Juliet Landau, the daughter of Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, co-starred in Tim Burton's highly acclaimed Ed Wood as "Loretta King" and starred opposite Whoopi Goldberg and Armin Mueller-Stahl in New Line Cinema's Theodore Rex as "Dr. Veronica Shade". She portrays "Drusilla" in the television dramas Buffy the Vampire Slayer and _"Angel" (1999/I)_ , and will next be seen co-starring in Henry Jaglom's latest film, Going Shopping. Some of the diverse independent films in which she has starred include Citizens of Perpetual Indulgence, Direct Hit, Life Among the Cannibals, Ravager, Carlo's Wake opposite Michael Chiklis, Christopher Meloni and Rita Moreno, and Repossessed, opposite JoBeth Williams. Juliet has received outstanding notices for leading roles in the theatre, including Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing!" at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre and, in Los Angeles, "Uncommon Women and Others", "The Pushcart Peddlers", "Billy Irish", "We're Talking Today Here", "How to Steal an Election", "Failure of Nerve", the West Coast premiere of "Irish Coffee" and the world premiere of the musical "The Songs of War". She was a professional ballerina and is a member of the Actors Studio.



Her sister is producer Susan Landau Finch. Currently resides in Los Angeles. Auditioned for the role of "Polignac" in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006) but lost out to Rose Byrne.