Eliza Dushku Gossip

Born to parents of Albanian and Danish descent in Massachusetts in December of 1980, her parents later divorced when she was still very young. In 1990 Dushku went to an audition for a commercial where she accidentally fell. The minor spill resulted in a nosebleed that Dushku played up so well that she impressed the judges with her flair for the dramatic. After that Dushku began starring in films and television as early as 1992 when she was discovered after a participating in a nationwide search for her role in the movie, That Night.

However, Dushku claims that it was actually the movie, This Boy's Life, in which she co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, that opened a lot of doors for her. In fact, the next year, 1994, Dushku found herself working with Jamie Lee Curtis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and James Belushi, in the action-packed movie, True Lies.

After filming Race the Sun Dushku took a break in order to finish her high school years before forgoing college to resume her acting career with the role of Faith in the popular series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her reoccurring role on Buffy later translated to her playing the same character in the show's popular spin-off, Angel. Dushku has remarked that playing the dark, sociopath Faith has gotten her some unwanted attention from men in prison. In 2003 she starred in her own short-lived series, Tru Calling.

Dushku is currently working on several different projects. In fact she is set to appear in as many as six movies in 2007: Zoe, The Alphabet Killer, Open Graves, Sex and Breakfast, Nobel Son, and On Broadway. Besides her intense concentration on her acting she has also started The Eliza Dushku Foundation. This foundation is a co-project with her father, Phillip Dushku, which is intended to help support a summer camp for poor, inner-city boys in Boston named Camp Hale. The Dushkus hope that they can use the sale of fan memorabilia will help to pay to run the camp for years to come.