Played by Amber Benson

INFORMATION

Tara Maclay was originally a shy, unconfident Wicca who was part of the U.C. Sunnydale Wicca Group. In a group of ‘Wanna-Blessed-Bes,’ Willow noticed the girl, and recognising the magic inside of Willow, Tara sought her out. Over the months that followed, the two girls honed their magicks together and became not only friends, but lovers. Becoming a firm and steady member of the core Scooby Gang, Tara became concerned when Willow began to depend on her magical abilities, and feeling that there was no alternative, left Willow for several months. Only after becoming friends again did Tara reinitiate the relationship, which was cut tragically short when Warren Mears accidentally fired a bullet through the Summers’ home’s upper windows and it hit Tara in the heart, killing her instantly.

APPEARANCES: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON FOUR

• Hush
• A New Man
• The I in Team
• Goodbye Iowa
• This Year’s Girl
• Who Are You
• Superstar
• Where the Wild Things Are
• New Moon Rising
• The Yoko Factor
• Primeval
• Restless

APPEARANCES: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON FIVE

• Buffy vs. Dracula
• Real Me
• Out of My Mind
• Family
• Shadow
• Listening to Fear
• Triangle
• Checkpoint
• Blood Ties
• Crush
• I Was Made to Love You
• The Body
• Forever
• Intervention
• Tough Love
• Spiral
• The Weight of the World
• The Gift

APPEARANCES: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON SIX

• Bargaining (Part 1)
• Bargaining (Part 2)
• Afterlife
• Flooded
• Life Serial
• All the Way
• Once More, With Feeling
• Tabula Rasa
• Smashed
• Wrecked
• Dead Things
• Older and Far Away
• Hell’s Bells
• Normal Again
• Entropy
• Seeing Red [regular cast member, listed on the opening titles for this episode only]
• Villains