An attractive bleached blond California native, actor James Marsters honed his craft onstage, training and acting in productions in New York, Chicago and Seattle before hitting Hollywood in the mid-1990s and subsequently landing the breakthrough role of Spike in the popular supernatural series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". The son of a social worker and former minister, Marsters pursued an acting career after high school, and attended nearby Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts as well as NYC's prestigious Juilliard. Rather than stay in NYC, Marsters made the move to Chicago, where he
