Eliza Dushku Biography

Eliza Dushku

Eliza Patricia Dushku (born December 30, 1980 in Watertown, Massachusetts) is an American actress who has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as Bring It On and Wrong Turn. Eliza Dushku is also well known for Eliza Dushku's acting on television, such as Eliza Dushku's recurring appearances on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as Faith, as well as the main character in the series Tru Calling.

Personal life

Eliza was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, to an Albanian father and Danish mother, and raised in the LDS Church, the faith of Eliza Dushku's mother (though Eliza Dushku is not actively practicing). Eliza Dushku has three older brothers, Aaron, Ben, and Nate, the latter of whom is also an actor. Dushku lives in the Los Angeles area with Nate, the youngest of Eliza Dushku's three brothers, whom Eliza Dushku calls Eliza Dushku's "partner in crime."

A young Eliza appears in the 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger film, True Lies.

Early career

Eliza came to the attention of casting agents when Eliza Dushku was 10. Along with Eliza Dushku's brother, Eliza Dushku went to a commercial audition where Eliza Dushku tripped on the stairs, bloodied Eliza Dushku's nose, and became an instant drama queen. Eliza Dushku was chosen at the end of a five month search throughout the United States for the lead role of Alice, opposite Juliette Lewis in the film That Night. In 1993, Dushku landed a role as Pearl alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in This Boy's Life, a role that Eliza Dushku said opened a lot of doors. Dushku says that Dicaprio taught Eliza Dushku's how to deal with bullies and other high school dangers, for which Eliza Dushku is grateful.

The following year, Eliza Dushku played the teenage daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. Eliza Dushku would also have parts as Paul Reiser's daughter in Bye Bye, Love, as Cindy Johnson with Halle Berry and Jim Belushi in Race the Sun, as well as roles in a television movie and a short film.

Dushku took some time off from acting to finish Eliza Dushku's junior and senior years of high school. Eliza Dushku was accepted to the George Washington and Suffolk Universities in Boston.

Eliza Dushku in a promotional poster for the 2003 horror movie, Wrong Turn.

Later roles

After completing high school, Eliza returned to acting with the role of Faith, a Slayer much more troubled than the main character Buffy. Though initially planned as a five episode role, the character became so popular that Eliza Dushku stayed on for the entirety of the third season. Eliza Dushku has also made guest appearances in Buffy's spin-off, Angel.

Because of Eliza Dushku's convincing role as a sociopath, Eliza Dushku became an icon to many criminals. Eliza Dushku was inundated with piles of fan mail from legions of prisoners. Eliza Dushku said that:

I've been getting fan mail from 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.

In 2000, Eliza Dushku starred with Kirsten Dunst in the cheerleader comedy Bring It On, which was a surprising success at the box office that spawned a sequel. 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, Ben Affleck, and others. After this, Dushku starred in Soul Survivors, opposite Ben Affleck's brother Casey, followed by a role in The New Guy.

Eliza in a guest appearance on That '70s Show, alongside actors Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher.Eliza then returned to work with Robert De Niro and director Michael Caton-Jones in City by the Sea, playing James Franco's junkie girlfriend and mother of his child. The film garnered attention from a wider adult audience and several good reviews.

2003 saw the release of Wrong Turn, a horror film in which Eliza had the starring role, and The Kiss, an independent comedy-drama. Starting that same year, Eliza Dushku also starred in a new Fox TV series, Tru Calling, where Eliza Dushku played the main character, Tru Davies, a medical student whose grant is pulled out from under her, forcing Eliza Dushku's to take a job at a local morgue. There, Eliza Dushku discovers that Eliza Dushku has the power to "re-live" the previous day over again, an ability Eliza Dushku used to right wrongful deaths. Eliza Dushku also attempts to help Eliza Dushku's troubled family - a drug-addicted sister and a gambling-addicted brother.

On October 1, 2005, Eliza Dushku announced at Wizard World Boston that shooting had begun for Nobel Son (to be released in 2006), in which Eliza Dushku will star with Alan Rickman, Danny DeVito, Bill Pullman, and Peter Boyle. Eliza also announced that Eliza Dushku would appear in a Broadway production entitled "Dog Sees God" in December of 2005.

Eliza Dushku Foundation

Dushku has started a new project with Eliza Dushku's father to help Camp Hale, a summer camp for inner-city Boston boys open since 1900, 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 in order to pay for the maintenance of Camp Hale for generations to come.

