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Phoebe Halliwell
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Something Wicca This Way Comes
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Forever Charmed
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Constance M Burge
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Phoebe Halliwell
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Alive
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Witch Empath Charmed One
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The Charmed Ones, The Bay Mirror
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Piper Halliwell , Prue Halliwell (sisters), Paige Matthews (half sister), Leo Wyatt (brother-in-law), Wyatt Halliwell , Chris Halliwell (nephews), Victor Bennett (father), Patricia Halliwell (mother), Cole Turner (former husband), Dex Lawson (former husband)
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Alyssa Milano
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is a
Fictional Character on the
WB Television Series ''
Charmed ''.
She is played by
Alyssa Milano , who is now also a producer of the series.
Initially, she has the power of
Premonition (and to an extent,
Psychometry , where her contact with objects shows her visions of the past). Later, she developed the powers of
Levitation and
Empathy . After being stripped of those powers for a few months, she has recently regained her ability to receive premonitions. She has stated that she doesn't really miss the other abilities all that much. It is unlikely she will regain the power of levitation for financial reasons on the show, and it is said that she might regain her empathy because fans did not like seeing her powerless and weak on the show. It is unclear whether or not Phoebe has her empathic abilities back, but the most likely answer is no. There have been several times where her empathic ability would have been useful, but she did not use it. Her empathic abilities also allowed her to channel her enemies' powers and send them back, much like telekinesis.
Phoebe Halliwell was born in her family manor at 1329 Prescott Street,
San Francisco, California on
November 2 ,
1975 to the witch
Patricia Halliwell and mortal
Victor Bennett . Phoebe had two older sisters,
Prudence Halliwell and
Piper Halliwell and a younger half-sister
Paige Matthews . Phoebe was named after the favorite aunt of her mother.
Although Phoebe was born with the power of premonition, her maternal grandmother
Penelope Halliwell bound the powers of her granddaughters to keep
Nicholas from killing them and taking their powers.
Her father and maternal grandmother argued about Victor being merely human and thus unable to protect his own children from the supernatural. A disgruntled Victor eventually left his family. On
February 28 ,
1978 , Patricia was drowned fighting the water demon. Phoebe and her two older sisters were effectively orphaned and were raised by their maternal grandmother Penelope.
Phoebe was a good student, and once earned an award for student of the month. At the age of 10 Phoebe was transported by a spell cast by her future self to the year 2002, where she met two older versions of herself, her sister Piper, Piper's husband
Leo Wyatt , and Phoebe's future ex-husband
Cole Turner . Cole protected her from the demon Kurzon and then she visited the realm of whitelighters with Leo. After she helped the older Phoebe listen to her heart about marrying Cole, she returned to her own time, where Penny quickly erased her memory of the
Time Travel .
After completing high school, Piper and Prue moved into an apartment together in
North Beach where they stayed until their grandmother Penelope became ill and they moved back in with her. Prue became engaged to a man named Roger and she asked Piper to be her
Maid Of Honor .
Unfortunately, Rodger began to hit on Phoebe at her bartending job and sent her flowers. When Prue found out, she accused Phoebe of coming onto him. Devastated at the accusation, Phoebe left for
New York City . She also did this because she had evidence that her father, Victor, was living there. Around this time, Penny took a picture of the three. Seeing how disconnected the sisters were, Penny planned to use a potion to bind the girls' powers forever, but she died before she could use it.
Six months later, after having fallen on hard times, Phoebe returned to San Francisco and moved back in with her sisters. Prue was not at all welcoming to Phoebe, because she still believed she ruined her engagement. It was then that Phoebe discovered the
Book Of Shadows in their attic and learned that she and her sisters were members of a long line of good witches.
Phoebe and her older sisters Prue and Piper were collectivelly called the "Charmed Ones". They served as powerful good witches who protected the innocent as best as they could.
