Julie Benz
Birthplace : Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Birthday : 5-1-1972
Most Recent Role : Rita Bennett on Dexter TV show
Gender : Female
Height : 5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
Julie Benz‘s father is a well respected surgeon in Pittsburgh, in fact, she belongs to a whole family of doctors. Naturally, she was supposed to be a doctor instead of an Ice skater and an actress. She decided not to be an actor after watching a 6 hours long hemorrhoid surgery on videotape.
Julie competed in the 1988 U.S. Championships in junior ice dancing with David Schilling, placing 13th.
Her skating ended when she had a bad leg fracture at the age of 16. After that, she got involved in modeling and later moved to New York for acting work.
She took acting classes at NYC and has been with her manager, Vincent Cirrincione for 14 years.
She made her film debut in 1990 with a small role in the film ‘Due occhi diabolici’. In 1991, she got a role on a TV show ‘Hi Honey, I’m Home’. In 1997, she appeared in the movie ‘As Good as it gets’ as a receptionist. That same year, she also started her role as Darla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She eventually went on to Buffy’s spin-off show, Angel. She is most memorable for her character Darla in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Her Theater work includes ‘Romeo and Juliet’, ‘To Sleep’, ‘On The Town’, ‘Grease’, ‘The Proposal’. She guest starred on various popular TV shows including ‘CSI- Crime Scene Investigation’, ‘Supernatural’.
In 1998, Julie married actor and comedian Jon Kassir who is better known as the voice of the “Crypt Keeper” from HBO’s Tales From the Crypt. She played ‘Rita’ on ‘Dexter’, who is Dexter Morgan’s girlfriend.