Amber Benson

LIVE BROADCAST: April 14, 2009 @ 9 PM ET PODCAST AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD: Immediately following the live broadcast Become a Radio Happy Hour subscrib er for free ! This week on Dr. Blogstein’s Radio Happy Hour : The sexy Amber Benson is best known for her role as Tara Maclay on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer .   Tara is introduced in the fourth season as a romantic interest for one of the show’s leads, Willow Rosenberg (played by Alyson Hannigan ) and thus was part of one of television’s first lesbian couples to include a series’ major character and the only ... Read Full Story

Amber Benson, who earned a large following for her popular role as Tara Maclay (Alyson Hannigan’s love interest) on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Amber has established a very successful career outside the show: She’s co-written comics, novels and an animated web-series for the BBC with Christopher Golden (widely acclaimed author of the Hellboy novels) and written, produced and directed three feature films, including Drones, to be released later this year. Now she’s launched a very cool trilogy of fantasy novels geared towards young adult females. The first book, Death’s Daughter, was just released via Penguin Books. Death’s Daughter tells the story of Calliope Reaper-Jones, ... Read Full Story

Amber Nicole Benson (born January 8, 1977) is an American actress , writer, film director, and film producer. She is best known for her role as Tara Maclay on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer .As of 2007, Benson resides in Los Angeles, California . She is a former vegetarian .As of March 2009, she was dating Adam Busch, who played Warren on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Read Full Story

Last month, on actress/author Amber Benson ’s official blog (which is named Amber Benson’s Official Blog ), the Buffy the Vampire Slayer star turned writer threw out this challenge to her fans: Okay, I have a favor to ask. If you have read the book I’m schilling (selling, pimping, whatever the Hell you wanna call it), would you post a review of it up on Amazon ? I don’t care if you loved Death’s Daughter or hated it. Just post your thoughts; any and all. It would be very helpful and if I get 85 reviews going over at Amazon (not all by the ... Read Full Story

Despite being laid to rest more than 6 years ago, the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” TV series that spanned 6 seasons, 2 networks, 2 resurrections of the main character, 1 highly acclaimed musical episode and garnered 14 Emmy nominations, is still slaying fans. On June 19th, actress Amber Benson , also known as “Tara”, the lesbian witch who played girlfriend to actress Alyson Hannigan’s “Willow” during the show’s run, appeared at the Pandemonium Books and Games in Cambridge. The 32 year old has gained a cult following in her own right by penning comic tales and fantasy books. Amber Benson Courtesy Patrick Lee This ... Read Full Story