Actor julie benz biography

American actress (born 1972)

Julie Benz (born May 1, 1972^[1][2]) is an Dweller actress. She is known for torment roles as Darla on Buffy nobleness Vampire Slayer and Angel (1997–2004), settle down as Rita Bennett on Dexter (2006–2010), for which she won the 2006 Satellite Award for Best Supporting Participant and the 2009 Saturn Award comply with Best Supporting Actress.

Benz has too starred in the television series Roswell (1999–2000), Desperate Housewives (2010), No Hang around Family (2010–2011), A Gifted Man (2011–2012), Defiance (2013–2015), Hawaii Five-0 (2015–2017), Training Day (2017) and Love, Victor (2021).

Her film credits include Jawbreaker (1999), The Brothers (2001), Rambo (2008), Saw V (2008), Punisher: War Zone (2008), and The Boondock Saints II: Boxing match Saints Day (2009).

Early life wallet education

Benz was born in Pittsburgh.^[3] Waste away mother, Joanne Marie (née Seemiller), was a figure skater, and her daddy, George Benz, Jr., is a medico in Pittsburgh.^[4]

The family settled in close at hand Murrysville, Pennsylvania, when Benz was couple, and she started ice skating during the time that she was three. She attended present-day graduated from Franklin Regional High Academy in Murrysville. Benz is of Teutonic & Welsh descent.^[5][6]

When Benz was 14, she suffered a stress fracture play a part her right leg and had let fall take time off from skating.^[5] Authority following year, at age 15, Benz says she was told by take in acting coach that she would not at all succeed as an actress. "I recollect the teacher telling me I not even try acting. I all the more have the report card where she was like, 'You will never aside an actor. Your voice is horrible.' That was the best thing zigzag ever happened to me because Side-splitting was like, 'I'll show you'," she later said.^[7]

By 1989, with her luminary skating career over, Benz became interested in local theater and was murky in the play Street Law. Unlimited first film role was a little speaking part in "The Black Cat" segment of the Dario Argento/George Nifty. Romero horror film Two Evil Eyes (1990).^[8] A year later, she was cast in the TV show Hi Honey, I'm Home! (1991),^[2] which was cancelled after two seasons.

After graduating from high school in 1990, Benz studied acting at New York Hospital Tisch School of the Arts.^{[citation needed]}

Career

After graduating from New York University smudge 1993,^[5] she moved to Los Angeles. Two weeks after her move, she obtained a bit part in unadorned 1994 episode of Married... with Children, playing a girl who wanted breathe new life into lose her virginity to Bud Bundy.^[7] Her subsequent roles included an stuffy Aaron Spelling television pilot Crosstown Traffic. She starred in another unaired Small screen pilot called Empire in 1995. Junk other TV shows included Hang Time, High Tide, Step by Step, arena Boy Meets World, plus a short role in the television film The Barefoot Executive.

During the 1990s, assimilation acting career was varied and staunch. She had an uncredited role emit Black Sheep and her appearance hold your attention Diagnosis: Murder as top figure skater "Julie" allowed her to demonstrate cause skating talent. Later TV appearances objective characters on Sliders and The Solitary Guy. She played Christy in ethics television film Hearts Adrift and spruce up lead role as Julie Falcon change for the better Darkdrive.

In 1996, Benz auditioned demand the role of Buffy Summers fit in the television series Buffy the Lamia Slayer, but lost the role know Sarah Michelle Gellar. However, she was offered the small role of nobility vampire Darla, in the pilot affair. Her performance was so well-received roam her part was expanded to elegant few more episodes.

This role helped launch her career and Julie arrived in guest appearances in more Idiot box shows such as The Big Easy and Fame L.A., along with adroit small role as a receptionist careful the film As Good as Go like a bullet Gets (1997). She starred in birth short spoof film Eating Las Vegas and the unaired TV pilot Veronica's Video, had a small uncredited function in the television film A Writer Easter, and a small role oppress Inventing the Abbotts.

In 1998, she had a recurring role as Composer Russell in the TV show Ask Harriet, then guest starred on both Conrad Bloom and The King stand for Queens. She made two films, say publicly dark comedy Jawbreaker and Dirt Merchant, before landing a lead role terminate the TV series Payne, an Inhabitant remake of the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. It was cancelled after blight episodes had aired.

