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| Juliet Landau was born and raised in Southern California. She is the daughter of actress Barbara Bain and Academy Award winner Martin Landau. She was raised constantly around the show business. She studied as an actress and a ballerina, performing with the Southern California Ballet and Los Angeles Dance companies. Getting her start in theater, she had roles in plays such as, Uncommon Women and Others, The Pushcart Peddlers, Billy Irish, and We're Talking Today Here. She went to school at The American School in London to go on and graduate from the North Carolina School for the Arts. Her parents discouraged her from acting in the beginning but were very supportive when she decided that is what she wanted to do with her life. She guest-starred on many television shows to go on to her film debut in Stephen Frears' 1990 comedy, The Grifters, playing Angelica Houston's character, Lily as a young girl. Her first chance to work with her father was in Tim Burton's Ed Wood. A movie about America's worst filmmaker. Martin, her father, played Bela Lugosi which he received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Juliet prepared for her role as a B movie actress by researching everything she could on her character as well as they type of person she was to portray. Her most recent work was in Ravenger, a 1997 film. She portrayed a beautiful "Spare" or human created to provide organs to those in need. She admits being attracted to the role because of the character. She quotes, "I'd been playing so many sophisticated roles, that I just jumped at the chance to play a character who's discovering everything for the first time." |
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