Bosch season 5 cast: Who is Juliet Landau? Who plays Rita Tedesco?

Bosch season five was released by Amazon Prime on Friday, April 19 wand featured a few new faces in its cast. Juliet Landau, best known for playing Drusilla in Buffy the Vampire Slayer was one of the new Bosch season five cast members. The Amazon Prime series sees Juliet Landau play Rita Tedesco, a court reporter with a secret.

Who is Bosch season 5 cast member Juliet Landau?

Juliet Landau, 54, is an American actress best known for her work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.

She is the daughter of Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau and his co-star from the 1960s TV version of Mission: Impossible Barbara Bain.

In 2019, she appeared in five episodes of Bosch season five as Rita Tedesco.

Speaking to Nerd Alert News, she described Rita as : “Multi-faceted and unlike any character I’ve played before.

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“She’s living a dual life and hiding a huge part of who she is.

“I became completely obsessed and engrossed in researching the elements of her secret life.

“I started viewing Rita initially from a distance, possibly even judging her, but the universal nature of her desires got under my skin.”

Though she has had a lengthy career in TV and film, she had a less than auspicious start in Hollywood.

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Her first role, in Christian Slater radio movie Pump Up the Volume, was cut from the film.

However, that same year (1990) she made her first film appearance in The Grifters, playing a younger version of Anjelica Housten’s character Lilly.

In the ‘90s, she had roles in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood (alongside her father, who won an Oscar for playing Bela Lugosi in the movie) and Whoopi Gpldberg dinosaur comedy Theodore Rex.

Her defining role came in 1997, when she first played Drusilla in season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The character, the unhinged girlfriend of Spike (James Masters) quickly became a fan favourite, with the character returning in seasons five and seven.

She also played Drusilla in seven episodes of Buffy spin-off Angel.

Since this role, Landau has mostly concentrated on voice work.

Most notably, she has voiced a number of characters on Cartoon Network hit Ben 10.

Bosch season 5 is streaming on Amazon Prime now

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