Filmography

Dushku's character tries on swimsuits in The New Guy.True Lies 2 (2007) - Dana Tasker
Nobel Son (2006) - City Hall
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) - 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 (2000) - Missy Pantone
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 (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

Eliza Dushku - Latest News

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Movies Eliza Dushku has stared in:

Eliza Dushku has stared in 13 Ghosts

Eliza Dushku has stared in 28 Days

Eliza Dushku has stared in Adventures in Babysitting

Eliza Dushku has stared in American Pie 2

Eliza Dushku has stared in Arlington Road

Eliza Dushku has stared in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Eliza Dushku has stared in Bedazzled

Eliza Dushku has stared in Bring It On

Eliza Dushku has stared in Crazy In Alabama

Eliza Dushku has stared in EDtv

Eliza Dushku has stared in Elizabeth

Eliza Dushku has stared in Frequency

Eliza Dushku has stared in Hardball

Eliza Dushku has stared in In Too Deep

Eliza Dushku has stared in Jesus' Son

Eliza Dushku has stared in Kundun

Eliza Dushku has stared in Limbo

Eliza Dushku has stared in Lovely and Amazing

Eliza Dushku has stared in My Favorite Martian

Eliza Dushku has stared in My Life So Far

Eliza Dushku has stared in Notting Hill

Eliza Dushku has stared in Permanent Midnight

Eliza Dushku has stared in Pushing Tin

Eliza Dushku has stared in Reign of Fire

Eliza Dushku has stared in Return to me

Eliza Dushku has stared in Runaway Bride

Eliza Dushku has stared in Scary Movie

Eliza Dushku has stared in Serving Sara

Eliza Dushku has stared in Shakespeare in Love

Some Films Eliza Dushku has stared in:

Eliza Dushku has stared in Bring It On

Eliza Dushku has stared in The New Guy

Eliza Dushku has stared in City by the Sea

Eliza Dushku Related Quotes

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. by Bovee, Christian Nestell

Another Eliza Dushku Related Quote

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results; but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. by Cabell, James Branch

Yet Another Eliza Dushku Related Quote

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. by Christ, Jesus

And our last Eliza Dushku Related Quote

All animals but men know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it -and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow it. by Butler, Samuel

Eliza Dushku News

Eliza Dushku - Teetotal Dushku Plays Bartender In Wine Film (ContactMusic)

Actress ELIZA DUSHKU was an odd choice to play a bartender in new wine movie BOTTLE SHOCK - because she never drinks. The role of Joe was originally written for a male ...

Clay Aiken is a dad; Matthew McConaughey takes the baby to a concert; Eliza Dushku angers PETA (San Francisco Chronicle)

Clay Aiken is a dad; Matthew McConaughey takes the baby to a concert; Eliza Dushku angers PETA

Eliza Dushku - Dushku Selecting Friends For Luxury Mustique Vacation (ContactMusic)

ELIZA DUSHKU's friends are on their best behaviour after the actress and her boyfriend won a seven-night stay in the West Indies at a recent charity auction The former ...

Eliza Dushku Upsets PETA (Hollyscoop)

PETA has a new celebrity to go after, and it's Eliza Dushku. She's been out of the limelight lately, and what a way to be brought back into it! Eliza has offended PETA because she recently admitted to ...

Non-drinking Dushku plays bartender in wine film (WSYR 9 Syracuse)

Actress Eliza Dushku was an odd choice to play a bartender in new wine movie Bottle Shock , because she never drinks.

Dushku upsets animal lovers with hunting boasts (world entertainment news via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Former Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Eliza Dushku has upset animal rights activists in America after revealing she hunts elk and deer.

Movie Review: Bottle Shock (Entertainment Weekly)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | D+

New releases (Boston Globe)

DVDS - TV Tru Calling: complete series Fresh off her stint as Faith on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the Hub's own Eliza Dushku became Tru Davies, a night-shift morgue worker who finds bodies asking her for help. She then relives the last 24 hours, preventing murders, suicides, or other mayhem. After a slow start in which the show - like ...

?Bottle Shock' doesn't go down easy (The Charlotte Observer)

For obvious reasons, a lot of people will be using wine metaphors to describe ?Bottle Shock,? but instead of talking about tangerine undertones or a hint of oak, let's just say this movie is more like a Merlot you get for $6.99 at Trader Joe's than some $90 snob special in a French restaurant.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Dushku Upsets Animal Lovers With Hunting Boasts (ContactMusic)

Former BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER star ELIZA DUSHKU has upset animal rights activists in America after revealing she hunts elk and deer. The actress proudly showed off her ...

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