Her earliest credited roles come from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, American Dreams, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Proud Family. By 2002, however, Ashanti was fully dialed into her debut album ...

as one of the many drunken college kids Buffy meets. In season 7, episode 14 entitled First Date, Xander’s beautiful but suspicious new girlfriend Lissa is played by R&B star Ashanti.