Amber Nicole Benson played shy Wiccan Tara Maclay. Amber was born in Birmingham, Alabama on January 8, 1977. She started acting when she was a teenager. She studied dancing and singing and did amateur community theatre. Her family moved to Los Angeles to help her career, and she has since had a great deal of steady work. She starred in Imaginary Crimes, Can’t Hardly Wait (alongside Seth Green who played Oz) and Bye Bye Love as the best friend of Eliza Dushku (who plays Faith). Amber wrote and directed a movie called Chance in 2001 when she was just 24. It starred Amber, James Marsters (Spike), Andy Hallett (Lorne in Angel) and Tressa DiFiglia (Nicholas Brenson’s wife). Amber co-wrote a comic book about Willow and Tara, and wrote a comic strip called ‘The Innocent’ for Joss Whedon’s Tales of the Slayers. Amber has also written an on-line story called Ghosts of Albion for the BBC cult website.
Since leaving Buffy, Amber has played Maggie in Race You to the Bottom, Barbie in Intermedio and Traci in Latter Days. She has also been in episodes of Cold Case and The Inside. Amber also starred in a film with Sin City’s Nick Stahl, Tru Calling’s Derek Hamilton and American Pie’s Eddie Kaye Thomas called Taboo. She is currently dating Adam Busch, who played Warren in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Played: Tara Maclay
Date of birth: January 8, 1977
Appeared in: Hush, A New Man, The I in Team, Goodbye, Iowa, This Year's Girl, Who Are You?, Superstar, Where the Wild Things Are, New Moon Rising, The Yoko Factor, Primeval, Restless, Buffy vs Dracula, Real Me, Out of My Mind, No Place Like Home, Family, Shadow, Listening to Fear, Triangle, Checkpoint, Blood Ties, Crush, I Was Made to Love You, The Body, Forever, Intervention, Tough Love, Spiral, The Weight of the World, The Gift, Bargaining (Part 1), Bargaining (Part 2), After Life, Flooded, Life Serial, All the Way, Once More, With Feeling, Tabula Rasa, Smashed, Wrecked, Gone, Doublemeat Palace, Dead Things, Older and Far Away, As You Were, Hell's Bells, Entropy, Seeing Red, Villains