Juliet Landau

Juliet Landau is one of those performers I think of as defined by a single unforgettable character, Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, even though her range is far wider. That mad, sing-song vampire remains a masterclass in making menace feel fragile and almost pitiable. What surprises people is the trained ballerina underneath; that dancer's control over body and voice is exactly what made Drusilla so eerily precise. Her turn as Loretta King in Tim Burton's Ed Wood shows the same eye for off-kilter, period-specific texture. She earned that Saturn nomination, and to me she remains a cult-favorite character actor in the best sense.

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Name (English)

Juliet Landau

Name (Japanese)

ジュリエット・ランドー

Reading

じゅりえっと・らんどー

Born

March 30, 1965 (age 61)

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

ballet dancer / film actor / television actor / stage actor / voice actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Snake

• Official sitehttp://julietlandau.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/julietlandau
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet%20Landau
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q241692

Tags

• California
• ballet dancer
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.