Eliza Patricia Dushku was born December 30, 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts and named after an aunt.

She began her movie career in the movie "That Night" at the tender age of 12, playing Alice Bloom opposite Juliette Lewis. She has starred with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert de Niro as well Arnold Schwarzeneggar in such major motion pictures as This Boy's Life & True Lies, respectively.

After graduating from high school, the then-17-nearly-18 year old Eliza auditioned for television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and won the part of Faith, a Slayer much more troubled than Buffy. The role began in the fall of 1998 and was only supposed to be a short stint, but actress and character soon won over the cast, crew and audience. The role became a recurring one and continued throughout the 1998-1999 season (the third year of BtVS). She has since had guest starred on various episodes of both BtVS and its spinoff Angel. She steals every scene she is in.

The movie Bring It On opened #1 in the box office in August 2000. Eliza received second billing as Missy, a tough tumbler turned cheerleader. The movie held strong at the box office, topped in the charts two weeks in a row.

There's no one quite like Eliza Dushku. An amazing talent, a commanding presence, an outgoing young woman, she is a force to be reckoned with.