Juliet Landau

Juliet Landau is an actress who portrayed Drusilla in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel television series. She also co-wrote Buffyverse comics from IDW Publishing.

Career[]

Landau co-starred in Ed Wood — a film which also featured her father, Martin — 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 its spinoff show Angel over the course of six seasons.

Lead roles in independent films include: The Yellow Wallpaper, Darkness Visible, 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 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 and his creative process. She has written the short film It's Raining Cats and Cats and adapted Andrew Prine's play Cissy into a short as well. She portrayed Claire in the British horror film Haunted Echoes, directed by Harry Bromley Davenport.

In 2009, Landau co-wrote two issues of the Angel comic book series for IDW Publishing, in collaboration with Brian Lynch. The issues feature Drusilla, the character she played on Buffy and Angel. In 2012, it was announced that Landau would write the Dark Horse Comics miniseries Drusilla: Run and Catch, but the project was indefinitely postponed.

Landau was cast in 2013 as a new incarnation of the Time Lord Romana in the audio dramas Gallifrey and Luna Romana,[22] both of which are spin-offs from the BBC television series Doctor Who. In 2019, she portrayed Rita Tedesco in the fifth season of Bosch on Amazon Prime Video. Later that year, Landau was cast as the vampire Hester for the web series Vampire: The Masquerade — LA by Night.

In 2023, Landau returned as Drusilla in the Audible audio series Slayers: A Buffyverse Story.

Buffyverse credits[]

Episodes acted[]

Landau guest-starred in 17 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and 7 of Angel. Of these 24 episodes, she portrayed the vampire Drusilla in 21 and the First Evil in Drusilla's form in 3:

Landau also voiced Drusilla from another reality in the nine episodes of the audio series Slayers: A Buffyverse Story

Comics written[]

Laundau co-wrote two issues of the Angel comic series and wrote a cancelled miniseries:

Featurettes[]

Landau appeared in the following featurettes:

"Designing Buffy"
"A Buffy Bestiary"
"Beauty and the Beasts: Behind Buffy's Makeup"
"Angel Season 2 Overview"
"The Sets of Angel"
"The Make-Up of Angel"
"Buffy Wraps"
"Halos & Horns: Recurring Villainy"
Audio commentary for "Destiny"

External links[]

Official website
Juliet Landau on Wikipedia
Juliet Landau on IMDb
Juliet Landau on Comic Book DB