Her former boyfriend Clay came into town after helping steal a cursed urn in
Egypt . He tried to have Prue auction it off, but when she learned it was stolen, she had it removed from the auction. When the guardian of the urn attacked Clay, the sisters saved him.
Phoebe was the one who first discovered the Leo was a
Whitelighter , catching him while levitating to replace a light bulb. Leo made Phoebe swear not to tell her sisters about him. She revealed the truth to her sisters, but they thought she was just joking around.
Phoebe was once turned evil by the
Woogyman , being granted the power to make objects out of shadow, but her sisters saved her. Unhappy with her passive power, Phoebe took classes in
Self-defense .
When the sisters were attacked by the warlock Nicholas, who had a ring that made him immune to their powers, they cast a spell to travel back in time, where they were able to warn their mother Patricia and got her to unbless the ring. When they returned, they were able to vanquish Nicholas.
Phoebe briefly swapped powers with her sister Prue, and gained the ability to move objects with her mind.
When Phoebe started to get hot flashes linked to visions of men being killed, the sisters learned that a
Succubus was hunting in San Francisco. The sisters cast a spell to attract the Succubus, which turned Prue into a man ("Manny"). They were able to lure the Succubus to her doom.
Phoebe once was granted the power of flight by a
Genie , who stole the power from a Dragon warlock, but that power was returned. She developed the power to levitate, but it took some time to learn to control this power.
She started a romance with district attorney
Cole Turner , who turned out to be a half-demon named
Belthazor , sent to kill the Charmed Ones. Although Cole had started out using her to get close to the sisters, they both fell in love.
When Cole's demon half was revealed to the Charmed Ones, Phoebe helped him fake his own death and then let everyone, including her sisters, believe he was dead. Phoebe then spent time researching Cole's past, confiding only in Leo that she did not really vanquish Cole.
When Prue had split from herself during Piper and Leo's wedding, Phoebe was able to summon her back and talked her to getting back together with herself.
When the sisters discovered a
Banshee demon was killing people who were grieving, they cast a spell to track the Banshee, which turned Prue into a dog ("Prujo"). Phoebe was effected by the call of the Banshee, and turned into one herself, but was saved again by her sisters.
After the death of her sister Prue, Phoebe met a woman named
Paige Matthews at the funeral. It turned out that Paige was her younger half-sister. Phoebe and Piper helped convince Paige to join them and recreate the Charmed Ones and vanquished Prue's demonic killer, Shax.
When Phoebe swapped bodies with her half-sister Paige, she had her powers, but could not control them.
Phoebe was once shrunk to a few inches tall by Gammil's magic
Wand .
Phoebe authored a spell for vanquishing
The Source that used the power of the Halliwell's witch ancestors. She also helped
The Seer to put the Hollow back in its crypt.
While Cole started getting nightmares of becoming the new Source, Phoebe started to get a bad feeling about her coming marriage, so Piper suggested she use magic to find out what her heart felt. Phoebe cast the spell to hear her hearts desire, which ended up summoning her future and past selves. Older Phoebe refused to tell Phoebe about the events of the future for fear of changing things for the worse. Learning a young and vulnerable Phoebe was in the present, Kurzon attacked young Phoebe, but Cole protected her. Leo then took little Phoebe to the realm of Whitelighters for protection. Kurzon attacked again, wounding older Phoebe. He was vanquished by the Charmed Ones, but not before older Phoebe told Phoebe to marry Cole. This returned the older and younger Phoebes to their own time.
Cole attempted to give up his position of Source of All Evil to an evil wizard, but failed when Phoebe used her baby's powers to kill the Wizard. She then joined Cole as his queen. Once Phoebe became pregnant with the demon son of Cole Turner, she started to manifest the ability to shoot flames from her hands and to teleport great distances. Phoebe tried to live the life of evil, as a combination of
Hormone s and demonic potions made her so cranky, she ended up vanquishing a good number of Cole's demons. She tried to play both sides of good and evil, but realizing she could not, Phoebe rejoined her sisters in opposing Cole. Together they cast a spell which used the power of their ancestors to vanquish Cole.
