Emma Caulfield played ex-vengeance demon Anya. She was born on April 8, 1973, and her birth surname was Emma Chukker. She is half German on her father’s side and her mother is a singer who is Irish-American. Emma’s older sister, Samantha Killebrew, is a department store manager in San Diego. Emma was briefly married but the relationship didn’t last and the couple divorced. Emma had a couple of acting roles before Buffy, most notably as Brandon’s girlfriend Susan on Beverly Hills, 90210. After her early acting days, Emma decided to go to San Francisco State University and start a degree in Psychology. She was then offered the part of Anya in Buffy. In 2004, Emma joined up again with her ex-Beverley Hills 90210 co star Jason Priestly in the TV movie I Want to Marry Ryan Banks. She starred in the film Darkness Falls, alongside Chaney Kley Minnis (who played Harmony’s minion Brad in 5.02 Real Me).
Emma starred in, and was co-executive producer of, the movie Bandwagon in 2004. The movie is a tongue-in-cheek look at Emma’s efforts post-Buffy (though Emma plays an exaggerated version of herself). The movie also featured Buffy people Joss Whedon, David Fury and Tom Lenk (Andrew Wells). Bandwagon won the Maverick award at the 2004 Newport Beach Film Festival.
Both Emma and Robia LaMorte (Jenny Calendar) played girlfriends of Jason Priestley on Beverley Hills 90210. Priestley also played Jack in Eliza Dushku’s TV show Tru Calling.
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Jess on July 31st, 2005 at 10:52 am
Anya and Andrew were definitely one of the best comedy pairings on the show.
Rozzi on August 5th, 2005 at 12:25 pm
All hail Andrew and Anya the best line comin up…
Anya- “You’ve been in here for 30 minutes what are you doing?”
Andrew- “Entertaining and Educationg”
Anya- “Why can’t you just masturbate like the rest of us?”
Storyteller
Saintsaucey on August 23rd, 2005 at 9:17 am
That line was awsome
Dawn on November 17th, 2005 at 1:29 am
Emma is awesome…
a great actress…
a lot of talent…
I love emma
AnyaRocks on December 31st, 2005 at 11:01 pm
Has anyone seen her in I Want To Marry Ryan Banks or Bandwagon. I really wanna see them.
ormaybemidgets on December 31st, 2005 at 11:55 pm
I didn’t see I Want To Marry Ryan Banks but I know ABCFamily plays it sometimes.
I’m pretty sure that Bandwagon isn’t out. I know they were looking to do a DVD release much like Chance did, but last I heard they haven’t been able to go through with it.