Winifred "Fred" Burkle was a physics student, member of Angel Investigations, and later the head of Wolfram & Hart's Practical Science Department.
Born in Texas, Fred moved to Los Angeles to attend graduate school at UCLA until one fateful day when her jealous physics professor, Oliver Seidel, used dark magic to banish her to the dimension of Pylea, where she spent five years escaping enslavement; the time there took a serious toll on Fred's sanity. In 2001, Fred was finally saved and returned to Earth when the vampire Angel and his friends arrived in Pylea and liberated it from the control of the Covenant of Trombli. Despite her friends' best efforts, Fred perished and her body was taken over by Illyria itself. Though her soul was believed completely destroyed in the process, Illyria retained Fred's memories and some of her emotions and personality traits.
However, after Illyria's death and the reversal of the end of magic, Fred was resurrected in London, and Fred and IIlyria shared the same body.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Scientific expertise
- Programming expert
- Multilingualism
- Combat prowess
- Skilled survivalist
Dual personality[]
Following her resurrection, Fred acquired a "Jekyll-and-Hyde"-esque dynamic with Illyria.[citation needed]
- Persona swapping
- Suspended aging
Trivia[]
- She was portrayed by Amy Acker.
- Felicia Day (Violet) auditioned for the role of Fred.