Juliet Landau

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Juliet Landau
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Born
Juliet Rose Landau

(1965-03-30) March 30, 1965 (age 59)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupations
  • Actress
  • director
  • producer
  • ballerina
Years active1990–present
SpouseDeverill Weekes
Parent(s) Martin Landau
Barbara Bain
Relatives Susan Landau Finch (sister)
Website julietlandau.com

Juliet Rose Landau (born March 30, 1965) [1] [2] [3] [4] is an American actress, director, producer, and ballerina best known for her role as Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff show Angel , the latter appearance earning her a Saturn Award nomination. She is also known for co-starring as Loretta King in Tim Burton's Ed Wood .

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Early life

Landau was born in Los Angeles to actor parents Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. [5] Both her parents were Jewish. [6] [7] Her older sister is film producer Susan Landau Finch. [8] She spent her early childhood in West Los Angeles. [9] Landau is a former professional ballerina. [10]

Career

Landau starred in some independent films including Where the Road Runs Out , Fairfield, Monster Mutt , Citizens, Dark Hearts, The Yellow Wallpaper , Hack! , Toolbox Murders , Repossessed, Carlo's Wake, Life Among the Cannibals, Ravager , Direct Hit , and co-starred in Henry Jaglom's Going Shopping . She also starred in the Lifetime movie Fatal Reunion

Landau guest starred in television shows Criminal Minds , Millennium , La Femme Nikita and Strong Medicine. She voiced various characters in the animated series Justice League Unlimited and Ben 10 as well as the animated film Green Lantern: First Flight . She has also voiced characters of the BioShock video games.

Landau's theater roles include Awake and Sing at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, the world premiere of Failure of Nerve, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, A Streetcar Named Desire , Uncommon Women and Others , The Pushcart Peddlers, Billy Irish, We're Talking Today Here, the musical How To Steal An Election, Irish Coffee and the world premiere of musical The Songs of War. She played Natasha in a reading of Three Sisters , assembled by Al Pacino at The Actors Studio. [11]

Landau's made her directorial debut in 2008's Take Flight, a short documentary film about Gary Oldman and his creative process. Oldman spoke positively about the experience. [12] [13] With her husband, Deverill Weekes, Landau co-directed Dream Out Loud, about make-up artist Kazuhiro Tsuji, who was branching into the world of fine art. The film captures one of his creations from inception to culmination, and features interviews with Guillermo del Toro, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rian Johnson.

In 2009, Landau co-wrote issues #24 and #25 of the Angel comic book series for IDW Publishing, in collaboration with Brian Lynch, with storylines featuring her Buffy and Angel character Drusilla. Landau also contributed numerous ideas and references for the cover and interior art of the issues, and has stated that she would like to write more comics set in the Buffyverse. [14] She was slated to write a five-part Drusilla miniseries from Dark Horse Comics in 2014, which is now delayed. [15]

In 2012–13, Landau produced and starred in the play Danny and the Deep Blue Sea directed by John McNaughton at the Crown City Theater in North Hollywood. [16] Her portrayal received very positive reviews [17] [18] and awards, [19] and the show was extended multiple times due to popularity. [20]

In July 2013, Landau was cast as a new incarnation of the Time Lord Romana in the audio dramas Gallifrey [21] and Luna Romana, [22] both of which are spin-offs from the BBC television series Doctor Who .

In 2019, Landau was cast as Rita Tedesco in the fifth season of Bosch [23] on Amazon Prime Video.

In September 2019, Landau was cast as the vampire Hester, for the web series Vampire: The Masquerade - LA by Night. Her character was part a cabal of Tremere, vampires that can do blood sorcery, called the Wyrd Sisters.

Personal life

Landau is a member of the Actors Studio and in 2008 was being mentored by Mike Medavoy. [12]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1992 Parker Lewis Can't Lose LucindaEpisode: "Dance of Romance"
1999 Millennium Jeanie BronsteinEpisode: "Forcing the End"
La Femme Nikita Sarah GerrardEpisode: "Before I Sleep"
Jan Baylin
1997–2003 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Drusilla 17 episodes
2000–2004 Angel 7 episodes
2003 Strong Medicine LorraineEpisode: "Seize the Day"
2005Fatal ReunionLisa Calders / Dana DeclanTelevision film
2005–2006 Justice League Unlimited Tala, Plastique, Rama Kushna, Zatanna Voice, 7 episodes [24]
2008–2010 Ben 10: Alien Force Helen Wheels, Verdona, Natalie TennysonVoice, 7 episodes [24]
2011 Goodnight Burbank HerselfEpisode: "Lesbians on Acid"
2011–2012 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien Verdona, Natalie Tennyson, WaitressVoice, 4 episodes [24]
2012 Criminal Minds Catherine HeathridgeEpisode: "Heathridge Manor"
Green Lantern: The Animated Series DrusaVoice, 3 episodes [24]
ThunderCats Queen LeonaEpisode: "Native Son" [24]
2014 Ben 10: Omniverse Helen Wheels, MagistrataVoice, episode: "Weapon XI" [24]
2015Muzzled: the MusicalBlack Matron
2019 Bosch Rita Tedesco
2020 Claws Cordelia [25]

Film

YearTitleRole
1990 Pump Up the Volume Joni (scenes deleted)
1992 Neon City Twink Talaman
1994 Ed Wood Loretta King
1994 Direct Hit Shelly
1995 Theodore Rex Dr. Veronica Shade
1996Life Among the CannibalsRachael
1997 Ravager Sarra
1999Carlo's WakeAnna Torello
2001Freedom Park
2002 Citizens Zoey
2002RepossessedAlison LaBatte
2004 Toolbox Murders Julia Cunningham
2005 Going Shopping Isabella
2007 Hack! Mary
2008Haunted Echoes (aka: Darkness Visible)Claire
2008Take Flight: Gary Oldman Directs ChutzpahThe Director
2009 Green Lantern: First Flight Labella
2009 Monster Mutt Nataliya
2009Albion RisingElla Wheeler Wilcox
2011 InSight Dr. Lisa Rosan
2011 The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Weiland
2012 Justice League: Doom Ten (voice)
2012 Strange Frame Bitsea (voice) [24]
2014 Dark Hearts Astrid
2014FairfieldMs. Matthews
2014 Where the Road Runs Out Corina
2015 Justice League: Throne of Atlantis Lois Lane (voice) [24]
2016 The Bronx Bull The Starlet
2017 The Terror of Hallow's Eve Nurse Pryce
2020A Place Among the Dead [23] Jules

Video games

YearTitleRole
2007 BioShock Little Sisters
2009 Ben 10 Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks Verdona [24]
2012 PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Little Sister [24]
2013-2014 BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Little Sister / Marsha Lutz / Leta

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNomineeResult
2001Saturn AwardBest Supporting Actress on TelevisionDrusilla in Angel in 2000Nominated

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