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Spike, sired by Drusilla in the late 1800's, got his nickname due to his penchant for torturing victims with railroad spikes. His real name was William, and he was a sensitive, aspiring poet, who lived with his mother before Dru took him away from all that. He's also known as William the Bloody, but not for the reasons you might think; the moniker of 'the Bloody' came not from dripping blood, but from his 'bloody awful poetry'.  Drusilla was the first great love of his rather long life, but she left him.  Spike has killed two Slayers, a remarkable feat for a relatively young vampire, but was neutered when he came back to Sunnydale in S4, at which point Harmony [Cordelia's friend, who'd been 'vamped' when Sunnydale High exploded on graduation day in S3] was with him briefly as his girlfriend. The Initiative implanted a chip in his head, which made him incapable of harming humans without causing himself excruciating pain.  After this, he discovered he was totally enamoured of Buffy, which drove him somewhat bonkers, but between the chip and his feelings for Buffy, he started to become a peripheral part of the Scooby gang, eventually becoming an important member; Buffy has made clear many times that the two most powerful components of the group are Willow and Spike.  Buffy and Spike had a brief, initially secret -blazing hot and somewhat violent- physical relationship, until she got a bad case of the guilts.  After she broke it off, he tried to have sex with her, winding up almost raping her.  Spike knew he'd gone too far, and traveled to Africa to undergo mystical, painfully difficult rituals, and wound up getting a soul in return.  He thought this would change Buffy's feelings for him.  It didn't provide any miraculous, overnight change, although he's become more trusted by the Slayer, and she has, several times, demonstrated her unwillingness to let him out of her life.

James Marsters is Spike

James Marsters was born on August 20th in 1962, in Greenville, California, growing up in Modesto, CA. [Note: Obviously the accent he uses as Spike, while really good, is fake - can you imagine how hard it must be to stay that much in character? :) ]  He has one brother and one sister, and graduated from Davis High School. James attended Julliard in New York City, the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, and the American Conservatory Theatre. He spent about 10 years doing stage work and performed in various plays in New York, Chicago, and Seattle before moving to Los Angeles in order to pursue a career in film and television acting. James was originally only hired for a few episodes of Buffy, but quickly became a fan favorite, appearing many times in the first three season, and becoming a regular since the fourth.  In addition to his role as Spike, James has appeared on several other television shows, like Northern Exposure, Millennium, Strange Frequency, and Andromeda, as well as a couple of guest appearances on Angel as Spike, and in films, including a role in the 1999 remake of "The House On Haunted Hill," in the '98 indie "Winding Roads" and 2002's "Chance".  James has appeared in several plays, enjoys working on stage, and is part of a band called Ghost of the Robot. You can click here for the official site; they do have CD's available for sale. The scar on his left eyebrow is not a fake, it's apparently from an attempted mugging in Queens, New York.  James is left-handed, a natural brunette [dying his hair almost white for his role as Spike], and is either 5'10" or 11".  Some sources indicate that James is divorced and has one son, but he is currently single, and lives in LA.

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