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.