Juliet Landau

Juliet Rose Landau is an American actress best known for co-starring as Loretta King Hadlerin Tim Burton's Ed Wood and for portraying Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and spin offshow Angel (the latter appearance earning her a Saturn Award nomination). She has appeared in a diverse range of roles. She is active in film, television and theater.

Personal life

Landau was born in Los Angeles to parents Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. She was a professional ballerina. Her mentor was the late actress, Susan Peretz. Juliet is a member of TheActors Studio and as recently as 2008 was being mentored by Mike Medavoy.

Career

She co-starred in Ed Wood as Loretta King and starred opposite Whoopi Goldberg in New Line Cinema's Theodore Rex. She played the role of Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, appearing on Buffy and spin off show Angel over the course of six seasons. Steve Vinberg of The New York Times hailed "The wildly gifted Juliet Landau plays Drusilla like an acid-addled cross betweenOphelia and Cassandra." 

Lead roles in Independents include: The Yellow Wallpaper, Darkness Visible ^{[disambiguation needed]}, Hack, Toolbox Murders, Repossessed,Carlo's Wake, Life Among the Cannibals, Ravager, Direct Hit, Citizens and a co-starring turn in Henry Jaglom's Going Shopping.

TV guest appearances include: Millennium, La Femme Nikita, Strong Medicine and a starring role in the Lifetime movie Fatal Reunion. She just completed a project for HBO directed by Jake Scott. She used her skill with dialects by lending her voice to various characters on the popular animated series Justice League Unlimited and Ben 10 as well as the animated movie Green Lantern: First Flight. She has also provided her voice for both BioShock video games.

Landau has received outstanding reviews for her work in the theater. Lead roles include Awake and Sing at The Pittsburgh Public Theater, the world premiere of Failure of Nerve, Uncommon Women and Others, The Pushcart Peddlers, Billy Irish, We're Talking Today Here, the musical How To Steal An Election, the West Coast premiere of Irish Coffee and the world premiere of Murray Shisgal's musical The Songs Of War. She played Natasha in a reading of The Three Sisters that Al Pacino put together at The Actors Studio.

Her first work as director was Take Flight, a short documentary film about Gary Oldman. It is about Oldman's creative process. He has said, "Juliet Landau is an exceptional talent! I entrusted Juliet to make a documentary film about me and I am thrilled with the results! Take Flightis a special film that shows me in a very different light. I will work with Juliet again without hesitation."^[1] She has written the short film, It's Raining Cats and Cats and adapted Andrew Prine's play Cissy into a short as well.^[4] She will helm these projects. She portrayed Claire in the British horror film Haunted Echoes, who was directed by Harry Bromley Davenport.

In 2009 Juliet Landau co-wrote two issues of the Angel comic book series for IDW Publishing, in collaboration with Brian Lynch. The issues (#24 and #25 of the series, appearing in August and September 2009) feature Drusilla, the character she played on Buffy the Vampire Slayerand Angel. In addition to writing, she contributed numerous ideas and references for both the cover and interior art of the issues. She has stated that she would like to write more comics set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe.

Filmography

• Naught for Hire (web series) (2010, pre-production) as Precious
• It's Raining Cats and Cats (2009, pre-production) as 7 characters
• Material Lies (2009, pre-production) as Sarah
• Land of Canaan (2009, pre-production) as Elizabeth
• Monster Mutt (2009) as Nataliya
• Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) as Labella
• Take Flight: Gary Oldman Directs Chutzpah (2008) as Director
• "Hero" (2008 Godhead music video) as co-director and appears in with lead singer, Jason Miller
• Haunted Echoes (aka: Darkness Visible) (2008) as Claire
• Ben 10: Alien Force (2008) as Helen, Natalie and Anodite Verdona
• The Yellow Wallpaper (2008) as Charlotte
• Hack! (2007) as Mary
• Bioshock (2007) as Little Sisters
• Justice League Unlimited (2005–2006) as Tala, Plastique, Bernadeth and Rama Kushna
• Going Shopping (2005) as Isabella
• Fatal Reunion (2005 TV movie) as Lisa Calders
• Angel (2000–2004) as Drusilla
• Strong Medicine - Episode "Seize the Day" (2003) as Lorraine
• Toolbox Murders (2004) as Julia Cunningham
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series) (1997–2003) as Drusilla
• Repossessed (2002) as Alison Labatte
• Citizens (TV series) (2002) as Zoey
• Freedom Park (2001) as ?
• La Femme Nikita - Episode "Before I Sleep" (1999) as Sarah Gerrard and Jan Baylin
• Millennium - Episode "Forcing the End" (1999) as Jeanie Bronstein
• Carlo's Wake (1999) as Anna Torello
• Ravager (1997) as Sarra
• Life Among the Cannibals (1996) as Rachael
• Theodore Rex (1995) as Dr. Veronica Shade
• Direct Hit (1994) as Shelly
• Ed Wood (1994) as Loretta King
• Neon City (1992) as Twink
• Parker Lewis Can't Lose (TV series- Episode "Dance of Romance") as Lucinda
• The Grifters as Young Lilly
• Pump Up the Volume (scenes deleted) as Joni

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