After Cole died, he ended up in the demonic wasteland, where all demons go after being vanquished. His powers as the Source were absorbed by the creature there, but he survived by clinging to his love for Phoebe. Although he tried to get Phoebe to help bring him back to life, she refused and asked him to move on. When Cole learned he could absorb the powers of other demons when they were killed in the wasteland, he collected an impressive array of abilities and escaped it himself, just in time to save Phoebe's life.
Phoebe was transformed into a
Mermaid by a magical spell, but was turned back when she admitted her love for Cole. Phoebe told Cole that their relationship was completely over and pushed through with trying to obtain a divorce. Despite Cole's efforts to pursue her, Phoebe realized how dangerous their relationship could be and tried to move on with her life, beginning to date other men.
Phoebe was briefly transformed into a
Superhero by a witch with the power to make his drawings come to life. In this form, she had super speed, strength, and was able to stop bullets.
In one final effort to win Phoebe back, Cole cast a spell which altered reality, making it so that the Power of Three had never been reconstituted after Prue's death which meant they would never have met their long lost half-sister Paige. He was disappointed to find that in this other reality, he was trapped in a loveless marriage with Phoebe, who only remained his wife to protect Piper from being killed. By altering reality in this way, Cole resumed his former identity of Belthazor, making him vulnerable to being vanquished. Because Paige also crossed realities, she was able to unite with her sisters to vanquish Cole once and for all and reversed the effects of his spell.
When the Halliwell home started to suffer from hauntings due to all the past evil killed there, Piper summoned a
Witch Doctor to cleanse the home. Although the witch doctor did his job, he was worried about the power the sisters commanded and their susceptibility to all that evil. The council of witch doctors decided it was best for the world if they got rid of the sisters, so they cast a
Voodoo spell on them, hoping their
Obsessions would destroy them. Phoebe became obsessed with a competing advice columnist and turned him into a
Turkey , which she planned to serve for dinner. Leo was able to help the sisters overcome their obsessions and they warned the witch doctors not to come after them again.
Phoebe and Paige were trapped in Piper's spell of reliving her memories. They went through past experiences of Piper and Leo being together.
Phoebe had a romantic interest with Jason Dean, her new boss at the Bay Mirror. Though he offered to let her come back to
Hong Kong with him, she chose to stay with her sisters in San Francisco.
Leo transformed Phoebe into a love goddess to combat the
Titans , but later returned her to normal. While she was the Goddess of Love, she displayed enhanced physical abilities, the ability to teleport, near-invulnerability and the ability to make men love her.
Phoebe soon after discovered she was developing the powers of an
Empath . Because Phoebe is with Jason and is sensing Jason's desires when Gith creates her alternate world, the world is based on Jason's desires rather than her own. In Jason's ideal world, Phoebe is a popular talk show host and he has bought her a penthouse to live in. But his desires soon lead to his destruction when one of Phoebe's fans tries to shoot her and Jason takes the bullet to protect Phoebe. Paige and Phoebe managed to return to their own reality, with Piper and her son
Wyatt Halliwell as well, as they vanquished Gith.
During a dinner party that Paige arranged as an opportunity for Phoebe to tell Jason that she is a witch, her own lover Richard Montana obsessed about
Karma , convinced that after all the evil his family has caused, he was being haunted by the entire family's bad karma.
When Phoebe, Paige, and Piper orbed back from the hive, Jason cought them. After being exposed to Phoebe's true nature, and recovering from a temporary loss of consciousness, Jason reeled at the idea of magic and distanced himself from Phoebe, saying that he needed to concentrate on a merger. Richard read a spell that he hope would cleanse his karma, but the spell accidentally send the karma of
Mata Hari , a spy/dancer who was killed by a firing squad during
World War I , into Phoebe's body, who happened to arrive back at the manor at the exact moment Richard cast the spell.
