Nicholas Brendon
Nicholas Brendon was born the 12 of April of 1971 in Granada Hill, San Fernando Villay, in Los Angeles, along with its twin brother Kelly Donovan; it has in addition two smaller brothers. When their parents, Bob and Kathy, divorced, their mother became agent of theater. He attended his studies in Canyons, the locality of Santa Clarita. He decided to dedicate itself to act when a serious injury in its arm prevented him to become professional player of baseball, but had tartamudez problems. Before obtaining the paper of Xander he had thirteen works of which he was dismissed. He had begun from zero making small announcements and also worked of production assistant. To the being dismissed of this position, it found to which wanted to photograph to him, which would help him to work in series. To the twenty-five years, after to have solved its problem of tartamudez, appeared to castings of Joss Whedon to work in the series where it would occur to know, Buffy the cazavampiros. It obtained the paper of Xander Harris. Also it dedicates to his efforts to the organization “Stuttering Foundation of America.
In 2001, Brendon married actress Tressa DiFiglia. The couple divorced in 2007.
On April 25, 2004, at a Buffy fanconvention in Cleveland, Ohio, he announced that he had voluntarily entered rehab for alcoholism.
Brendon has played a major part in the Stuttering Foundation of America. He was the first person to serve the role of honorary chairperson of the Stuttering Foundation of America’s Stuttering Awareness Week for three consecutive years, from 2000 to 2003.
Brendon has an identical twin brother, Kelly Donovan, the elder by three minutes, who served as his occasional stand-in on Buffy. Kelly played the part of Xander’s double in the episode “The Replacement”when the two Xanders were on the screen at the same time.
When Nicholas fell sick with pneumonia, Kelly filled in for him as Xander, and in most of Xander’s fight scenes in the episode “Intervention”, Kelly was filling the role.
