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Eliza Patricia Dushku (born December 30, 1980 in
Boston, Massachusetts) is an United
States|American actor|actress and star of the
television series Tru Calling. She is also well
known for her recurring appearances on Buffy the
Vampire Slayer and Angel (TV series)|Angel as
Faith (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Faith, the once
rogue, now redemption|redeemed, Slayer.


Dushku has starred on the big screen in Bring It
On (movie)|Bring It On, The New Guy, Jay and
Silent Bob Strike Back, City by the Sea, and Wrong
Turn. In 1994, she also had a role in True Lies. 
She appeared in the Simple Plan video, "I'm Just a
Kid".

Her father is Albania|Albanian and her mother is
Denmark|Danish. She has three brothers, Aaron, Ben
and Nate Dushku|Nate, the latter of whom is also
an actor. She was born in Watertown,
Massachusetts. Dushku was born into and raised in
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints|LDS Church, but is not actively practicing.
Despite this, she is terrified of flying and will
only do so with religious artifacts.

Dushku has had numerous starring roles in several
acclaimed films. She was discovered when she was
10, when she went along with her brother to a
commercial audition, tripped on the stairs,
bloodied her nose and became an instant Drama
Queen, and came to the notice of the casting
agents. She was chosen at the end of a 5-month
search throughout the United States for the
perfect girl to play the lead role of Alice
opposite Juliette Lewis in the film That  Night
when she was 12. The following year (1993) Dushku
landed a role as Pearl alongside Robert De Niro
and Leonardo DiCaprio in This Boy's Life in a role
that she said opened a lot of doors for her.
Dicaprio taught her how to deal with bullies and
other high school dangers, and for that she says
she is forever grateful to him.  

In the following year, she played the teenage
daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee
Curtis in True Lies. She then had parts as Paul
Reiser's daughter in Bye Bye, Love and as Cindy
Johnson with Halle Berry and Jim Belushi in Race
the Sun as well as playing parts in a television
movie and a short film. She began to get more
mature roles in the following years, as she was
able to look a few years beyond her true age.

Dushku took time off from acting to finish her
junior and senior years of high school. She was
accepted in George Washington and Suffolk
Universities in Boston (where she wants to study
something other than acting). Any time she has
said that she was deciding between going to
college or going on with her film career, and it
seems like school is on hold for now.

==Faith==
After high school, her return into acting was in
Buffy: The Vampire Slayer with the role of Faith
(Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Faith, a Slayer (Buffy
the Vampire Slayer)|Slayer much more troubled than
Buffy Summers|Buffy. Though initially planned as a
five episode role, the character became so popular
with the fans, cast and crew that she stayed on
throughout the whole of the third season. She has
made guest appearances in both Buffy and its
spin-off Angel. 

Because of her convincing role as a sociopath, she
became an icon for some of America's worst
criminals. She was inundated with piles of fan
mail from legions of prisoners. She said that:
:"I've been getting fan mail from maximum security
penitentiary|maximum security penitentiaries, and
Death Row. What are the authorities thinking of in
playing a show with young teenage girls to Death
Row inmates? They write everything — disgusting
things that you don't even want to know about. And
they send me pictures — 'Oh, here's a picture of
me before I was incarcerated!' — and there's
some guy sat on the sofa with a bottle of beer and
a moustache, and a big gut. It's so creepy. Way
more creepy than Buffy."

==Bring It On==
In 2000, she starred with Kirsten Dunst in the
cheerleader|cheerleading comedy Bring It On, that
was a surprising success at the box office. Kevin
Smith invited Dushku to be a part of his final
adventure for his two characters, Jay and Silent
Bob, in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, where
Eliza co-starred with Shannon Elizabeth, Ali
Larter, Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck and many more.  
 
==Soul Survivors and The New Guy==
After this, Dushku starred in Soul Survivors,
followed by The New Guy, which was accepted as a
decent effort in the teen movie genre.  



==City by the Sea==
She then returned to work with Robert DeNiro and
director Michael Caton-Jones in City by the Sea,
playing James Franco's junkie girlfriend and
mother of his child. She recieved many good
reviews praising her versatility and gave her more
attention from an adult audience. 

==Wrong Turn==
2003 saw the release of Wrong Turn, a horror film,
defined like the wet dream of a 70's horror fan by
the critics.  
 
==The Kiss==
Simultaneously to the release of her new movie,
The Kiss, an independent comedy/drama, she issue a
risky bet: an original and innovative Fox
Broadcasting Company|Fox's TV series, Tru Calling,
where she plays Tru Davies, a medical grad student
whose grant is suddenly pulled out from under her,
and takes a job at a local morgue. There, she
discovers that she has the power to "re-live" the
previous day over again to help the people who
wrongly end up dead. She uses this gift not only
to save lives, but to help her trouble-plagued
family - a drug addicted sister and a
gambling-addicted brother.

==Los Angeles==
Dushku recently moved to the Los Angeles area with
Nate, the oldest of her three brothers. She calls
her brother Nate her "partner in crime."

==Her foundation==
Dushku has started a new project with her father
to help Camp Hale (a summer camp that has been
giving inner-city Boston boys a chance to
experience life away from the streets since 1900
and where the Dushku family are closely involved):
the Eliza Dushku Foundation. Through the sale of
props and fan memorabilia, the Dushkus hope to
generate increased contributions to continue the
tradition of Camp Hale for generations to come.



== Filmography ==
* That 70's Show (2005 guest appearance, TV
Series) - Sarah
* Reading Rainbow (2005 guest appearance, TV
Series) - Narrator
* Tru Calling (2003-2005, TV Series) - Tru Davies
* The Kiss (2003 movie)|The Kiss (2003) - Megan
* Punk'd (2003) - Herself
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds (2003,
Video Game) - Faith
* Wrong Turn (2003) - Jessie Burlingame
* City By the Sea (2002) - Gina
* The New Guy (2002) - Danielle
* Soul Survivors (2001) - Annabel
* Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) - Sissy
* Bring It On (movie)|Bring It On (2000) - Missy
Pantone
* Angel (TV series)|Angel (2000, 2003 guest
appearances, TV Series) - Faith
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998-2000, 2003 guest
appearances, TV Series) - Faith
* Race the Sun (1996) - Cindy Johnson
* Journey (tv)|Journey (1995, TV) - Cat
* Bye Bye, Love (1995) - Emma Carlson
* True Lies (1994) - Dana Tasker
* Fishing With George (1994)
* This Boy's Life (1993) - Pearl
* That Night (1992) - Alice Bloom

== External links ==
* imdb name|id=0244630|name=Eliza Dushku
* http://www.westlord.com/eliza-dushku/ Eliza
Dushku Website at WestLord
*
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Performing_Arts/Acting/Actors
_and_Actresses/D/Dushku,_Eliza/ Listing of fan
sites