"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" creator Joss
Whedon may have summed up Juliet Landau
best when he called her and her co-star James
Marsters. "the Sid and Nancy of the vampire
set." Cast as Drusilla, a vampire who along
with her blood-sucking lover, Spike (Marsters).
is out to slay the slayer.
Landau began her career in Los Angeles and
performed all over the world before returning to
her home town. She attended the American
School in London graduated from the North
Carolina Center for the Arts, starting her career
as a ballerina. While she may have paid the
bills dancing for five years, she had acting on
the brain all along. She became a member of
the world famous Actor's Studio and started
auditioning for parts. Juliet soon found herself
acting alongside John Cusak in "The Grifters,"
Whoopee Goldberg in "Theodore Rex" and
the other Landau, Martin, in Tim Burton's "Ed
Wood," where she co-starred as Loretta King.
Landau Currently lives in Los Angeles.
Biography is copyright © 1998 The WB Television Network and is from the Official Buffy the Vampire Slayer Site.
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