Juliet Landau Biography
Juliet Landau (Full name- Juliet Rose Landau) is an American actress, director, producer and ballerina who was born on March 30, 1965, Los Angeles, California, U.S. She is 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. Landau is also known for co-starring in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood as Loretta King.
Juliet Landau Family
Landau was born to veteran actor parents Martin Landau and Barbara Bain in Los Angeles. Both her parents were Jewish and her older sister is film producer Susan Landau Finch. Landau and her sisters spent their early childhood in a Tudor style house in West Los Angeles. She is a former professional ballerina and her mentor was the actress Susan Peretz.
Juliet Landau Husband
Juliet Landau is a 54 years old married woman as of 2019. She tied the knot with Deverill Weekes on 2nd October 2009, in a private ceremony in Los Angeles. Moreover, they are enjoying their marriage life and often shares their company. Currently, they don’t have any children.
Juliet Landau Age
Landau was born on March 30, 1965, Los Angeles, California. She is actress, director, producer and former professional ballerina. Landau is 54 years old as of 2019.
Juliet Landau Accent
Landau plays Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer where she is required to put on an English accent. Her accent was too heavy according to some critics.
Juliet Landau Net Worth
Juliet Landau has an estimated net worth of $5 Million as of 2019. Moreover, she maintained a lucrative net worth of $4.5 Million back in 2018. Landau’s actual salary isn’t disclosed until now. But, we can assume that she earns $50,427 which is an average salary of an American actress in the United States.
Juliet Landau Movies And Tv Shows
Juliuet Landau co-starred in Ed Wood as Loretta King and starred opposite Whoopi Goldberg in Theodore Rex. She played Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and appeared on Buffy and its spinoff show Angel over the course of six seasons, receiving positive reviews.
Independent film roles for Landau include 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 a co-starring turn in Henry Jaglom’s Going Shopping.
Juliet Landau has made numerous television guest appearances, including on Criminal Minds, Millennium, La Femme Nikita, Strong Medicine and a starring role in the Lifetime movie Fatal Reunion. Landau voiced various characters on the animated series Justice League Unlimited and Ben 10 as well as the animated movie Green Lantern: First Flight. She has also voiced characters for three of the BioShock video games.
Juliet Landau theater roles include Awake and Sing at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, the world premiere of Failure of Nerve, A Streetcar Named Desire, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Uncommon Women and Others, The Pushcart Peddlers, Billy Irish, the musical How To Steal An Election, We’re Talking Today Here, Irish Coffee and the world premiere of musical The Songs of War. Landau played Natasha in a reading of Three Sisters, assembled by Al Pacino at The Actors Studio.
Juliet Landau made her directorial debut in the 2008’s Take Flight, a short documentary film about Gary Oldman and his creative process. Oldman spoke positively about the experience. Landau co-directed Dream Out Loud, with her husband, Deverill Weekes, 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.
Landau co-wrote issues #24 and #25 of the Angel comic book series for IDW Publishing in 2009, in collaboration with Brian Lynch, with storylines featuring her Buffy and Angel character Drusilla. Juliet 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. She was slated to write a five-part Drusilla miniseries from Dark Horse Comics in 2014, which is now delayed.
Landau produced and starred in the play Danny and the Deep Blue Sea in 2012–13, directed by John McNaughton at the Crown City Theater in North Hollywood. Her portrayal won rave reviews and multiple awards, and the show was extended five times.
Landau was cast as a new incarnation of the Time Lord Romana in the audio dramas Gallifrey in July 2013, and Luna Romana, both of which are spin-offs from the TV series Doctor Who.
Juliet Landau 2019 | Bosch
Juliet Landau was cast as Rita Tedesco in the fifth season of Bosch on Amazon Prime Video in 2019.
Juliet Landau Interview
You’ve recently directed a short documentary about Gary Oldman, Take Flight, and co-directed a music video for Godhead. Can you tell me a bit about how these projects came about?
Juliet Landau: Take Flight was my directorial debut. Gary Oldman was directing a music video for the Jewish Hip Hop band, Chutzpah, which he shot entirely on cell phones. He asked me to direct the ‘making-of’ and it bloomed from there. The film runs 25 minutes, which includes the music video at the end. Jason C. Miller and Ulli Hepperlin saw Take Flight and asked me to co-direct Godhead’s Hero video. I co-directed with Deverill Weekes. It was a wonderful collaboration.
Can you tell me a little about the process of making the documentary, beginning to end?
Juliet Landau: Well, after I said yes, I realized that, even though I have been in a lot of ‘making-of’s, I had never, ever watched one, not even the ones I had been in. So, I started to do some research. I watched tons of movie and music video ‘making-of’s and tons of documentaries and director commentaries. I made notes of what I felt was interesting and then made an outline of what I wanted to go after on set.The video shot over the course of three days. I had three cameras chronicling the action. Between that and all of the cell phone footage, there was 50 hours of material. I watched all 50 hours three times through.Gary operated one of the ‘cell-cams’ and I became very excited about having such rare perspective of an artist creating. So, I asked him if it could develop into a short doc about him, about his process. Then I came up with the structure.
In the beginning we get peppered glimpses of his view, towards the middle, longer, more expansive pieces, and by the very end the audience is completely released into Gary’s perspective. The footage cuts seamlessly, but I decided to keep the cell phone footage 4:3 and everything else 16:9, so it is clear when we are looking through Gary’s eyes. I chose classical music for Gary’s internal creative world and the outside world is represented by the music of Chutzpah. I had so much fun!
You co-wrote two comics about the character you portrayed in Buffy and its spin-off Angel. Where have you taken Drusilla and how did you approach writing about her rather than playing her?
Juliet Landau: It is a two-issue arc. It takes place just before and just after The Fall. [The Fall is when the senior partners from Wolfram and Hart send Los Angeles, Angel and his team to Hell.]
It didn’t feel all that different to write Dru than to play her. I was in the midst of editing the Hero music video when I talked to IDW editor Chris Ryall, and Brian Lynch, who had written all the other issues, for the first time about the possibility of doing it.
Immediately upon hanging up, the idea came to me. That night I began writing it in script form. I sent it to them and they loved it! Brian and I went to work from there.I think inhabiting the character for such a long period of time, made it very fluid to tap back into her.
Can you tell me a bit about your short film It’s Raining Cats And Cats?
Juliet Landau: It is a black comedy that I wrote and in which I will play seven different characters.
I have an amazing group of talented people onboard. Drac Studios, who just won their 4th Academy Award for Benjamin Button, will design and do the make-up. Two-time Emmy-winning Gloria Casny will do the hair. Two- time Emmy winning Pembrooke Andrews, who I worked with on Take Flight, will do the sound. Jeremy Alter, who produced David Lynch’s Inland Empire and who produced Take Flight, will again produce.
It is an ambitious project, so we are still raising money. I am selling autographed merchandise in the julietlandau.com store as fellow Buffy alum, Amber Benson did to make her two films.
