Jenny Calendar

Jenny Calendar is a fictional character in the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003). Played by Robia LaMorte, Jenny is the computer teacher at Sunnydale High School. The premise of the series is that a teenage girl, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), is given superhuman powers through mystical forces to defeat vampires and other evils in the fictional town of Sunnydale. Unlike the long line of Slayers before her, Buffy accomplishes this with the help of her friends (dubbed the Scooby Gang), including her Watcher, Giles, who is also the school librarian. Buffy also has an ally in Angel, a unique vampire who had his soul restored to him a century ago by Jenny's ancestors after torturing and killing one of their most beloved young women. They cursed him in this manner to make him suffer remorse for all eternity. Angel works closely with Buffy both to assuage his ongoing pangs of conscience as a result of his murderous past, and because he is in love with her. Unbeknownst to Buffy or anyone else, Jenny Calendar has been sent to Sunnydale to keep an eye on Angel.

In the first two seasons of the series, Jenny Calendar is Giles' primary romantic interest. She serves to counter his technophobia and is a rare adult female role model for the young women in Buffy's circle. During the second season her true identity is revealed: she is Janna Kalderash, a member of the Gypsy tribe that cursed Angel. In response to an elder's visions that Angel is suffering less due to his growing romance with Buffy, Jenny is instructed to impede their relationship. As a result of events during the second season storylines, Angel loses his soul and becomes evil, reverting to his former ways of torturing and killing, eventually making Jenny his victim. Among the main cast, she is the series' first recurring character to die, and the manner of her death is noted for its disturbing effect on audiences.