Harriet
Harriet "Harry" Doyle was the ex-wife of Allen Francis Doyle and an ethnodemonologist. She was portrayed by Kristin Dattilo.
Biography
Harriet and Doyle married when they were twenty, but barely a year later, just as they were discussing having children, Doyle's previously unknown Brachen demon heritage manifested itself. Although Harry eventually came to accept it after the initial shock, enjoying the possibilities it created for them, Doyle was unable to accept his demon side or to believe that Harry truly did so, and the two subsequently drifted apart. For her part, Harry was fascinated to learn of the existence of demons and became an ethnodemonologist, someone who studies demonic cultures. She eventually tracked Doyle down again when she became engaged to Richard Howard Straley, an Ano-Movic Demon. Doyle eventually agreed to sign the divorce papers after Angel confirmed that Ano-Movics were non-violent. Harry subsequently invited Cordelia Chase to her bachelorette party, reasoning that Cordelia was the only woman she'd met recently under three hundred, but she and Cordelia left the party when a conversation Angel had overheard at the bachelor party revealed that Richard intended to eat Doyle's brains as part of a ritual to bless their marriage - an obscure ritual, seldom invoked because it had been a long time since anyone in his clan married a divorcee, but one his family were absolutely insistent on. Unable to go through with the wedding, Harry called the engagement off.
Behind the scenes
Harry also appeared in the novel Soul Trade, set after the end of her relationship with Richard, when Angel asks Doyle to talk to Harry for information on the Kurgarru, a race of demons who eat the souls of others (Angel's only other option for information being Giles, who Angel is naturally reluctant to contact). She also appears in the comic Earthly Possessions- set after Doyle's death-, when Angel and Cordelia contact her to help exorcise a group of vapour demons that have been summoned by renegade priest Father Noe, later advising Angel not to allow Doyle's death to prompt him to cut ties with his other allies.