Julie Benz
Date of Birth
1 May 1972, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Height
5' 4" (1.63 m)
Mini Biography
Julie Benz was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on May 1, 1972. Julie's father is a Pittsburgh surgeon and her mother is a figure ice skater. The family settled in nearby Murrysville, when Julie was two, and she started ice skating at age three. She competed in the 1988 U.S. Championships in junior ice dancing with her partner David Schilling, coming in 13th. Her older brother and sister, Jeffrey and Jennifer, were in the 1987 U.S. Junior Champions in ice dancing and competed internationally. When Julie was 14, she had a bad stress fracture and had to take time off.
By 1989, with her figure skating career over, Julie turned to acting and got involved in the local theater where she got a role in the play "Street Law". Her first movie role was a small, credited, speaking part in in the Black Cat episode in the Dario Argento/George A. Romero co-direction horror flick, Two Evil Eyes (1990) playing in one scene alongside Harvey Keitel. A year later, she got a role on a TV show called "Hi Honey, I'm Home" (1991).
After graduating from high school, Julie entered New York University to study acting there. After graduation, Julie moved to Los Angeles to further pursue her career and landed some small roles in movies and TV shows including a guest appearance on "Married with Children" (1987) and in the Aaron Spelling TV pilot Crosstown Traffic (1995) (TV).
In 1996, Julie auditioned for the role of "Buffy" in the series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997), but lost out to Sarah Michelle Gellar. However, she was offered a small role as a vampire girl in which she did such a good job that her part was expanded to a few more episodes in playing the vampire "Darla". With that, Julie Benz's career had finally taken off. She reprised her role as "Darla" in the Buffy spin-off series "Angel" (1999) for two years and has had several small roles in various film productions. She also had a small, but memorable, role playing a receptionist in the movie As Good as It Gets (1997).
Even after her role on "Angel" (1999) wrapped up, Julie continued to find work on television in playing many guest staring roles in numerous popular TV shows from "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000), to "Supernatural" (2005), to playing the lead and supporting roles in various made-for-TV movies. Most recently, she landed another notable role on the TV-cable series "Dexter" (2006) playing "Rita", a troubled divorc?e and lover of the title character played by Michael C. Hall. Benz played a leading role in the tv series "No Ordinary Family" (2010) playing Stephanie Powell along with actors Michael Chiklis, Kay Panabaker, Jimmy Bennett, Autumn Reeser, Romany Malco, and Stephen Collins.
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19th November 2009, 00:30
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Re: [10/17/09] Julie Benz @ arrives at Spike TV's Scream 2009 x12
Very nice dress. Thanks !
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19th November 2009, 13:05
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[11/18/09] Julie Benz @ US Weekly's Hot Hollywood 2009 - x8
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5th December 2009, 12:24
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20th December 2009, 13:36
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[12/18/09] Julie Benz @ Hollyscoop takes over MI6 x2
Julie Benz
Hollyscoop takes over MI6, held at Club MI6 in West Hollywood
Los Angeles, California - 18.12.09
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23rd December 2009, 01:29
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CBS, CW & Showtime Press Tour Stars Party, 18 Jul 2008
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23rd December 2009, 15:06
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Lionsgate World Premiere of "Rambo" in Las Vegas, 24 Jan 2008
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23rd December 2009, 18:10
#82
Premiere Of Universal Pictures' "The Incredible Hulk", 08 Jun 2008
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24th December 2009, 18:04
#83
US Weekly's Hot Hollywood 2009, 18 Nov 2009
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24th December 2009, 18:18
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CBS TCA Party, 03 Aug 2009
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18th January 2010, 14:35
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21st January 2010, 01:10
#86
Access Hollywood "Stuff You Must..." Lounge, 16 Jan 2010
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24th January 2010, 04:32
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24th January 2010, 12:52
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24th January 2010, 13:03
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Re: [01/23/10] Julie Benz @ 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards x11
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5th March 2010, 18:17
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