Julie Benz

Julie Benz was born on May 01, 1972 in USA. Julie Benz's big-screen debut came with Two Evil Eyes directed by Dario Argento in 1990. Julie Benz is known for Love, Victor directed by Jason Ensler, Michael Cimino stars as Victor Salazar and Rachel Hilson as Mia Brooks. Julie Benz has got 3 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Julie Benz achieved is Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. The upcoming new movie Julie Benz plays is Gold Digger Killer which will be released on Jun 13, 2021.

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 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 on in the Black Cat episode in the Dario Argento/George A. Romero co-direction horror flick, Deux yeux maléfiques (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 Mariés, deux enfants (1987) and in the Aaron Spelling TV pilot Crosstown Traffic (1995).In 1996, Julie auditioned for the role of "Buffy" in the series Buffy contre les vampires (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 Pour le pire et pour le meilleur (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 Les Experts (2000), to Supernatural (2005), to playing the lead and supporting roles in various made-for-TV movies. She landed another notable role on the TV-cable series Dexter (2006) playing "Rita", a troubled divorcée 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.In 2013, she had the starring role in the sci-fi / fantasy breakout hit show Defiance (2013).