Controlled by Mata Hari's impulses, Phoebe attempted to win Jason back, but he refused her. Angered, Phoebe arrived at Jason's merger and put a
Curse on it, which brought
Escargot and
Frog Legs to life, casting a blight on Jason's reputation. When several swarm demons attacked the manor, Phoebe helped the drones defeat her sisters and the demons kidnapped her. At the hive, she negotiated with the Swarm King, convincing him that the best way to kill the Charmed Ones was to weaken their karma by having a Charmed One kill an innocent – Jason.
Phoebe, with the help of a few swarm demons, kidnapped Jason and took him back to the hive, where she planned to put him to death by a firing squad of demons. But Jason remembered the potion Richard gave him and freed Phoebe. Jason gained some perspective on Phoebe being a witch. However, both Phoebe and Jason were then aware of the problems in their relationship and decided to take a break.
Phoebe followed a
Wolf that she saw in the hallway of the Magic School. The wolf lead Phoebe to Enola the
Shaman , a student at the school, who send Phoebe on a
Vision Quest to help her see her own future more clearly. On her quest, Phoebe finally managed to reach the portal that took her to the future. There she saw Piper, an older Wyatt, and a younger boy that turns out to be Piper's second son. Paige had become a teacher at the school, Phoebe is pregnant with a little girl, and they are living a life without demons. Wyatt's brother approaches her, saying, "Aunt Phoebe, we need your help," and she is returned to the present to hear Chris asking, "Phoebe, can you help us?" Phoebe becomes the first one to know that
Chris Perry is actually
Chris Halliwell , her nephew and Piper and Leo's second son.
Chris tried to enlist Phoebe's help to get his parents back together, but Phoebe felt that meddling with Piper and Leo's relationship would be wrong. As Chris tried to persuade his aunt to join his cause, Phoebe gets a premonition and they go to a
Middle East ern desert where they rescue a female genie named Jinny from her demonic master. Jinny says that she wrote to Phoebe because her former master, Bosk, is trying to raise an ancient demonic city – the lost city of Zanbar – and she thought that if Phoebe became her master, Phoebe would wish her free so that Bosk could not use her to re-erect the city.
Bosk soon enough attacked the manor, and because of his protective amulet that blocked her vanquishing potion, Phoebe wished Jinny free. Apparently, Jinny was actually a demon, and she could only be freed only at the expense of the one who freed her, so now Phoebe would have to pay the price: she had become a genie herself with Chris as her new master. Chris accidentally wished for Leo to get over his issues with Chris and Phoebe, granting Chris' inadvertent wish, making Leo become very friendly toward Chris. Chris decided to take advantage of the situation and wished for Piper and Leo to sleep together and it worked, just not as he planned: Piper and Leo fall asleep on the floor. Richard takes the genie bottle, with Phoebe in it, attempts to use it to have Paige love him forever. To make up for his mistake, Richard wishes Phoebe free, and Phoebe and Paige manage to get Jinny back in the bottle.
Since Phoebe decided to take Paige to her high school reunion, Paige attempted to educate herself on the past life of her older sibling by reading Phoebe's old yearbook. Phoebe looked over old signatures and read a poem that turns out to be a spell, flashing Phoebe back to her rebellious teenage self. At the reunion, Phoebe saw members of her old gang: Ramona has not changed much, still latching on to other people for popularity: Todd, her old boyfriend, was married by that time but still seemed to have a thing for Phoebe; Rick, the old gang leader, was in jail for robbing a liquor store. Paula, Todd's wife, calls Phoebe by her high-school nickname "Freebie" out of spite and the spell kicked in, causing her to flash to her old self, so Paige and Phoebe have to return home as soon as possible.
