The Spider Demon (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) was a villainess from the TV series Charmed, appearing in Season Six's (2004) episode "Spin City" (airdate April 18, 2004).
According to lore, the Spider Demon emerges every 100 years to feed on the magic of the most powerful beings she could detect. She would preserve the victims in a cocoon of webs until she was hungry enough to drain their powers, and thus their life.
We first see the Spider Demon at a hospital where she went after Paige Matthews and Piper Halliwell, while managing to bite Chris Halliwell, which put him under her control.
The Spider Demon returned to her lair, where she boasted to Rathmere, an acient and powerful wizard that she had been feeding on, that she had found a powerful Whitelighter (Chris) while out on her hunt. She also mentioned that her next victim would be Piper.
She later invaded the Halliwell household and trapped Piper in a cocoon, while the mesmerized Chris actually subdued Paige and Phoebe Halliwell. The Spider Demon escaped by morphing into an actual spider, dodging Paige's vanquishing potion. After Chris trapped Phoebe and Paige in separat cocoons later on, he returned to the Spider Demon, who began feeding on Piper, as well as Baby Chris in her womb, which weakened Chris. Her dining is interrupted by the remaning Halliwells, who bring her out of her lair.
The Spider Demon is distracted by a Fairy floating over her face. Phoebe then kicked her to the ground, where a Wood Nymph attempt to vanquish her with a potion. However, the throw was off, and the Demon again morphed into a spider. This turns out to be her undoing, as she is squashed her to death by an Ogre. With her death, the webs encasing Piper were removed and the barrier blocking the entrance to her lair disppeared, allowing Leo to get inside and rescue Piper.
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- Jodi Lyn O'Keefe is arguably most famous for portraying bully Taylor Vaughan in the 1999 teen movie She's All That and Gretchen Morgan from Prison Break.
- Jodi Lyn O'Keefe's other villainous roles include serial killer Debbie Strand in Devil in the Flesh 2, vampiress Layla Simmons from Vampires: Out For Blood, tragic alternate reality villainess Gina Wright in A Nanny's Revenge, murderous femme fatale Lisa from The Finder, Satan worshipper Isabella from Two and a Half Men, the evil Lucy Lafleur on Eve, and bully Candace Aimes from Tru Calling.
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