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Emma Caulfield is an actress who portrayed Anya Jenkins on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series.

Career[]

Caulfield's stage name is a reference to Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. She began her acting career at a young age; in high school while she studied drama, she took parts in plays at the local La Jolla Playhouse and the Old Globe Theatre. She additionally traveled to The American School In England (TASIS) in London, England, to study drama the summer before her senior year. She won the distinguished Excellence in Theatre Arts award at her high school. After graduating from the La Jolla Country Day School, she attended San Francisco State University to study Psychology, but she left halfway through her freshman year.

Caulfield's first notable role was as Brandon Walsh's girlfriend, Susan Keats, on Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1995. She appeared for thirty episodes in the series before departing in 1996. In 1998, Emma starred in her most famous role to date, as Anya Jenkins on The WB's hit show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In 2003, Emma landed her first lead role in the horror movie Darkness Falls, which debuted at number one in the U.S. box office. In 2004, she appeared on Monk as Meredith Preminger in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf". Caulfield also starred in the satire Bandwagon, playing a fictionalized and unflattering version of herself as a superficial, arrogant actress whose career is imploding. It screened at various festivals, although it has not been picked up for distribution.

Caulfield is also the co-author of the webcomic Contropussy. She starred in the independent feature film TiMER, released May 2009. In 2010, Caulfield posted her 2004 independent movie Bandwagon, which was never publicly released, online in ten parts turning it into a webseries. She starred as the lead role in the FunnyOrDie short film Don't Panic, It's Organic. In 2011, a season 2 of Bandwagon began.

In 2012–2013, Caulfield ran her own Youtube channel called Essnemma, where she posted regular vlogs and answered questions posted on her Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.

Caulfield made a guest appearance on the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time as the Blind Witch from the fairy tale Hansel & Gretel. She guest-starred in the second season of the web series Husbands. She also portrayed the governmental agent Cameron Chase in the DC Universe TV show Supergirl.

Caulfield attended the Entertainment Weekly Cast Reunions: Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 2019. In 2021, she portrayed Sarah Proctor/Dottie Jones in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ original miniseries, WandaVision.

In 2023, Caulfield returned as Anya in the Audible audio series Slayers: A Buffyverse Story.

Buffyverse credits[]

Episodes[]

Caulfield appeared in a total of 81 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the ex-vengeance demon Anya Jenkins, including when the "Child of Words" possessed Anya in one episode:

She also acted in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 6 promos as Anya.

Caulfield voice acted in the nine episodes of Slayers: A Buffyverse Story, portraying Anya from an alternative reality, Anyanka the vengeance demon, and Jasper the puppy.

Featurettes[]

Caulfield also appears in the following featurettes:

Gallery[]

Behind the scenes for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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