Born Eliza Patricia Dushku, on Dec 30, 1980, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

“I don't know what it is about me that makes the casting agents think I’m a bad girl” Eliza Dushku once mused, but between her prominent frown lines, laugh lines, Peter Lorre eyes, and “WB girl” body, it’s hard to imagine her as anything else, a typecasting fate most clearly cast in Bring It On:

“Smile,” commands the pretentious choreographer.

Eliza smiles as sweetly as her harshly Dutch and Albanian features will allow, but the unnatural display is quickly blocked out by the choreographer’s hand.

“Don’t smile,” he says disdainfully.

Of course, like any actor, sooner or later Eliza will tire of playing the same sort of character over and over again, and her career will be pocked with occasional “good girl” roles as she attempts to demonstrate her versatility. And of course none of these other roles will matter much, for just as Pamela Anderson's genes and personality have conspired to make “airy sex kitten” the role she does best, so Eliza’s have conspired to make “scene-stealing badass” the role she’s remembered for long after her star in Hollywood fades.

(Alas, “scene-stealing naked badass” will probably never be among her memorable roles: “You’ve got a better chance of seeing God,” she told Sky News, “than seeing Eliza Dushku nude. That’s my stuff, nobody else’s.”)

Also sprach Golem.
(More recent commentary below)

Tru Recalled ... Again
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
They say the shamed die a thousand deaths, and they weren’t kidding: Fox has cancelled Eliza Dushku’s Tru Calling again.... Read more

Tru Recalled
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Although six new episodes of Eliza Dushku’s stuggling series were shot for its second season, TV Guide reported today that the show about solving crimes on behalf of the future dead is now officially dead itself, to be replaced by the supernatural soap Point Pleasant.... Read more

Tru Recalling
Friday, October 31, 2003
I’m as happy as any guy to see Eliza Dushku back on the air, but let the countdown for the number of weeks Tru Calling has left before it’s tagged and shoved into a meatlocker begin now.... Read more

Tru Calling
Thursday, October 30, 2003
It ain’t Buffy, and the production of Tru Calling has been beset with all sorts of rewriting, recasting, and reshooting problems, but at least Eliza Dushku is finally back on the tube tonight.... Read more

Film

• Nobel Son (2006) .... City Hall
• On Broadway (2006)
• Wrong Turn (2003) .... Jessie
• City by the Sea (2001) .... Gina
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) .... Sissy, Jewel Thief #2
• The New Guy (2001) .... Danielle
• Soul Survivors (2001) .... Annabel
• Bring It On (2000) .... Missy Pantone
• Race the Sun (1996) .... Cindy Johnson
• Bye Bye, Love (1995) .... Emma
• Fishing with George (1994)
• True Lies (1994) .... Dana Tasker
• This Boy's Life (1993) .... Pearl Hansen
• That Night (1992; aka “One Hot Summer”) .... Alice Bloom

• Journey (1995) .... Cat

• That ’70s Show: “It’s All Over Now” (2005) .... Sarah
• Tru Calling (Oct 30, 2003) .... Tru Davies
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Chosen” (May 20, 2003) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “End of Days” (May 13, 2003) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Touched” (May 6, 2003) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Empty Places” (Apr 29, 2003) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Dirty Girls” (Apr 15, 2003) .... Faith
• Punk'd (Mar 24, 2003) .... Herself
• Angel: “Orpheus” (Mar 19, 2003) .... Faith
• Angel: “Release” (Mar 12, 2003) .... Faith
• Angel: “Salvage” (Mar 5, 2003) .... Faith
• King of the Hill: “Get Your Freak Off” (Nov 3, 2002) .... Jordan [voice]
• Angel: “Judgement” (Sep 26, 2000) .... Faith
• Angel: “Sanctuary” (May 2, 2000) .... Faith
• Angel: “Five By Five” (Apr 25, 2000) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Who Are You?” (Feb 29, 2000) .... Buffy/Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “This Year's Girl” (Feb 22, 2000) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Graduation Day: Part 2” (Jul 13, 1999) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Graduation Day: Part 1” (May 18, 1999) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Choices” (May 4, 1999) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Enemies” (Mar 16, 1999) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Doppelgangland” (Feb 23, 1999) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Consequences” (Feb 16, 1999) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Bad Girls” (Feb 9, 1999) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “The Zeppo” (Jan 26, 1999) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Amends” (Dec 15, 1998) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Revelations” (Nov 17, 1998) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Homecoming” (Nov 3, 1998) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Beauty and the Beasts” (Oct 20, 1998) .... Faith
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Faith, Hope & Trick” (Oct 13, 1998) .... Faith

• The Kiss (2003) .... Megan

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