker appeared on the sitcom My Name Is Earl, the nighttime soap Mistresses, and Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later.

In 2017, Milano helped propel #MeToo into the mainstream when she encouraged survivors of sexual harassment and assault to use the hashtag on Twitter (now X), helping amplify the movement founded by activist Tarana Burke. Milano continues to advocate for political and social causes on her podcast, Sorry Not Sorry, and published a book of the same name in 2021.

Milano has been married to talent agent David Bugliari since 2009. They share two children, Milo and Elizabella.

Rose McGowan (Paige Matthews)

Rose McGowan entered the series in season 4 as the Halliwells’ half-sister, Paige, the daughter of a witch and a Whitelighter whose powers included orbing, healing, and generating an orb shield. 

McGowan’s breakthrough came in Wes Craven’s meta-slasher Scream (1996) as Sidney Prescott’s best friend Tatum. She was then a regular on the indie circuit, appearing in Going All the Way (1997) as well as Gregg Araki’s The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997). Before landing Charmed, she starred alongside Peter O’Toole and Ben Affleck in the Dean Koontz adaptation Phantoms (1998) and headlined the dark teen satire Jawbreaker (1999). 

After a small role in Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia (2006), McGowan appeared in both halves of the double feature Grindhouse (2007): In Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, she used her machine-gun leg to mow down zombies, while in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, she was Stuntman Mike’s unlucky first onscreen victim. The actress also had a recurring role on Nip/Tuck with Charmed costar Julian McMahon and later played another witch in the Jason Momoa-led remake of Conan the Barbarian (2011).

In 2017, McGowan became a prominent voice in the #MeToo movement and one of the earliest women to publicly accuse producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.

McGowan was engaged to singer Marilyn Manson in 2001 and director Robert Rodriguez in 2007 before marrying artist Davey Detail in 2013. The couple divorced in 2016.

Ted King (Andy Trudeau)

Ted King — credited as T.W. King while on the series — played Andy Trudeau, Prue’s high school sweetheart and an inspector with the San Francisco police force. Andy uncovered the Halliwell sisters’ secrets, but he was killed by a demon at the end of the first season.

Primarily a daytime soap actor, King began his career by playing Danny Roberts on the ABC dramas Loving and The City. After his year on Charmed, he returned to soaps as twin mobsters Luis and Lorenzo Alcazar on General Hospital. The actor also had a brief stint on One Life to Live.

For his recurring role on the CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful, he received a Daytime Emmy for best guest performance in 2022. King also landed a small part as Senator Bob Bartlett in Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture winner Oppenheimer (2023) and appeared in Original Sound (2026).

King married Maya Rodwell in 2008; they have two children.

Dorian Gregory (Darryl Morris)

Dorian Gregory played Darryl Morris, Andy’s partner and eventually the Halliwell sisters’ contact at the police department. He left the show after season 7.

Gregory established himself with roles on Baywatch Nights before his run on Charmed. He was also the fourth and final host of the musical variety show Soul Train from 2003 to 2006. Since then, he’s had guest spots on Las Vegas, Without a Trace, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Grey’s Anatomy.

Brian Krause (Leo Wyatt)

Brian Krause played Leo Wyatt, a charming Whitelighter who romanced Piper Halliwell. 

Krause’s pre-Charmed credits include Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991) and the Stephen King-penned horror film Sleepwalkers (1992). Following his work as Leo, he had guest spots on Mad Men, The Closer, Castle, and Dynasty. He currently cohosts The House of Halliwell podcast with Holly Marie Combs and Drew Fuller.

Though his character was beloved, Krause worried at the time that he would be written out of Charmed, telling The Wrap in 2018: “For me it’s just, being one of the only males on this show, any time Leo goes away it’s the fear of ‘Is it over for Leo?’ When we’re together, the only drama we can create is when I die or when I go away. Every single time I was concerned I wasn’t going to be a part of the show.”

Krause was married to Beth Bruce from 1996 to 2000. They share one son, Jamen.

Julian McMahon (Cole Taylor/Belthazor)

Julian McMahon appeared on Charmed as Cole Taylor, a half-demon also known as Belthazor (played in demon form by Michael Bailey Smith). In season 3, he’s sent by the Triad to kill the Halliwell sisters but falls in love with Phoebe and renounces his demonic nature. 

McMahon had fond memories of his time as Cole and expressed interest in returning for a potential Charmed movie. “Yeah, I would love to [play Taylor again]. I had such a great time on that show,” he told TheWrap in 2020. He also had a mini-reunion with costar Alyssa Milano at a 2023 fan convention.

McMahon was first known for his role on the Australian soap Home and Away before heading to Hollywood. He had a stint on Another World before landing a main cast role in the NBC crime drama Profiler. 

After leaving Charmed in 2003, he took on one of the most acclaimed roles of his career: amoral plastic surgeon Dr. Christian Troy on Ryan Murphy’s warped medical melodrama Nip/Tuck. During this time, he also played Victor Von Doom (a.k.a. Doctor Doom) in Fantastic Four (2005) and its 2007 sequel, Rise of the Silver Surfer. He later guest-starred on the CBS procedural FBI before leading its spinoff, FBI: Most Wanted.

McMahon died in 2025 from lung metastasis resulting from head and neck metastatic cancer. He was 56. McMahon is survived by his wife, Kelly Paniagua, and a daughter, Madison, whom he shared with ex-wife Brooke Burns.

Drew Fuller (Chris Halliwell)

Drew Fuller portrayed the mysterious Chris, who arrives in season 5 and turns out to be Piper and Leo’s son, sent back in time to avert a catastrophe. 

Fuller began his career as a model, appearing in commercials and music videos. Charmed was his first major acting role. After the series wrapped, he starred in the Lifetime drama Army Wives from 2007 to 2012. Since then, he’s appeared in episodes of Longmire and The Rookie, and now cohosts the House of Halliwell podcast.

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Fuller relished playing the role, as he discussed in a 2022 interview with Digital Journal: “Chris was really a lot of fun to play since he had secrets and I had to constantly execute things but without telling everyone how I was going to go about doing it so that was always fun.”

Kaley Cuoco (Billie Jenkins)

Kaley Cuoco played Billie Jenkins, a witch with the powers of telekinesis and reality-warping. She’s introduced in the eighth season looking for her sister, Christy, who was kidnapped by the Triad.

Famous for her sitcom roles, Cuoco landed her first big break as John Ritter’s eldest daughter on 8 Simple Rules before spending a year on Charmed. In a 2020 interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Cuoco described her first day on the show: “I came into that in their final year, which is really hard to do. The girls are really set in their ways, and I was the new girl. I walked onto the stage where they were shooting Alyssa and Rose… Alyssa came running up to me, gave me this huge hug and said, ‘Welcome to our show.’” 

After Charmed, she co-led the smash hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory as Leonard and Sheldon’s across-the-hall neighbor Penny. She later reprised the role in two episodes of the spinoff Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.

Cuoco has since voiced the title character on the animated series Harley Quinn, earned two Emmy nominations for her performance in the comedy thriller The Flight Attendant, and starred on the dark comedy series Based on a True Story. On film, she headlined the time-loop rom-com Meet Cute (2022) with Pete Davidson and the action comedy Role Play (2024).

Cuoco was married to professional tennis player Ryan Sweeting from 2013 to 2016. In 2018, she married equestrian Karl Cook; the couple separated in 2021 and finalized their divorce the following year. Cuoco began dating actor Tom Pelphrey in 2022, and they welcomed daughter Matilda in 2023. The couple became engaged in 2024 and announced in June 2026 that they were expecting a second daughter.