10 Best Performances In Angel

10. Glenn Quinn - Allen Francis Doyle

Oh, Doyle. It's a testament to the talent and sheer likeability of the gone-too-soon Glenn Quinn that Doyle holds such a soft spot for Buffyverse fans. Although he's only around for the show's first nine episodes, the amount of backstory and characterisation we get to see from Doyle is staggering and remains one of Season One's biggest triumphs.

Starting the show off as the big plot driver, a demon who comes to Angel to aid him in his redemption, Doyle quickly proves to be more than just a living piece of exposition. Rather, he is a funny, dependable, complicated and heroic man whose secret past drives him even before we know anything about where he came from.

His chemistry with both Angel and Cordelia Chase is a season high point, and his death, which was brilliantly executed and played to perfection by Quinn, is the first real indication of how much darker the show was going to be from its original series.

Quinn's untimely death a few years after his final appearance only makes his performance more compelling and lovable on show re-watches, and you can't help but wonder where a character with such a rich history and complicated story would have been had he lived to see the show's later seasons.