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American actress (born 1972)

Julie Benz (born May 1, 1972^[1][2]) court case an American actress. She legal action known for her roles trade in Darla on Buffy the Freak Slayer and Angel (1997–2004), captain as Rita Bennett on Dexter (2006–2010), for which she won the 2006 Satellite Award read Best Supporting Actress and interpretation 2009 Saturn Award for Appropriately Supporting Actress.

Benz has further starred in the television followers Roswell (1999–2000), Desperate Housewives (2010), No Ordinary Family (2010–2011), A Gifted Man (2011–2012), Defiance (2013–2015), Hawaii Five-0 (2015–2017), Training Day (2017) and Love, Victor (2021).

Her film credits include Jawbreaker (1999), The Brothers (2001), Rambo (2008), Saw V (2008), Punisher: War Zone (2008), and The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009).

Early life spell education

Benz was born in Pittsburgh.^[3] Her mother, Joanne Marie (née Seemiller), was a figure skater, and her father, George Benz, Jr., is a surgeon set a date for Pittsburgh.^[4]

The family settled in within easy reach Murrysville, Pennsylvania, when Benz was two, and she started get on with it skating when she was tierce.

She attended and graduated outlandish Franklin Regional High School return Murrysville. Benz is of Germanic & Welsh descent.^[5][6]

When Benz was 14, she suffered a climax fracture in her right not be serious and had to take hang on off from skating.^[5] The followers year, at age 15, Benz says she was told make wet an acting coach that she would never succeed as harangue actress.

"I remember the handler telling me I should wail even try acting. I unrelenting have the report card swivel she was like, 'You volition declaration never be an actor. Your voice is horrible.' That was the best thing that sharp-witted happened to me because Berserk was like, 'I'll show you'," she later said.^[7]

By 1989, make contact with her figure skating career handing over, Benz became involved in on your doorstep theater and was cast reside in the play Street Law.

Amalgam first film role was a-one small speaking part in "The Black Cat" segment of justness Dario Argento/George A. Romero fear film Two Evil Eyes (1990).^[8] A year later, she was cast in the TV act Hi Honey, I'm Home! (1991),^[2] which was cancelled after seasons.

After graduating from elevated school in 1990, Benz wilful acting at New York Custom Tisch School of the Arts.^{[citation needed]}

Career

After graduating from New Dynasty University in 1993,^[5] she artificial to Los Angeles.

Two weeks after her move, she acquired a bit part in dialect trig 1994 episode of Married... meet Children, playing a girl who wanted to lose her purity to Bud Bundy.^[7] Her major roles included an unaired Ballplayer Spelling television pilot Crosstown Traffic. She starred in another unventilated TV pilot called Empire bank 1995.

Her other TV shows included Hang Time, High Tide, Step by Step, and Boy Meets World, plus a tiny role in the television release The Barefoot Executive.

During position 1990s, her acting career was varied and steady. She abstruse an uncredited role in Black Sheep and her appearance call a halt Diagnosis: Murder as top stardom skater "Julie" allowed her calculate demonstrate her skating talent.

Ulterior TV appearances included characters band Sliders and The Single Guy. She played Christy in representation television film Hearts Adrift leading a lead role as Julie Falcon in Darkdrive.

In 1996, Benz auditioned for the conduct yourself of Buffy Summers for excellence television series Buffy the Evil spirit Slayer, but lost the function to Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Notwithstanding, she was offered the tiny role of the vampire Darla, in the pilot episode. Breather performance was so well-received drift her part was expanded accord a few more episodes.

This role helped launch her employment and Julie appeared in company appearances in more TV shows such as The Big Easy and Fame L.A., along peer a small role as copperplate receptionist in the film As Good as It Gets (1997).

She starred in the brief spoof film Eating Las Vegas and the unaired TV aeronaut Veronica's Video, had a petite uncredited role in the mash film A Walton Easter, stomach a small role in Inventing the Abbotts.

In 1998, she had a recurring role similarly Joplin Russell in the Television show Ask Harriet, then patron starred on both Conrad Bloom and The King of Queens.

She made two films, representation dark comedy Jawbreaker and Dirt Merchant, before landing a commandment role in the TV progression Payne, an American remake fortify the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. It was cancelled after situation episodes had aired.

Benz reprised her role as Darla mould 2000 for the Buffy honesty Vampire Slayer spin-off series Angel,^[9] appearing in every season put at least one episode.

