Early life

Landau was born in Los Angeles to actor parents Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. Her older sister is film producer Susan Landau Finch, and the sisters spent their early childhood in a Tudor style house in West Los Angeles. Her family is Jewish. When Juliet was a toddler, both of her parents were regulars on the original Mission: Impossible TV series.

Landau is a former professional ballerina, and her mentor was the actress Susan Peretz.

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. Steve Vineberg of The New York Times wrote, "The wildly gifted Juliet Landau... plays Dru like an acid-addled cross between Ophelia and Cassandra."

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 three of the BioShock video games.

Landau has received outstanding reviews for her work in the 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 2008's Take Flight, a short documentary film about Gary Oldman. It is about Oldman's creative process. He has said, "Juliet Landau is an exceptional talent! I entrusted Juliet to make a documentary film about me and I am thrilled with the results! Take Flight is a special film that shows me in a very different light. I will work with Juliet again without hesitation." 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 will helm these projects. She portrayed Claire in the British horror film Haunted Echoes, who was directed by Harry Bromley Davenport.

In 2009, Juliet Landau co-wrote two issues of the Angel comic book series for IDW Publishing, in collaboration with Brian Lynch. The issues (#24 and #25 of the series, appearing in August and September 2009) feature Drusilla, the character she played on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. In addition to writing, she contributed numerous ideas and references for both the cover and interior art of the issues. She 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.

In 2012-13, she starred in the play Danny and the Deep Blue Sea directed by John McNaughton at the Crown City Theater in North Hollywood.

In July 2013, it was announced that Landau had been cast as a new incarnation of the Time Lord Romana in the Big Finish Productions audio dramas Gallifrey VI and Luna Romana, both of which are spin-offs from the TV series Doctor Who. The character of Romana was previously played in Doctor Who (and in the Big Finish audio dramas) by both Lalla Ward and Mary Tamm. In the mythology of the series, Time Lords have the ability to regenerate into new bodies and personalities, hence not only can the role be recast but, as is in the case of Gallifrey VI in which she co-stars with Ward, different incarnations of the same Time Lord may actually meet.

Personal life

Landau is a member of The Actors Studio and as recently as of 2008 was being mentored by Mike Medavoy.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Parker Lewis Can't Lose	Lucinda	Episode: "Dance of Romance"
1999	Millennium	Jeanie Bronstein	Episode: "Forcing the End"
	La Femme Nikita	Sarah Gerrard	Episode: "Before I Sleep"
		Jan Baylin
1997-2003	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Drusilla	17 episodes
2000-2004	Angel		7 episodes
2003	Strong Medicine	Lorraine	Episode: "Seize the Day"
2005	Fatal Reunion	Lisa Calders/Dana Declan	(TV movie)
2005-2006	Justice League Unlimited	Tala, Plastique, Bernadeth, Rama Kushna, Zatanna	(7 Episodes) Voice Role
2008	Ben 10: Alien Force	Natalie/Anodite Verdona	Episode: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
		Helen	Episode: "Plumber's Helpers"
			Episode: "Voided"
2009		Helen/Tini	Episode: "Vengeance of Vilgax: Part 1"
2010		Helen	Episode: "Above & Beyond"
2011	Ben 10: Ultimate Alien	Fritz	Episode: "Viktor: The Spoils"
		Natalie/Verdona	Episode: "Girl Trouble"
		Natalie/French Classroom Teacher	Episode: "It's Not Easy Being Gwen"
		Verdona/Waitress	Episode: "Moonstruck"
	Goodnight Burbank	Herself	Episode: "Lesbians on Acid"
2012	Criminal Minds	Catherine Heathridge	Season 7 Episode 19 "Heathridge Manor"
	Green Lantern: The Animated Series	Drusa	3 episodes

Film

Year	Title	Role
1990	Pump Up the Volume	Joni (scenes deleted)
1990	The Grifters	Young Lilly (uncredited)
1992	Neon City	Twink
1994	Ed Wood	Loretta King
1994	Direct Hit	Shelly
1995	Theodore Rex	Dr. Veronica Shade
1996	Life Among the Cannibals	Rachael
1997	Ravager	Sarra
1999	Carlo's Wake	Anna Torello
2001	Freedom Park
2002	Citizens	Zoey
2002	Repossessed	Alison Labatte
2004	Toolbox Murders	Julia Cunningham
2005	Going Shopping	Isabella
2007	Hack!	Mary
2008	Haunted Echoes (aka: Darkness Visible)	Claire
2008	Take Flight: Gary Oldman Directs Chutzpah	Director
2009	Green Lantern: First Flight	Labella
2009	Monster Mutt	Nataliya
2011	The Yellow Wallpaper	Charlotte Weiland
2012	Justice League: Doom	Ten
2012	Strange Frame	Bitsea
2015	Justice League: Throne of Atlantis	Lois Lane

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2007	BioShock	Little Sisters
2012	PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale	Little Sister

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result
2001	Saturn Award	Best Supporting Actress on Television	Drusilla in Angel in 2000	Nominated

[ Source: Wikipedia ]