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1 MAY 1972 JULIE BENZ BORN

Julie Benz

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Julie Benz
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Benz at PaleyFest 2010's Dexter night at the Saban Theatre on March 4, 2010
BornJulie M. Benz
May 1, 1972 (age 44)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Alma materNew York University
OccupationActress
Years active1990–present
Spouse(s)John Kassir (m. 1998–2007)
Rich Orosco (m. 2012)
Julie M. Benz (born May 1, 1972) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Darla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (1997–2004) and Rita Bennett on Dexter (2006–2010), for which she won the 2006 Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress and the 2009 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has also starred on the series Roswell (1999–2000), Desperate Housewives (2010), No Ordinary Family (2010–2011), A Gifted Man (2011–2012), Defiance (2013–2015) and Hawaii Five-0 (2015–present). Her film roles include Jawbreaker (1999), The Brothers (2001), Rambo, Saw V and Punisher: War Zone (all 2008), The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) and Bedrooms (2010).

Early life[edit]

Benz was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,[1] grew up in Murrysville, and graduated from Franklin Regional High School.[2] Her mother, Joanne Marie (née Seemiller), was a figure skater, and her father, George Benz, Jr., is a surgeon in Pittsburgh.[3] The family settled in nearby Murrysville when Benz was two, and she started ice skating when she was three.[4] She competed in the 1988 U.S. Championships in junior ice dancing with her skating partner David Schilling, and finished in 13th place.[5][6] Her older brother and sister, Jeffrey and Jennifer, were the 1987 U.S. Junior Champions in ice dancing and competed internationally. When Benz was 14, she suffered a stress fracture in her right leg and had to take time off.[2]

Career[edit]

