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Julie Benz (born
May 1, 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American
actress. Benz grew up in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, and
graduated from Franklin Regional High School in 1991.
She later graduated from New York University. Initially,
Benz followed her mother and older siblings, Jeffrey and
Jennifer, into the figure skating field, and competed in
the 1988 US Junior Ice Skating Championship. Benz gave
up her pursuit of ice skating after an accident.
Benz achieved her first acting role in a local play in
1989. She is best known[citation needed] for playing the
vampire Darla in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
where she was the first character seen on screen and
spoke the first line, and later in the spin-off series,
Angel. She has acted in such films as Jawbreaker and As
Good as It Gets.
A pretty blonde performer with a soulful look and a
whispery voice, Julie Benz started out not on stage, but
on ice, competing on the national level and ranked 13th
in ice dancing, following the lead of her older
siblings, a pair of ice dancing champions. Injury led to
the end of her skating career but she soon switched
modes to acting, starting out in community theater and
landing her first film role in Dario Argento's "Two
Evil Eyes" in 1990. The following year she landed
her first regular series role, playing the daughter in a
1950s sitcom family that has been relocated to 1990s
suburbia on the quirky "Hi Honey, I'm Home"
(aired on ABC and Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1992).
Benz filled out the 90s with guest shots on such series
as Fox's "Married... With Children" (1994) and
"Sliders" (1996), ABC's "Boy Meets
World" and CBS' "Diagnosis Murder" (both
also 1996), before originating the role of vampire Darla
on the popular supernatural series "Buffy, the
Vampire Slayer" (The WB) in 1997. Her one-off guest
shot was turned into a recurring role, with Darla even
making the jump to the spin-off "Angel" in
2000, with a recurring role that became regular
beginning in the fall of 2001; she would continue to
appear sporadically on the series through its final
season in 2004. A smattering of fan sites devoted to
Benz's delightfully sinister Darla popped up on the
Internet, with audiences responding well to the actress'
take on the very youthful looking 400-year-old vampire
whose main occupation is torturing David Boreanaz's
eponymous bloodsucker cursed with a conscience. Her
devilishly seductive performance also made her a
favorite featured celebrity model in such
"laddie" magazines as Maxim and FHM.
With such forgettable short-lived sitcoms as Fox's
"Ask Harriet" (1998) and NBC's
"Payne" (1999) under her belt, Benz seemed to
have better luck with supernatural TV drama with a
longer running recurring stint on The WB's
"Roswell" from 1999-2000 as well as a featured
role in the ABC TV-movie remake "Satan's School for
Girls" (2000) to her credit.
Benz has continued to make inroads on the big screen as
well, and has proved a versatile and capable player,
following up her 1990 debut with 1997's "Inventing
the Abbotts". That same year she had a small but
very memorable role in "As Good As It Gets",
playing a receptionist who bears the brunt of Melvin
Udall (Jack Nicholson)'s chauvinism when she complements
his writing. That scene, featured in the trailer and
referred to in nearly every promotion or discussion of
the film, helped to raise the actress' profile
considerably. The 1998 parody short "Eating Las
Vegas" was a much smaller venture, though it
showcased the actress with a larger role. The 1999 black
comedy "Jawbreaker" co-starred Benz as a one
of a group of popular high school students whose prank
goes horribly awry, while 2000's "Shriek If You
Know What I Did Last Halloween" (aired on USA
Network) saw her returning to the parody genre. In 2001,
she took somewhat more serious work as a supporting
player in "The Brothers", a comedy-drama about
young African-American professionals.
Benz's career received a major boost when she was cast
by producer Steven Spielberg in the highly rated SciFi
Channel miniseries "Taken" (2002), playing the
mother of an angelic-looking child (Dakota Fanning) who
is actually the result of a generations-long series of
extraterrestial experiments that have made her the key
to the alien domination of earth. Next she took over the
role of Ursula in the direct-to-video sequel
"George of the Jungle 2" (2003), then
headlined the telepic "The Long Shot: Believe in
Courage" (2004) as a jilted single mom who rebuilds
her life by becoming involved in showing horsesbefore
appearing the ensemble cast of the HBO adaptation of the
play "Lackawana Blues" (2005).
Benz also provided the voice of Miranda Keyes in the
video game Halo 2, though she will not return to the
role in the upcoming sequel Halo 3 as Bungie wanted to
try a new direction with the Miranda Keyes by giving the
character an accent.
She is married to actor John Kassir. For her role as
Rita Bennett on Dexter, Benz won the 2006 Satellite
Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series,
Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
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