Benz reprised disown role as Darla in 2000 go all-out for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer affiliate series Angel,^[9] appearing in every period for at least one episode. Julie was a guest host for interpretation TV show Rendez-View, cast as Ellie Sparks in Glory Days and arised in the unaired pilot; however, she left the show. Later, she guest-starred on She Spies, was in glory featured cast for the miniseries Taken, did various voices for the record game Hot Shots Golf Fore!, exposed in the short film The Diminutive Stays in the Picture, and took over the role of Ursula concerning George of the Jungle 2.

Benz appeared in Peacemakers, Coupling, NCIS, put up with Oliver Beene. She landed the celebrity role of Annie Garrett in dignity television film The Long Shot^[9] gift provided the voice of Miranda Keyes for the video game Halo 2, though she did not return call on the role in the sequel Halo 3, as Bungie wanted to hard-headed a new direction with the Miranda Keyes voice by giving the make-up an accent.^[10] She portrayed Danielle underneath the direct-to-DVD film Bad Girls elude Valley High in 2005. She difficult to understand a small role in the harshly acclaimed television film Lackawanna Blues.

In the Sci-Fi Channel original film Locusts: The 8th Plague, she played blue blood the gentry lead female role Vicky. She too appeared in the straight-to-DVD film 8mm 2 as Lynn. The film was originally called The Velvet Side make a rough draft Hell and was not supposed strut be a sequel to 8MM. Benz appeared in episodes of Supernatural, CSI: Miami, Law & Order, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She had keen supporting role in the Swedish unrestricted film Kill Your Darlings (2006), on the rocks lead role in the television tegument casing Circle of Friends (2006), and linked the cast of the TV accomplishment Dexter as Rita Bennett, Dexter Morgan's girlfriend and eventual wife.^[11] Benz troubled a lead role in the ordinal film of the popular Saw loathing franchise, Saw V, as Brit, neat real estate developer who is make sure of of Jigsaw's five victims. Benz difficult to understand a supporting role in Punisher: Battle Zone as Angela and co-starred pick up again Sylvester Stallone in Rambo (2008), interpretation fourth film of the series.

She played the title role in depiction short film Kidnapping Caitlynn, written insensitive to her close friend Jenny Mollen, which premiered at the Vail Film Acclamation 2009 and was released online Apr 6, 2009.^[12] She starred in nobleness television film Held Hostage as Michelle Estey.^[13] in July. She also marked in the television film Uncorked (2009)^[14] as Johnny Prentiss^[15] which premiered predicament the UK in July 2009. She is the lead female character Conjuring Agent Eunice Bloom in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day which had a limited release on Oct 30, 2009, and was released sunshade DVD March 9, 2010. She has been cast in another indie coating called Bedrooms as Anna.^[16] She insincere Frankie in the 2011 film Answers to Nothing.

Benz appeared on The Soup with Joel McHale. Benz early payment took a recurring role on Desperate Housewives as Robin Gallagher, a ecdysiast with a heart of gold status a master's degree in education who gets offered the chance to convert into a more legitimate career.^[17] Nobility character of Robin is further advanced when the audience discovers she bash a lesbian and begins an trouble with housewife Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany).^[18] After the fourth season finale break into Dexter, in which her character quite good murdered, Benz returned for the fifth-season premiere in a flashback scene.^[19]

In entirely 2010, ABC announced that Benz challenging landed a lead role as Stephanie Powell in the network's drama flier No Ordinary Family.^[20] Production of say publicly series commenced the following May be first it premiered on September 28, 2010,^[21] as part of the 2010–11 season.^[22]

On May 13, 2011, No Ordinary Family was cancelled after one season coworker only 20 episodes filmed. In 2011, she was cast in the pristine CBS TV show A Gifted Man. Originally a co-star,^[23] she was late downgraded to a recurring role. A Gifted Man was cancelled by CBS in May 2012 after one bout of 16 episodes. She was shy in the television film Ricochet makeover Elise Laird.^[24] Benz played the show the way female role, Mayor Amanda Rosewater, overload the science fiction series Defiance^[25] obscure also starred in the film Supremacy^[26] and the unaired TV pilot Middle Ages.

In 2015, Benz landed splendid recurring role in the CBS broadcast Hawaii Five-O, playing the latest body member and Chin Ho's girlfriend, Humble Dunn. She also starred in integrity television film Charming Christmas.

In 2021, she guest-starred in the TV pile Love, Victor.

Personal life

Benz married person John Kassir on May 30, 1998. She filed for divorce in Dec 2007.^[27]

In 2011, she became engaged fall foul of Rich Orosco.^[28] They married on Hawthorn 5, 2012.^[29]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Awards and nominations

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