At age 15, Benz was told by an acting coach that she would never succeed as an actress. According to Benz, "I remember the teacher telling me I should not even try acting. I still have the report card where she was like, 'You will never be an actor. Your voice is horrible.' That was the best thing that ever happened to me because I was like, 'I'll show you'."[7] By 1989, with her figure skating career over, Benz became involved in local theater and was cast in the play Street Law. Her first movie role was a small speaking part in "The Black Cat" segment of the Dario Argento/George A. Romero horror movie Two Evil Eyes (1990).[8] A year later, she was cast in the TV show Hi Honey, I'm Home! (1991),[6] which was canceled after two seasons.
After graduating from high school, Benz studied acting at New York University. After graduating from NYU in 1993,[2] she moved to Los Angeles. Two weeks after her move, she obtained a bit part in a 1994 episode of Married... with Children, playing a girl who wanted to lose her virginity to Bud Bundy.[7] Her subsequent roles included an unaired Aaron Spelling television pilot Crosstown Traffic. She starred in another unaired TV pilot called Empire in 1995. Her other TV shows included Hang Time, High Tide, Step by Step, and Boy Meets World, plus a small role in the TV movie The Barefoot Executive. She had an uncredited role in Black Sheep and appearances in Diagnosis: Murder, Sliders, and The Single Guy. She played Christy in the TV movie Hearts Adrift and a lead role as Julie Falcon inDarkdrive.
In 1996, Benz auditioned for the role of Buffy Summers for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer but lost the role to Sarah Michelle Gellar. However, she was offered the small role of the vampire Darla, in the pilot episode. Her performance was so well-received that her part was expanded to a few more episodes.
The role helped launch her career. She appeared in more TV shows such as The Big Easy and Fame L.A., along with a small role as a receptionist in the movie As Good as It Gets (1997). She starred in the short spoof film Eating Las Vegas and the unaired TV pilotVeronica's Video, had a small uncredited role in the TV movie A Walton Easter, and a small role in Inventing the Abbotts. In 1998, she had a recurring role as Joplin Russell in the TV show Ask Harriet (though the show was canceled and only two of her appearances aired), then guest-starred on Conrad Bloom and The King of Queens. She made two movies, the dark comedy Jawbreaker and Dirt Merchant, before landing a lead role in the TV series Payne, an American remake of the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. It was cancelled after eight episodes had aired. Benz played undercover FBI Special Unit agent Kathleen Topolsky on Roswell during its first season, starred in the TV movie Satan's School for Girls (2000), the unaired TV pilot Good Guys/Bad Guys, and had a lead role in the horror movie parody Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth.
Benz at the 2012 Comic-Con in San Diego, California
Benz reprised her role as Darla in 2000 for the Buffy spin-off series Angel, appearing in every season for at least one episode. She was the only white actor featured in the principal cast of the romantic comedy The Brothers (2001). She was a guest host for the TV show Rendez-View. She was cast as Ellie Sparks in Glory Days and appeared in the unaired pilot; however, she left the show. She guest starred on She Spies and was in the featured cast for the mini-seriesTaken.[9] She did various voices for the video game Hot Shots Golf Fore!, appeared in the short film The Midget Stays in the Picture, and took over the role of Ursula for George of the Jungle 2.
Benz appeared in Peacemakers, Coupling, NCIS, and Oliver Beene. She landed the lead role of Annie Garrett in the Hallmark TV movie The Long Shot,[10] provided the voice of Miranda Keyes for the video game Halo 2,[11] and played the lead role of Danielle in Bad Girls from Valley High (a film shot in 2000 under the title A Fate Totally Worse Than Death) which was released on DVD in 2005. She had a small role in the critically acclaimed TV movie Lackawanna Blues. In the Sci-Fi Channel original film Locusts: The 8th Plague, she played the lead female role Vicky. She also appeared in the straight-to-DVD movie 8mm 2 as Lynn. The film was originally called The Velvet Side of Hell and was not supposed to be a sequel to 8MM. Benz appeared in episodes of Supernatural, CSI: Miami, Law & Order, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She had a supporting role in the Swedish independent movie Kill Your Darlings (2006), a lead role in theLifetime movie Circle of Friends (2006), and joined the cast of TV show Dexter as Rita Bennett.[12] Benz played a lead role in the fifth film of the popular horror franchise, Saw V, as Brit, a real estate developer who is one of Jigsaw's five victims. She had a supporting role in Punisher: War Zone as Angela. Benz co-starred with Sylvester Stallone in Rambo (2008), the fourth film of the series.
She played the title role in the short film Kidnapping Caitlynn, written by her close friend Jenny Mollen, which premiered at the Vail Film Festival 2009 and was released online April 6, 2009.[13] She starred in the Lifetime movie Held Hostageas Michelle Estey.[14] in July. She also starred in the Hallmark Channel movie Uncorked (2009)[15] as Johnny Prentiss[16] which premiered in the UK in July 2009. She is the lead female character Special Agent Eunice Bloom in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day which had a limited release on October 30, 2009, and was released on DVD March 9, 2010. She has been cast in another indie film called Bedrooms as Anna.[17] She played Frankie in the 2011 filmAnswers to Nothing.
Benz appeared on The Soup with Joel McHale. Benz next took a recurring role on Desperate Housewives as Robin Gallagher, a stripper with a heart of gold and a master's degree in education who gets offered the chance to transition into a more legitimate career.[18] The character of Robin is further developed when the audience discovers she is a lesbian and begins an affair with housewife Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany).[19] After the Season 4 finale of Dexter, she returned for the Season 5 premiere.[20]
In early 2010, ABC announced that Benz had landed a lead role as Stephanie Powell, in the network's drama pilot No Ordinary Family.[21] Production of the series commenced the following May and it premiered on September 28, 2010,[22] as part of the 2010–11 season.[23] On May 13, 2011, No Ordinary Family was canceled after one season with only twenty episodes filmed. In 2011, she was cast in the new CBS TV show A Gifted Man. She was originally a co-star[24] but was downgraded to recurring. A Gifted Man was canceled by CBS in May 2012 after one season of 16 episodes. She was cast in TV movie Ricochet as Elise Laird.[25] Benz plays the lead female role, Mayor Amanda Rosewater, in the science fiction series Defiance[26] and also stars in the indie movie Supremacy.[27] and the unaired TV pilot Middle Ages.[28]

Personal life[edit]

Benz married actor John Kassir on May 30, 1998 and filed for divorce in December 2007.[29][30] In 2011, she became engaged to Rich Orosco, a partner at B360 Studios,[31] and they married on May 5, 2012.[32]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