Todd called Phoebe to apologize for Paula's behavior and confessed the only reason he came to the reunion was to see her. Paula grabbed Todd's phone away and called Phoebe the magic word, causing Phoebe to change into Teen Phoebe and return to the reunion. There Phoebe caused trouble, casting a spell to make everyone act like seniors again. Looking for her sister, Paige returned to the reunion, so Phoebe leaves with Todd and Ramona by stealing a police car.
They visited Rick in jail and after learning that Phoebe was a witch Rick made her use her powers to bust him out of jail. He decided he wanted to use her powers to rob an armored car. When everyone refused to follow his plan, Rick turned violent. He punched Todd and consequently Phoebe came to her senses and turned back into her normal self. Paige and Piper summoned her to the manor, sending her back at her request to help her friends, but in her absence Rick had hidden Ramona and refused to tell Phoebe where she was until after she helped him rob the truck.
During the robbery, Phoebe used a spell to start a fire as a diversion and while Rick was busy in the truck, she used another spell to make Rick hear police sirens. Afraid of the police, Rick left the scene of the crime and dragged Phoebe back to the manor. Using Phoebe as a
Hostage , Rick insisted that Paige should use a spell to give him a new appearance and Phoebe suggested that she uses their nephew for inspiration. Paige gives Rick Chris' appearance, which attracts a group of Scabbar demons who had been after Chris and, thinking he is Chris, the Scabbar demons kill Rick.
Phoebe starts using her premonitions to find herself her future husband.
When the Charmed Ones went on to trail
Barbas , the demon admitted to a plan to trick them out of their powers, but argued that he still had a point – the Charmed Ones are risky with their magic. He turns the bulk of his accusation against Phoebe, who has been using potions to force premonitions recently, which Paige thought might have led to Inspector Sheridan catching them. The Tribunal reversed their decision to kill their ally
Darryl Morris , but they decided Phoebe must suffer the consequences for using her powers for personal gain, so she lost her powers of premonitions, levitation, and empathy. This was a "temporary" punishment and she had the possibility of earning them back if she used her magic correctly.
Phoebe killed demons using the Power-Sucking Athame and stole their powers to become all-powerful, and later Paige used the Athame to stab her, and got the powers out of her.
Phoebe and Paige traveled to the
Parallel Universe and met their evil duplicates, teaming up with them to defeat Gideon and save their nephews Chris and Wyatt.
Phoebe decided to take a sabbatical from work. Her editor Elise Rothman, instead of just rerunning Phoebe's column for two months, hired a
Ghostwriter , Leslie St. Claire. Phoebe later fell in love with him, though she did not want her column to be written by a male writer. Phoebe eventually got her column back as well her power of premonitions.
Phoebe had befriended Kira the
Seer , as Kira showed her her future daughter, thanks to the Avatars. Only a short time before she was going to help Kira lead a normal, mortal life, she was vanquished.
Phoebe has gained a romantic interest in the new literature teacher at Magic School,
Drake . Unfortunately his only problem was that he was destined to die after two weeks, but he managed to fulfill his mission; he was sent by none other than Cole, to restore Phoebe's faith in love...
Phoebe and her sisters next destroyed Zanku and the Nexus. Then both normal people and the demons thought them dead. This was their chance to finally get a normal life. Phoebe's new alias was Julie Bennet and everyone else but her loved ones could only see her "new look".
Phoebe got her old job back and was dating a guy named Dex Lawson, who she had a premontion of marrying him. She soon returned to her real name and old life. She did marry Dex while under a spell from her ward
Billie Jenkins . The marriage was annuled since both participants were not in their right state of mind. Phoebe was no longer romancing Dex.
Phoebe lost her faith in her gift until she had a premontion of the future. She was talking to her older self 6 years from now. She was still supposed to have a daughter. The Angel of Destiny told the Charmed Ones that they had another battle to fight. If they won, Leo could come back.
Phoebe soon moved out of the manor. She got her own apartment in the city. Phoebe will marry Coop the Cupid in the series finale. She will also still have her child, destined to her. She also might get her powers, levitation and empathy back later in the future.
