Eliza Dushku is best known for starring as Faith in the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off series Angel.
59 Facts About Eliza Dushku
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Eliza Dushku had lead roles in the Fox supernatural drama series Tru Calling and the Fox science fiction series Dollhouse, for which she was a producer.
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Eliza Dushku has done voice work for numerous video games and animated films.
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Eliza Dushku's father was Boston-born, of Albanian heritage, with his parents coming from the city of Korce, and her mother, from Idaho, is of Danish, English, Irish and German descent.
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Eliza Dushku's mother was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Eliza Dushku and her three brothers were raised as Mormons.
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Eliza Dushku attended Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and graduated from Watertown High School.
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Eliza Dushku came to the attention of casting agents when she was ten years old.
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Eliza Dushku was chosen in a five-month search for the lead role of Alice in the 1992 romantic drama film That Night.
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In 1993, Eliza Dushku landed a role as Pearl, alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, in the drama film This Boy's Life.
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Eliza Dushku had roles as Piper Reeves in the short film Fishing with George, as Cat in the television film Journey, as Paul Reiser's daughter in the romantic comedy film Bye Bye Love, and as Cindy Johnson in the comedy drama film Race the Sun.
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Eliza Dushku planned to attend Suffolk University in Boston, where her mother taught, but her agent asked her to submit a videotape audition for a television show starring another of his clients, Sarah Michelle Gellar.
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When she began her work on the series, Eliza Dushku was still a minor, and had to receive emancipation to work the production's long hours.
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Eliza Dushku later recalled with amusement that the judge who handled her emancipation case, who was an avid fan of the show, jokingly said that she would sign the emancipation order if she could get a signed photo from Dushku.
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In 2000, Eliza Dushku starred in the hit cheerleader comedy Bring It On.
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Eliza Dushku followed that up with Soul Survivors, which reunited her with her Race the Sun co-star Casey Affleck.
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In 2003, Eliza Dushku starred in the horror film Wrong Turn and The Kiss, an independent comedy-drama.
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Eliza Dushku turned down a role in a spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer about Faith.
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Eliza Dushku has had many roles as a "bad girl" in movies.
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Eliza Dushku starred in the Off-Broadway play Dog Sees God in December 2005.
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The play was based on the Peanuts comic strip, with Eliza Dushku playing a character symbolizing Lucy Van Pelt.
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Eliza Dushku quit in February 2006 along with other members of the cast amid rumors of abuse by the producer, which were later dismissed.
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Eliza Dushku played the lead character on Nurses, a hospital comedy-drama for Fox.
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Eliza Dushku appeared in the Simple Plan music video "I'm Just a Kid" as the band's love interest, as well as Nickelback's video for "Rockstar".
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Eliza Dushku voiced the role of Yumi Sawamura in the English-language version of Yakuza for the PlayStation 2, which was published and developed by Sega, and released in September 2006.
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Eliza Dushku was the voice talent for the role of Rubi Malone, the main character in the game WET.
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Eliza Dushku appeared at Spike TV's 2008 Video Game Awards in December 2008.
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Eliza Dushku voiced Megan McQueen in Champion Mode of the 2011 video game Fight Night Champion.
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Eliza Dushku starred in Open Graves, a 2008 horror-thriller about a satanic game co-starring Mike Vogel.
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Eliza Dushku played the main character in The Thacker Case and The Alphabet Killer, both thrillers based on real-life events, one of them directed by Rob Schmidt, with whom she had worked on Wrong Turn.
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Eliza Dushku produced the show and played the main character, 'Echo'.
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Eliza Dushku was the voice actor for contract killer "Rubi Malone" in the action video game Wet.
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In 2010, Eliza Dushku provided her voice for Noah's Ark: The New Beginning and appeared in the film Locked In.
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Eliza Dushku guest-starred in an episode of CBS' comedy The Big Bang Theory which aired on November 4,2010.
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In 2011, Eliza Dushku featured alongside Jayson Floyd in "One Shot", a short action clip on YouTube directed by and starring Freddie Wong, released on May 13,2011.
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Eliza Dushku had a lead role in the online animated "motion comic" series Torchwood: Web of Lies, based on the BBC series Torchwood: Miracle Day.
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In June 2012, Eliza Dushku starred with Katie Cassidy, Gina Gershon and Michelle Trachtenberg in The Scribbler, directed by John Suits and produced by Gabriel Cowan.
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Eliza Dushku has been CEO of her own production company, Boston Diva Productions, with her brother Nate as a partner.
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Eliza Dushku secured exclusive rights to make an authorized film based on the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
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In 2017, her production company, in association with IM Global Television, was reported to be developing Glen Cook's The Black Company series of books for a television series, with Eliza Dushku potentially starring as The Lady.
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Eliza Dushku was raised a Mormon, and still has a Mormon-themed tattoo.
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Eliza Dushku describes herself as having taken a different path from the LDS Church, and is grateful for having grown up in it.
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Eliza Dushku lived for more than 15 years in Los Angeles, though spending substantial time back in Watertown and Boston in the period before her stepfather died.
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Eliza Dushku lived for several years in the Laurel Canyon area.
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On June 22,2014, The Boston Globe reported that Eliza Dushku had left Los Angeles, moved back to Watertown near Boston, and was planning to attend college.
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Eliza Dushku is politically active and campaigned for Bernie Sanders in the US presidential election of 2016.
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Eliza Dushku began dating former Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Rick Fox in October 2009, and in August 2010 the couple confirmed that they were living together.
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In February 2021, Eliza Dushku announced via Instagram that she was pregnant with her second child.
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Eliza Dushku serves on the board of directors of the THRIVE-Gulu organization, an organization dedicated to helping the survivors of war in Northern Uganda, which her mother and stepfather co-founded.
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Eliza Dushku raised US$30,000 for the land for the center's building, and has performed other fundraising activities, as well as helping out in the center itself.
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Over several years, Eliza Dushku raised funds for Camp Hale, which had been attended by her father and brothers, including some specific campaigning to sustain a new concept of a girls' session at the camp, which was launched in 2012, and which she joined in person.
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Eliza Dushku visited her father's family and their home city in Albania in 2006 after receiving an invitation from Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha.
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Eliza Dushku visited Kosovo, and got an Albanian Eagle tattoo on the back of her neck.
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In January 2018, Eliza Dushku made public an account of having been molested by stunt coordinator Joel Kramer when she was 12 and working on True Lies.
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Eliza Dushku wrote that soon after, an adult friend of Dushku confronted Kramer on set, and that the same day, Dushku was injured during a stunt and several of her ribs were broken, while Kramer was responsible for her safety.
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In February 2021, Eliza Dushku shared a message of support for Charisma Carpenter, in reference to allegations of abuse against Buffy creator Joss Whedon.
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Eliza Dushku has said that she has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Eliza Dushku announced in December 2011 that she switched to a vegan diet after watching the documentary Forks Over Knives.
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On March 7,2017, Eliza Dushku attended a Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness, where she revealed that she was a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, having begun drinking and abusing drugs at the age of 14.
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Eliza Dushku said her addictions were at one point so serious that her brother forbade her from being left alone with her niece, his daughter Sofia, and that she was eight-and-a-half years sober.