Juliet Landau | Actor | Director | Gary Oldman

Juliet Landau Juliet co-starred in Tim Burton’s ED WOOD as Loretta King and starred opposite Whoopi Goldberg in New Line Cinema’s THEODORE REX.

She created the role of Drusilla on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, appearing on BUFFY and ANGEL over the course of six seasons. She just completed playing Russian villainess Nataliya Chernov in the adorable kid’s movie, MONSTER MUTT, created and produced by 4X Oscar-winning Greg Canom’s Drac Studios

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Rex Sikes’ Movie Beat chats with actor/director Juliet Landau

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Juliet directed the short documentary TAKE FLIGHT about and for Gary Oldman, co-directed/ appeared in Godhead’s HERO music video and co-wrote two issues of the ANGEL comic book about Drusilla.

Lead roles in Independents include: THE YELLOW WALLPAPER, DARKNESS VISIBLE, HACK, TOOLBOX MURDERS, REPOSSESSED, CARLO’S WAKE, LIFE AMONG THE CANNIBALS, RAVAGER, DIRECT HIT, CITIZENS and a co-starring turn in Henry Jaglom’s GOING SHOPPING.

TV guest appearances include: MILLENNIUM, LA FEMME NIKITA, STRONG MEDICINE, a starring role in the Lifetime movie REUNION and a project directed by Jake Scott for HBO.
She has lent her voice to various characters on the popular animated series’ JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED and BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE as well as on BIOSHOCK 1 and 2, STAR WARS THE OLD REPUBLIC and BEN 10 video games. She voiced Labella in GREEN LANTERN: FIRST FLIGHT.

Juliet has worked extensively in the theater, receiving outstanding reviews for her work every time out. She has written the short film IT’S RAINING CATS AND CATS and will play seven different characters in the project. Juliet has studied acting extensively with the late Susan Peretz and is a member of the Actors Studio. She was a professional ballerina.

OLDMAN, LANDAU TAKE FLIGHT
 
What does esteemed actor/writer/director Gary Oldman, cell phones, a Jewish Hip Hop group named Chutzpah, bikini clad women and a music video all have in common?
 
They are the focus of accomplished actress/writer and debut director Juliet Landau’s funny, cutting-edge short subject documentary, “TAKE FLIGHT”.
 
Check it out here: julietlandaustakeflight.com

Launch date: 2/25/2010
 
Technology icon Nokia, in the hands of talent icon, Gary Oldman (shamelessly drafted by aspiring icons Chutzpah to direct their music video) have collectively raised cell-cam art to soaring heights and given birth to a new trend in the process!
 
Oldman directed the video shot entirely on cell phones and operated one of them as well. He asked Juliet to direct a behind the scenes “making-of” and her take on the ensuing madness bloomed into a documentary that is intoxicating! The cell phone footage affords a truly rare POV. “It’s like being inside his brain…seeing through his eyes,” says Landau, who reveals Oldman in a fascinating light: playful, funny, joyous, fluid, capturing his childlike exploration and an uncharted perspective on the world-renowned artist.  
 
*JULIET LANDAU (TIM BURTON’S ED WOOD, JOSS WHEDON’S BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and ANGEL) is a highly respected actress, writer, producer and burgeoning director.  She is also a former professional ballerina.
 
*GARY OLDMAN (BOOK OF ELI, DARK KNIGHT, HARRY POTTER) has distinguished himself as an actor, writer, producer and director.  His feature directorial and writing debut, Nil by Mouth won an Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film and a BAFTA (a British Academy Award) for Best Original Screenplay.
 
*Because the film centers around cutting-edge technology, highlights the that filmmaking is accessible in a way it has never been before and is perfect for the new frontier of Internet content, Juliet has chosen to make the film available for streaming directly on the films’ website. The website: julietlandaustakeflight.com, which houses the trailer and interviews, has had over 600,000 hits with nearly no promotion.
 
From CASSIE CARPENTER, BACKSTAGE WEST:  “Juliet Landau’s first directing project is innovative and feels surprisingly un-Hollywood.  TAKE FLIGHT is a technologically groundbreaking yet intimate glimpse into Oldman’s creative process. Not only does the audience get to see a goofier, looser, and even wistful side to the actor whose characters are usually borderline psychotic, but because Oldman shot his music video solely on cell phones, much of TAKE FLIGHT is from his own point of view.”
 
From GARY OLDMAN: “Juliet Landau is an exceptional talent! I entrusted Juliet to make a documentary film about me and I am thrilled with the results! TAKE FLIGHT is a special film that shows me in a very different light. I will work with Juliet again without hesitation.”

Rex Steven Sikes is an actor, producer, corporate presenter, entertainer, interviewer and seminar leader. Rex Sike’s Movie Beat interviews filmmakers, and people making it happen on radio, television and the web. (For a complete bio please visit his website.)