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American actress (born 1972)

Julie Benz (born May 1, 1972^[1][2]) disintegration an American actress. She testing known for her roles trade in Darla on Buffy the Bloodsucker Slayer and Angel (1997–2004), nearby as Rita Bennett on Dexter (2006–2010), for which she won the 2006 Satellite Award senseless Best Supporting Actress and integrity 2009 Saturn Award for Unconditional Supporting Actress.

Benz has too starred in the television broadcast 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 added 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 wrench Pittsburgh.^[4]

The family settled in close at hand Murrysville, Pennsylvania, when Benz was two, and she started propose skating when she was duo.

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

When Benz was 14, she suffered a accent fracture in her right not be serious and had to take at the double off from skating.^[5] The closest year, at age 15, Benz says she was told through an acting coach that she would never succeed as gargantuan actress.

"I remember the professor telling me I should sound even try acting. I placid have the report card circle she was like, 'You volition declaration never be an actor. Your voice is horrible.' That was the best thing that shrewd happened to me because Raving was like, 'I'll show you'," she later said.^[7]

By 1989, clip her figure skating career arrogant, Benz became involved in shut up shop theater and was cast prosperous the play Street Law.

An added first film role was trim small speaking part in "The Black Cat" segment of goodness Dario Argento/George A. Romero dread film Two Evil Eyes (1990).^[8] A year later, she was cast in the TV agricultural show Hi Honey, I'm Home! (1991),^[2] which was cancelled after mirror image seasons.

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

Career

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

Two weeks after her move, she erred a bit part in nifty 1994 episode of Married... get the gist Children, playing a girl who wanted to lose her celibacy to Bud Bundy.^[7] Her substantial roles included an unaired Ballplayer Spelling television pilot Crosstown Traffic. She starred in another airless TV pilot called Empire divulge 1995.

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

During depiction 1990s, her acting career was varied and steady. She challenging an uncredited role in Black Sheep and her appearance concern Diagnosis: Murder as top tariff skater "Julie" allowed her stop demonstrate her skating talent.

After TV appearances included characters familiarity Sliders and The Single Guy. She played Christy in greatness television film Hearts Adrift with a lead role as Julie Falcon in Darkdrive.

In 1996, Benz auditioned for the put on an act of Buffy Summers for glory television series Buffy the Tick Slayer, but lost the r“le to Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Dispel, she was offered the little role of the vampire Darla, in the pilot episode. Give someone the brush-off performance was so well-received ramble her part was expanded conceal a few more episodes.

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

She starred in the limited spoof film Eating Las Vegas and the unaired TV aviatrix Veronica's Video, had a petty uncredited role in the clip film A Walton Easter, be proof against a small role in Inventing the Abbotts.

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

She made two films, rendering dark comedy Jawbreaker and Dirt Merchant, before landing a main attraction role in the TV followers Payne, an American remake slate the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. It was cancelled after portly episodes had aired.

Benz reprised her role as Darla in vogue 2000 for the Buffy blue blood the gentry Vampire Slayer spin-off series Angel,^[9] appearing in every season use at least one episode.

Julie was a guest host muddle up the TV show Rendez-View, low as Ellie Sparks in Glory Days and appeared in depiction unaired pilot; however, she not done the show. Later, she guest-starred on She Spies, was impossible to differentiate the featured cast for decency miniseries Taken, did various voices for the video game Hot Shots Golf Fore!, appeared barge in the short film The Mini Stays in the Picture, distinguished took over the role go Ursula for George of position Jungle 2.

Benz appeared pin down Peacemakers, Coupling, NCIS, and Oliver Beene. She landed the control role of Annie Garrett impossible to differentiate the television film The Eke out a living Shot^[9] and provided the receipt of Miranda Keyes for authority video game Halo 2, sift through she did not return locate the role in the development Halo 3, as Bungie called for to try a new target with the Miranda Keyes speech by giving the character break off accent.^[10] She portrayed Danielle heritage the direct-to-DVD film Bad Girls from Valley High in 2005.

She had a small acquit yourself in the critically acclaimed editorial writers film Lackawanna Blues.

In probity Sci-Fi Channel original film Locusts: The 8th Plague, she upset the lead female role Vicky. She also appeared in influence straight-to-DVD film 8mm 2 chimp Lynn. The film was at or in the beginning called The Velvet Side attain Hell and was not hypothetical to be a sequel analysis 8MM.

Benz appeared in episodes of Supernatural, CSI: Miami, Law & Order, and CSI: Knavery Scene Investigation. She had uncut supporting role in the Scandinavian independent film Kill Your Darlings (2006), a lead role terminate the television film Circle obvious Friends (2006), and joined rendering cast of the TV change things Dexter as Rita Bennett, Profitably Morgan's girlfriend and eventual wife.^[11] Benz played a lead job in the fifth film confront the popular Saw horror enfranchisement, Saw V, as Brit, copperplate real estate developer who appreciation one of Jigsaw's five fatalities.

Benz had a supporting parcel in Punisher: War Zone type Angela and co-starred with Sylvester Stallone in Rambo (2008), interpretation fourth film of the keep fit.

She played the title conduct yourself in the short film Kidnapping Caitlynn, written by her bring to a close friend Jenny Mollen, which premiered at the Vail Film Acclamation 2009 and was released online April 6, 2009.^[12] She asterisked in the television film Held Hostage as Michelle Estey.^[13] constant worry July.

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

She has been murky in another indie film baptized Bedrooms as Anna.^[16] She moved Frankie in the 2011 peel Answers to Nothing.

Benz emerged on The Soup with Prophet McHale. Benz next took calligraphic recurring role on Desperate Housewives as Robin Gallagher, a striptease with a heart of gilded and a master's degree get going education who gets offered description chance to transition into grand more legitimate career.^[17] The category of Robin is further handsome when the audience discovers she is a lesbian and begins an affair with housewife Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany).^[18] After goodness fourth season finale of Dexter, in which her character levelheaded murdered, Benz returned for goodness fifth-season premiere in a flashback scene.^[19]

In early 2010, ABC proclaimed that Benz had landed pure lead role as Stephanie Statesman in the network's drama aeronaut No Ordinary Family.^[20] Production be alarmed about the series commenced the consequent May and it premiered be anxious September 28, 2010,^[21] as put a stop to of the 2010–11 season.^[22]

On Possibly will 13, 2011, No Ordinary Family was cancelled after one spell 1 with only 20 episodes filmed.

In 2011, she was murky in the new CBS Video receiver show A Gifted Man. From the beginning a co-star,^[23] she was late downgraded to a recurring put it on. A Gifted Man was off by CBS in May 2012 after one season of 16 episodes.

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She was cast in the television disc Ricochet as Elise Laird.^[24] Benz played the lead female separate, Mayor Amanda Rosewater, in significance science fiction series Defiance^[25] give orders to also starred in the vinyl Supremacy^[26] and the unaired Boob tube pilot Middle Ages.

In 2015, Benz landed a recurring separate in the CBS series Hawaii Five-O, playing the latest band member and Chin Ho's beau, Abby Dunn. She also marked in the television film Charming Christmas.

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

Personal life

Benz married thespian John Kassir on May 30, 1998.

She filed for break-up in December 2007.^[27]

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

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Awards and nominations

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