Julie Benz

About Julie Benz

Julie Benz (born May 1, 1972) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Darla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (1997–2004), and as Rita Bennett on Dexter (2006–2010), for which she won the 2006 Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress and the 2009 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Benz has also starred in the television series Roswell (1999–2000), Desperate Housewives (2010), No Ordinary Family (2010–2011), A Gifted Man (2011–2012), Defiance (2013–2015), Hawaii Five-0 (2015–2017), Training Day (2017) and Love, Victor (2021).

Her film credits include Jawbreaker (1999), The Brothers (2001), Rambo (2008), Saw V (2008), Punisher: War Zone (2008), and The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009).

She was Darla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, and Rita Bennett-Morgan on Dexter, for which she won the 2006 Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress. She then went on to star in the family super hero drama No Ordinary Family (2010-2011) where her costar Autumn Reeser went on to have her first nude scene in The Big Bang during the same year as the shows cancellation. Julie Benz stared in the sci-fi series Defiance until it was canceled.

Julie Benz has had several nude scenes, her first of which was in the 1996 Film Darkdrive where she is seen having sex with a guy, showing her boobs and ass, her second nude scene was in the 1997 spoof of the Oscar-winning drama Leaving Las Vegas, called Eating Las Vegas where she's in a bathing suit on top of a fat guy while she drinks something messy, then he pulls her swimming top down to reveal her boobs, and her third was in several episodes of Showtime's very popular TV series Dexter, where she shows her ass in multiple episodes, and even has a nip slip, during her role in Dexter.