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Piper Halliwell is a fictional character from the WB fantasy comedy-drama series Charmed and its subsequent spin-offs. The character is portrayed by actress Holly Marie Combs, and appeared in every episode of Charmed from its 1998 pilot episode to its 2006 series finale. Piper was conceived and developed by Charmed creator Constance M. Burge as the middle of three sisters, until the death of elder sister Prue Halliwell (Shannen Doherty) at the end of the third season. After the discovery of her long-lost half-sister, Paige Matthews (Rose McGowan), Piper becomes the eldest of three sisters for the remainder of the series' run.

In Charmed, Piper is one of the show's titular characters, the prophesied Charmed Ones, powerful good witches who fight against the forces of evil. Her storylines revolve around her attempts towards a normal life despite her supernatural abilities, overcoming obstacles in her romantic relationship with guardian angel Leo Wyatt (Brian Krause), and saving their eldest son Wyatt from becoming evil. Piper began the series with the ability to place objects and individuals in stasis, but later developed the power to incite molecular combustion as the series progressed. After the series' eight season run, Charmed comic books are set to publish from 2010, following Piper's life subsequent to the television series.

Combs was cast as Piper after initially auditioning for the role of Prue. Outside of the television series, the character has appeared in spin-off material, including the novel series, the video game, and the board games. For her role as Piper, Combs has won a Best Lead Actress in a Science Fiction Series award in the 2003 RATTY Awards, and a Best Television Actress award in the 2005 Series Magazine Awards. She has also been nominated for a further three RATTY Awards. In 2008, AOL Television named Piper the third greatest fictional witch in television history after Samantha Stevens from Bewitched and Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In the first season of Charmed (1998–9), Piper discovers she is a Charmed One in series premiere "Something Wicca This Way Comes" when her sister Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) reads a spell in a magical Book of Shadows in their attic, awakening the powers they and their sister Prue (Shannen Doherty) were born with; Piper's main magical ability is the power to freeze things. From this point on, Piper and her sisters become a target to evil warlocks and to demons who wish either to assassinate them or acquire their abilities; as such, Piper discovers that her boyfriend, Jeremy, (Eric Scott Woods) is in fact a warlock when he seizes upon the opportunity to kill her, forcing she and her sisters to vanquish him. Piper later discovers that the handyman at their family home, Leo Wyatt (Brian Krause), with whom she has fallen in love, is in fact her Whitelighter (a witch's guardian angel) and that their love is forbidden. In "That '70s Episode", the sisters travel back in time to discover the reasons behind their mother Patty (Finola Hughes) and their Grams (Jennifer Rhodes) binding their powers at a young age. It is only in the season finale that the sisters come under a direct attack from an assassin sent by the Source of All Evil and Tempus (David Carradine), a time-manipulating demon. In the second season (1999–2000), the sisters further their resolve against evil. Piper glimpses her future in "Morality Bites" and discovers she is mother to a little girl and has been married to Leo, and in "P3 H20" confronts the demon that killed her mother, and learns of her mother's affair with Whitelighter Sam (Scott Jaeck), paralleling her own with Leo. Leo breaks the rules to use his powers to heal Piper from a deadly virus in "Awakened", though giving up on Leo she begins a romantic relationship with her neighbor, Dan (Gregory Vaughan). By the season's end, she has chosen Leo over Dan in spite of the rules of his superiors, the Elders and ascends with him to the Heavens to see his world in the second season finale.

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