Emma Caulfield

Emma Caulfield
Cast Member
Biographical Information
Gender:	Female
Birthdate:	April 8, 1973 (1973-04-08)
Birthplace:	San Diego, California, U.S.
Show Information
Portrays:	Blind Witch
Status:	Guest Starring
First appearance:	"True North"
Latest appearance:	"Last Rites"
Relevant Pages

Emma Caulfield is the American actress who portrays the Blind Witch on ABC's Once Upon a Time.

Biography

Emma Chukker, professionally known as Emma Caulfield, was born on April 8, 1973 in San Diego, California to professional singer mother Denise and father Rodney Chukker. She has one sister, Samantha.

She began studying drama in high school at the La Jolla Playhouse and the Old Globe Theatre, which is where she won the distinguished honor of Excellence in Theatre Arts. After college, she picked up her drama studies once again at The American School in Switzerland in London. Although Emma has only worked in the business for a little over nine years, the actress has already accumulated a long and impressive list of credits. After guest-starring on such television series as Burke’s Law, Saved by the Bell: The New Class and Renegade, the actress was cast as Brandon’s journalist girlfriend Susan Keats during the 1995-1996 season of Beverly Hills, 90210. She went on to portray Lorraine Miller for a year on the popular ABC television daytime drama General Hospital.

After General Hospital, Emma decided to take a respite from acting to focus on her education in psychology at San Francisco State University and the University of California at Los Angeles. It was not long after, though, that she was lured back in front of the cameras for a television spot on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The actress made her debut on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the third-season episode The Wish as demon Anyanka turned human Anya Emerson. It was originally a minor role, but the character of Anya became so popular that show creator Joss Whedon promoted her to a series regular for five seasons.

Other television work includes a guest spot on Monk and recurring voice work on Seth Green’s animated cult hit Robot Chicken. In 2003, she starred as Caitlin Green in the Revolution Studios thriller, Darkness Falls, which opened as the number one film at the box office. In 2009, she appeared as female lead in the independent romantic film TiMER. Through 2010 to 2011, Emma was part of the recurring cast for both Gigantic and Life Unexpected. Since then, her television guest roles have continued onto Prime Suspect, Leverage and Royal Pains. She is an accomplished writer as producer of satricial mock-documentary web series Bandwagon: The Series alongside creators Camilla Rantsen and Karri Bowman. In it, Emma portrays a fictionalized version of herself. The idea for the web series was shot as a film in 2004, but though well received in the film circuit, it was not picked up for distribution. While Emma was working Life Unexpected, she and other producers gathered together to discuss bringing the series to the web. In casting, several of Emma's former co-stars and crew members from Buffy the Vampire Slayer made cameos in Bandwagon: The Series. The original Bandwagon film is viewable on YouTube as well as the twelve part webseries. To add to her writing credits, Emma co-produced a comic book entitled Contropussy about a mild-mannered cat whose adventurism leads her to explore the city by night.

On March 24, 2016, Emma confirmed she was expecting her first child with husband Mark Leslie Ford. On July 10, 2016, she gave birth to a daughter, Knightley Lake Ford.

Trivia

• Her stage name is a reference to J.D. Salinger's book The Catcher in the Rye character Holden Caulfield.
• Regrets that she turned down the opportunity to audition for the roles of Six and Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Chance		Movie (Deleted scenes)
2003	Darkness Falls	Caitlin Greene	Movie
2004	Bandwagon	Emma Caulfield	Movie
2007	Hollow	Sarah	Short film
2009	Why Am I Doing This?	Amber	Movie
2009	TiMER	Oona O'Leary	Movie
2010	Confined	Victoria Peyton	Movie
2010	Removal	Jennifer Kershe	Movie
2013	Back in the Day	Molly	Movie
2013	Telling of the Shoes	Alexandra	Movie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Burke's Law	Beth	1 episode
1994	Saved by the Bell: The New Class	Nurse Brady	1 episode
1994	Renegade	Cindy Moran	1 episode
1995	Weird Science	Phoebe Hale	1 episode
1995-1997	Silk Stalkings	Ray Washburn / Kate Donner	2 episodes
1995–1996	Beverly Hills, 90210	Susan Keats	30 episodes
1996–1997	General Hospital	Lorraine Miller	39 episodes
1998	Nash Bridges	Reporter	1 episode
1998–2003	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Anyanka "Anya" Jenkins	85 episodes Cinescape Genre Face of the Future Award
2003	The Reality of Love	Charlie Norton	TV movie
2004	I Want to Marry Ryan Banks	Charlie Norton	TV movie
2004	Monk	Meredith Preminger	1 episode
2006	In Her Mother's Footsteps	Kate Nolan	TV movie
2007	A Valentine Carol	Ally Simms	TV movie
2009	Private Practice	Leanne	1 episode
2010–2011	Gigantic	Sasha	15 episodes
2010–2011	Life Unexpected	Emma Bradshaw	11 episodes
2011	Pretty the Series	Emma	1 episode
2011	Prime Suspect	Montana	1 episode
2011	Leverage	Meredith	1 episode
2012–Present	Once Upon a Time	The Blind Witch	7 episodes
2012	Leap Year	Smiley	1 episode
2012	Husbands	Stadium Interviewer	2 episodes
2012	Royal Pains	Winnie	2 episodes

Voice

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006-2007	Robot Chicken	Nancy / Timmy's Mom Professor McGonagal / Mother White Witch / Wife	3 episodes (Voice credit)

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010-2011	Bandwagon: The Series	Emma Caulfield	Web series - 12 episodes

Appearances

Once Upon a Time: Season One
"Pilot":	"The Thing You Love Most":	"Snow Falls":	"The Price of Gold":	"That Still Small Voice":	"The Shepherd":	"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter":	"Desperate Souls":	"True North":	"7:15 A.M.":	"Fruit of the Poisonous Tree":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent
"Skin Deep":	"What Happened to Frederick":	"Dreamy":	"Red-Handed":	"Heart of Darkness":	"Hat Trick":	"The Stable Boy":	"The Return":	"The Stranger":	"An Apple Red as Blood":	"A Land Without Magic":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Season Five
"The Dark Swan":	"The Price":	"Siege Perilous":	"The Broken Kingdom":	"Dreamcatcher":	"The Bear and the Bow":	"Nimue":	"Birth":	"The Bear King":	"Broken Heart":	"Swan Song":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Souls of the Departed":	"Labor of Love":	"Devil's Due":	"The Brothers Jones":	"Our Decay":	"Her Handsome Hero":	"Ruby Slippers":	"Sisters":	"Firebird":	"Last Rites":	"Only You":	"An Untold Story":
Appears	Appears	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Appears	Absent	Appears	Appears	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Specials
"Magic is Coming":	"The Price of Magic":	"Journey to Neverland":	"Wicked is Coming":	"Storybrooke Has Frozen Over":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Secrets of Storybrooke":	"Dark Swan Rises":	"Evil Reigns Once More":	"The Final Battle Begins":
Absent	Absent	Archive	Absent

Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.

External links

• Emma Caulfield on Internet Movie Database
• Emma Caulfield on Wikipedia
• @emmacaulfield (Emma Caulfield) on X, formerly Twitter