YearTitleRoleNotes
1990Two Evil EyesBettySegment: "The Black Cat"
1996Black SheepWomanUncredited[citation needed]
1996DarkdriveJulie Falcon
1997Eating Las VegasSheilaShort film
1997Inventing the AbbottsCo-ed
1997As Good as It GetsReceptionist
1999JawbreakerMarcie Fox
1999Dirt MerchantAngie
2000Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the ThirteenthBarbara PrimesuspectVideo
2000Bad Girls from Valley HighDanielle
2001The BrothersJesse Caldwell
2003The Midget Stays in the PictureA-List ActressShort film
2003George of the Jungle 2Ursula Stanhope, Queen of the JungleVideo
20058mm 2LynnVideo
2006Kill Your DarlingsKatherine
2008RamboSarah Miller
2008Saw VBrit Steddison
2008Punisher: War ZoneAngela Donatelli
2009Kidnapping CaitlynnCaitlynnShort film
2009The Boondock Saints II: All Saints DayEunice Bloom
2010BedroomsAnna
2011RicochetElise Laird
2011Answers to NothingFrankie
2014SupremacyKristen
2015CircleWife
2016HavenhurstJackie

Television[edit]

YearTitleRoleNotes
1991–1992Hi Honey, I'm Home!Babs Nielson14 episodes
1994Married... with ChildrenSaschaEpisode: "Field of Screams"
1995The Barefoot ExecutiveSexy WomanTV movie remake
1995Crosstown TrafficUnknown roleUnaired pilot[citation needed]
1995EmpireChristine LambertUnaired pilot[citation needed]
1995Hang TimeLinda CantrellEpisode: "Earl Makes the Grade"
1995High TideJoanna CraigEpisode: "Sea No Evil"
1995Step by StepTawnyEpisode: "The Wall"
1996Boy Meets WorldBiancaEpisode: "City Slackers"
1996Hearts AdriftChristyMovie
1996Diagnosis: MurderJulie MillerEpisode: "Murder on Thin Ice"
1996SlidersJenny MichenerEpisode: "The Electric Twister Acid Test"
1996The Single GuyCranberries GirlEpisode: "Love Train"
1997Veronica's VideoHeidiUnaired pilot[citation needed]
1997A Walton EasterJeannieUncredited[citation needed]
1997The Big EasyRoxanneEpisode: "BeGirled"
1997Fame L.A.VanessaEpisode: "The Beat Goes On"
1997–2000Buffy the Vampire SlayerDarla5 episodes
1998Ask HarrietJoplin Russell7 episodes
1998Conrad BloomJulieEpisode: "The Rebound Guy"
1999PayneBreeze O'Rourke9 episodes
1999The King of QueensJulie PattersonEpisode: "Train Wreck"
1999–2000RoswellKathleen Topolsky7 episodes
2000Satan's School for GirlsAlison KingsleyMovie
2000Good Guys/Bad GuysUnknown roleUnaired pilot[citation needed]
2000–2004AngelDarla20 episodes
2002Glory DaysEllie SparksUnaired pilot[citation needed]
2002TakenKate Keyes2 episodes
2002She SpiesElaineEpisode: "Spies vs. Spy"
2002PeacemakersMiranda BlanchardEpisode: "The Witness"
2002CouplingAmandaEpisode: "Decatur Guy"
2004The Long Shot: Believe in CourageAnnie GarrettMovie
2004NCISDenise JohnsonEpisode: "A Weak Link"
2004Oliver BeeneCigarette GirlEpisode: "Idol Chatter"
2005Locusts: The 8th PlagueVickyMovie
2005Lackawanna BluesLauraMovie
2006SupernaturalLayla RourkeEpisode: "Faith"
2006CSI: MiamiHayley GordonEpisode: "Deviant"
2006CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationHeidi WolffEpisode: "Time of Your Death"
2006Circle of FriendsMaggieMovie
2006–2010DexterRita Bennett49 episodes
Won – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2007Law & OrderDawn SterlingEpisode: "Church"
2009Held HostageMichelle EsteyMovie
2009UncorkedJohnny PrentissMovie
2010Desperate HousewivesRobin Gallagher5 episodes
2010–2011No Ordinary FamilyStephanie PowellMain role (20 episodes)
2011Royal PainsElyseEpisode: "An Apple a Day"
2011–2012A Gifted ManChristina HoltRecurring; 7 episodes
2012Middle AgesUnknown roleUnaired pilot[citation needed]
2013Sole CustodyZoeyMovie
2013Taken: The Search for Sophie ParkerStevie ParkerMovie
2013–2015DefianceMayor Amanda RosewaterMain role (39 episodes)
2015Charming ChristmasMeredithTV movie
2015–presentHawaii Five-0Inspector Abby DunnRecurring
Video Games
YearTitleRoleNotes
2003Everybody's Golf 4 (a.k.a. Hot Shots Golf Fore!)Various voices
2004Halo 2Miranda Keyes
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