Juliet Landau is an actress, director, producer and writer. As an actress, highlights include her role as "Drusilla" on
Joss Whedon 's
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) & spin-off
Angel (1999), and co-starring in
Tim Burton's
Ed Wood (1994) as "Loretta King". She played the recurring role of Rita Tedesco on Amazon's number one series,
Bosch (2014) in season 5. She's recurring as "Cordelia" on TNT's
Claws (2017) .
Juliet just helmed her visionary feature film directorial debut,
A Place Among the Dead (2020). Modern Films is distributing it worldwide. Release date is Nov, 9th, 2020. Starring
Juliet Landau with
Gary Oldman,
Ron Perlman,
Robert Patrick,
Lance Henriksen,
Joss Whedon and
Anne Rice (appearing for the first time ever in a movie).
Also in the works and partially completed is
The Undead Series (2016). Think
Jerry Seinfeld's
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012)... This is Vampires in Coffins Getting Blood!... The only series ever to gather the A-list of the genre together. Every one of the talented artists in
A Place Among the Dead (2020) came back to participate in her series, as did
Tim Burton,
Willem Dafoe and many other notables.
Other acting work includes starring opposite
Whoopi Goldberg in
Theodore Rex (1995) as well as starring in over 20 other films, appearing in many more, guest-starring frequently on television, extensive voiceover work in features, tv, video games and garnering rave reviews for her roles in the theater.
Juliet's previous directorial efforts include two short subjects.
Take Flight: Gary Oldman Directs Chutzpah (2009). explored Gary Oldman's creative process and was produced by Gary. Dream Out Loud featured interviews with
Guillermo del Toro,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and
Rian Johnson. Both projects were produced with her husband
Deverill Weekes, under the
Miss Juliet Productions banner.
Landau co-wrote two issues of the
Angel (1999) comic book for
IDW Publishing . She is now penning the companion coffee table book to
The Undead Series (2016) called Book Of The Undead.