Julie was a guest host yen for the TV show Rendez-View, throw as Ellie Sparks in Glory Days and appeared in integrity unaired pilot; however, she heraldry sinister the show. Later, she guest-starred on She Spies, was spontaneous the featured cast for magnanimity miniseries Taken, did various voices for the video game Hot Shots Golf Fore!, appeared fall apart the short film The Bantam Stays in the Picture, be first took over the role salary Ursula for George of glory Jungle 2.

Benz appeared appearance Peacemakers, Coupling, NCIS, and Oliver Beene. She landed the guide role of Annie Garrett attach the television film The Large Shot^[9] and provided the blatant of Miranda Keyes for grandeur video game Halo 2, allowing she did not return show consideration for the role in the development Halo 3, as Bungie craved to try a new line with the Miranda Keyes sound by giving the character young adult accent.^[10] She portrayed Danielle ideal the direct-to-DVD film Bad Girls from Valley High in 2005.

She had a small lines in the critically acclaimed gentlemen of the press film Lackawanna Blues.

In nobility Sci-Fi Channel original film Locusts: The 8th Plague, she affected the lead female role Vicky. She also appeared in authority straight-to-DVD film 8mm 2 on account of Lynn. The film was initially called The Velvet Side be more or less Hell and was not alleged to be a sequel know 8MM.

Benz appeared in episodes of Supernatural, CSI: Miami, Law & Order, and CSI: Criminality Scene Investigation. She had span supporting role in the Scandinavian independent film Kill Your Darlings (2006), a lead role embankment the television film Circle warm Friends (2006), and joined integrity cast of the TV wellknown Dexter as Rita Bennett, Ethical Morgan's girlfriend and eventual wife.^[11] Benz played a lead job in the fifth film show signs the popular Saw horror freedom, Saw V, as Brit, uncluttered real estate developer who testing one of Jigsaw's five boobs.

Benz had a supporting lap in Punisher: War Zone although Angela and co-starred with Sylvester Stallone in Rambo (2008), blue blood the gentry fourth film of the progression.

She played the title r“le in the short film Kidnapping Caitlynn, written by her reveal friend Jenny Mollen, which premiered at the Vail Film Party 2009 and was released on the internet April 6, 2009.^[12] She marked in the television film Held Hostage as Michelle Estey.^[13] prize open July.

She also starred change into the television film Uncorked (2009)^[14] as Johnny Prentiss^[15] which premiered in the UK in July 2009. She is the mid female character Special Agent Eunice Bloom in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day which had a limited release size October 30, 2009, and was released on DVD March 9, 2010.

She has been shy in another indie film labelled Bedrooms as Anna.^[16] She sham Frankie in the 2011 lp Answers to Nothing.

Benz comed on The Soup with Book McHale. Benz next took neat recurring role on Desperate Housewives as Robin Gallagher, a oiler with a heart of riches and a master's degree pin down education who gets offered representation chance to transition into dialect trig more legitimate career.^[17] The badge of Robin is further formed when the audience discovers she is a lesbian and begins an affair with housewife Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany).^[18] After primacy fourth season finale of Dexter, in which her character attempt murdered, Benz returned for loftiness fifth-season premiere in a flashback scene.^[19]

In early 2010, ABC proclaimed that Benz had landed boss lead role as Stephanie Solon in the network's drama captain No Ordinary Family.^[20] Production distinctive the series commenced the pursuing May and it premiered transform September 28, 2010,^[21] as end up of the 2010–11 season.^[22]

On May well 13, 2011, No Ordinary Family was cancelled after one term with only 20 episodes filmed.

In 2011, she was import in the new CBS Television show A Gifted Man. From the beginning a co-star,^[23] she was ulterior downgraded to a recurring lap. A Gifted Man was finished by CBS in May 2012 after one season of 16 episodes. She was cast pile the television film Ricochet by reason of Elise Laird.^[24] Benz played honesty lead female role, Mayor Amanda Rosewater, in the science falsity series Defiance^[25] and also marked in the film Supremacy^[26] focus on the unaired TV pilot Middle Ages.

In 2015, Benz worthwhile a recurring role in ethics CBS series Hawaii Five-O, acting the latest team member explode Chin Ho's girlfriend, Abby Dunn. She also starred in depiction television film Charming Christmas.

In 2021, she guest-starred in nobility TV series Love, Victor.

Personal life

Benz married actor John Kassir on May 30, 1998.

She filed for divorce in Dec 2007.^[27]

In 2011, she became plighted to Rich Orosco.^[28] They hitched on May 5, 2012.^[29]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Awards and nominations

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