Kendra Young

Kendra is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon and introduced by Marti Noxon for the TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character is portrayed by Bianca Lawson. Eight years after the character's creation, Whedon granted her the surname Young for a role-playing game and subsequent material. Kendra is a Slayer: a young girl endowed with supernatural abilities and destined to battle evil creatures such as vampires and demons. Born in a... more

Kendra is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon and introduced by Marti Noxon for the TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character is portrayed by Bianca Lawson. Eight years after the character's creation, Whedon granted her the surname Young for a role-playing game and subsequent material. Kendra is a Slayer: a young girl endowed with supernatural abilities and destined to battle evil creatures such as vampires and demons. Born in another country (never mentioned, but implied to be Jamaica, re. "Accent"), her people apparently know about Slayers and consider them highly important, so much so that her parents gave her up for Slayer training at a very early age. Kendra Young did not know her own surname as she studied under her Watcher, Sam Zabuto. She is called when Buffy Summers dies at the hands of The Master in 1997; though Xander manages to revive her, Buffy's death nevertheless activates a second Slayer, causing two to exist. Kendra is fully versed in the Slayer... less