Welcome to Eliza Dushku Central, a relaunch of Eliza-Dushku.Org , one of your oldest sources for Eliza. Best known for her work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bring It On and Dollhouse, you can see Eliza in the upcoming horror film Eloise. We aim to bring you a comprehensive gallery on Eliza's appearances and work. For news on her career, check out our twitter and tumblr pages. We hope you enjoy the site and come back soon!
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Eliza Patricia Dushku was born on December 30, 1980 to Philip and Judy Dushku in Watertown, Massachusetts. She is of Albanian, Danish, and English descent and received her Albanian citizenship in 2011. She became an honorary citizen of Tirana, and was given the honorary title of Tirana Ambassador of Culture and Tourism in the World by Tirana mayor Lulzim Basha. Additionally, she was given honorary citizen status in her father's home town of Korçë, Albania. Eliza has three brothers, and was raised Mormon. Dushku came to the attention of casting agents when she was 10. She was chosen in a five-month search for the lead role of Alice in the film That Night. In 1993, Dushku landed a role as Pearl alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in This Boy's Life. The following year, she played the teenage daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. She had parts as Paul Reiser's daughter in Bye Bye Love, as Cindy Johnson in Race the Sun, and roles in the television movie Journey and the short film Fishing with George.
Following high school, Eliza planned to attend Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts; however, her agent requested she submit an audition tape for Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the character Faith - a dark, troubled slayer. Because Eliza was a minor at the time of filming, she had to receive legal emancipation from her parents. Though initially planned as a five-episode role, the character became so popular that she stayed on for the whole third season and returned for a two-part appearance in season four, after which the remainder of her original story arc was played out as part of the first season of the Buffy spin-off series Angel. Repentant and rededicated, Faith returned as a heroine in other episodes of Angel and in the last five episodes of Buffy.
In a 2016 interview, Eliza commented on the reaction of Faith from fans. "When I played Faith, I started getting letters from young women — and men — that said, 'Your character made me confront my abuser' or 'Your character made me feel for the first time like I was strong, because you are strong,'" recalled Dushku, her leather pants–clad legs curled underneath her. "That was such a shift for me. I couldn’t turn my back on that."
Following her stint on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Eliza returned to film to play Missy Pantone in the incredibly popular movie Bring It On. She followed that up with the psychological thriller Soul Survivors. And soon added the New Guy, City by the Sea, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike back to her filmography. She received much attention from a wider adult audience from City by the Sea. In 2003, Eliza starred in the horror film Wrong Turn, and became the lead of a new Fox supernatural drama, Tru Calling. Dushku turned down a role in a spin-off of Buffy The Vampire Slayer which would have been about Faith. She had many roles as a "bad girl" in movies, but wanted a change. In an interview with Maxim in May 2001, Dushku said of her roles, "It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting."
Dushku starred in an Off-Broadway production entitled Dog Sees God from December 2005, playing "Van's sister", a character paralleled with Lucy Van Pelt from the Peanuts comic strip on which the play production is based. She quit in February 2006 along with other members of the cast amidst rumors of abuse from the producer, which were later dismissed. Later, she was cast as the lead character in a new hospital dramedy by Fox entitled Nurses; however, the pilot was not picked up. Eliza returned to film, once again, and co-starred in several independent dramas and comedies. She received positive reviews for her role in Nobel Son.
On August 26, 2007, Dushku signed a development deal with Fox Broadcasting Company and 20th Century Fox. Under the pact, the network and the studio would develop projects tailor-made for the actress as well as approach her with existing pitches and scripts. Subsequently, it was announced on October 31 that Dushku had lured Joss Whedon, of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, back to TV, as they agreed to create a show called Dollhouse. Dushku produced the show and played the main character, 'Echo', which aired on Fox during the 2008–09 TV Season.
Since the cancellation of Dollhouse, Eliza has gone to star and co-star in several films along with appearing on popular shows such as Ugly Betty, White Collar, and the Big Bang Theory. Along with providing her voice for the motion comic series Torchwood: Miracle Day and the animated Disney XD series Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. In 2016, she had a recurring role in the fourth and final season of the Cinemax TV series Banshee.
Eliza is the founder and CEO of Boston Diva Productions and serves on the board of directors of the THRIVEGulu organization (The Trauma Healing and Reflection Center in Gulu), an organization dedicated to helping the survivors of war (including former child soldiers) in Northern Uganda. As a role model to campus leaders for her activism, Dushku was invited by the Millennium Campus Network (MCN) as a national keynote speaker and honored as a Global Generation Award winner alongside U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at MCN events in 2011. And in 2016, she campaigned for Bernie Sanders in the U.S. presidential election.
In 2014, Eliza left Los Angeles to return to Boston to study sociology at Suffolk University.
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