A pretty blonde performer with a soulful look and a whispery voice, Julie Benz started out not on stage, but on ice, competing on the national level and ranked 13th in ice dancing, following the lead of her older siblings, a pair of ice dancing champions. Injury led to the end of her skating career but she soon switched modes to acting, starting out in community theater and landing her first film role in Dario Argento's "Two Evil Eyes" in 1990. The following year she landed her first regular series role, playing the daughter in a 1950s sitcom family that has been relocated to 1990s suburbia on
