Buffy the Vampire Slayer" creator Joss Whedon may have summed up Juliet Landau best when he called her and her co-star James Marsters. "the Sid and Nancy of the vampire set." Cast as Drusilla, a vampire who along with her blood-sucking lover, Spike (Marsters). is out to slay the slayer.

Landau began her career in Los Angeles and performed all over the world before returning to her home town. She attended the American School in London graduated from the North Carolina Center for the Arts, starting her career as a ballerina. While she may have paid the bills dancing for five years, she had acting on the brain all along. She became a member of the world famous Actor's Studio and started auditioning for parts. Juliet soon found herself acting alongside John Cusak in "The Grifters," Whoopee Goldberg in "Theodore Rex" and the other Landau, Martin, in Tim Burton's "Ed Wood," where she co-starred as Loretta King. Landau Currently lives in Los Angeles.