She made her first appearance on Buffy in the fifth season episode No Place Like Home in a scene where Glory dukes it out with our heroine, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Geller). Graduating from NYU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, the actress began honing her craft onstage with performances in such productions as Helen Keller, Light Up The Sky and Beyond Therapy. That’s when I really fell in love with theatre as an art form.” So I enrolled at NYU, which has a fabulous theatre department, and began studying there. “Eventually I came to the realization that I would probably be happier as an actress rather than a dancer. “Once I graduated high school and began applying to colleges, I had to make a decision one way or the other,” she notes. Naturally, I then assumed that would happen every time, and as we all know that’s not the case,” chuckles the actress.īorn in Atlanta, Georgia and brought up from the age of four in Delaware, Ohio, Kramer planned from a young age to pursue an artistic career, but teetered between actor and dancer. ![]() It was one of the only times I’ve been told more or less on the spot that I was getting the job, which was pretty amazing. The two of us stood side-by-side, they nodded their heads and said, ’Yes, this will work, we can do this,’ and Charlie and I ended up being hired. He, of course, was the actor who wound up playing Ben, Glory’s manly half. “A few days later I went back and Charlie Weber was there as well. During my initial audition I met Joss Whedon for the first time and, fortunately, he responded to what I did, so my agent received a call asking me to return for a second audition. I read those over, and I had a general idea of what the show was like in that it had to do with vampires, so I thought I’d take a few chances with the material. “Like any other actor I got a call that they were casting the role on Buffy, but at the time they didn’t really have a name for the character or even a set script. “Prior to this I’d done one pilot, but this was my first real TV experience,” says Kramer. Poor Glory’s misfortune was, in fact, a blessing in disguise for actress Clare Kramer, who made her small screen debut playing the fallen god. Despite being the most powerful of the threesome, she lost against their combined abilities and was banished into the earthly dimension, where she was forced to share a body with a child named Ben. Also known as The Beast, The Abomination and That Which Cannot Be Named, Glory was one of three gods who ruled over a hell dimension, until her fellow deities declared war against her. ![]() In season five of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Scooby Gang crossed paths with another in a long and nasty line of the program’s demonic baddies, Glorificus, or Glory. In today's Sci-Fi Blast From The Past, actress Clare Kramer talks about playing the demon Glorificus a.k.a.
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