David Boreanaz
I Sold Food Door-To-Door
(Article from Take 5 magazine March 8, 2000)

The tall, dark and handsome star, first of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and now the new spin-off, Angel, admits that, when he moved to Los Angeles after studying film at New York's Ithaca College, he hoped to become a movie-maker.

But then David had a change of heart and decided he wanted to work in front of the camera.  So for five years, he worked in a string of low-paid jobs to help pay his way while he pursued a passion for acting.

He handed out towels at a gym, sold gourmet food door-to-door, and acted at small theatres and in a few commercials.  Finally, he got his break through walking his dog Bertha Blue.  David was walking Bertha one day when a talent agent approached him and asked if he was an actor.  The agent then offered to represent him.  "I'd been looking for a manager for a while so I was happy to talk to him.  It was a fate thing."

His new agent got him some small TV and film roles.  Then he auditioned for Buffy and was snapped up for the role of the brooding vampire, Angel.  But although his lingering on-screen romance with Buffy was basically doomed from the start - after all, she's a vampire slayer and he's a 244-year-old vampire - David was such a hit with the fans that he was eventually given his own show.

In Angel, he splits from Buffy and Sunnydale to lead to LA, the City of Angels, to save lost souls.  But he hasn't lost touch with his Buffy co-stars altogether.  Also featuring in Angel is former Buffy regular, Charisma Carpenter, who plays actress-wannabe Cordelia - and, off-screen, David's reported to be romancing Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar.  The couple have been seen together constantly since David and his Irish-born wife, Ingrid Quinn, divorced last year after two years of marriage.

Despite the divorce, David says he's been lucky in love since his teens. "I didn't get along with the girl I took to my senior prom," he says. "So I ended up dropping her home and going our with the woman who had driven our limo. "I was 17 and she was in her 20s.  It was a teenage boy's fantasy come true!"

Written by Drew Mackenzie