Sarah Michelle Gellar

Birth Name:
Eliza Patricia Dushku
Date Of Birth (location)
30 December 1980,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Mini Biography
Born in Boston, MA, Eliza Dushku began her movie career in the film, "That Night." She is already considered a veteran actress by her peers, as she has been in numerous roles in major motion pictures. She has studied dance (ballet, jazz, and tap), and now she can sometimes be seen at children's theaters, where she signs plays to the deaf.

Alyson Hannigan

David Boreanaz

Nicholas Brendon

Anthony Stewart Head

Emma Caulfield

Amber Benson

Seth Green

Michelle Trachtenberg

Charisma Carpenter

Eliza Dushku was discovered at the end of a five month search throughout the US for the role of Alice in the film 'That Night'. After this movie, she was cast as the daughter of Robert DeNiro in 'This Boy's Life' also starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Following this, she played the part of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis' daughter in the action adventure True Lies. She has also appeared in movies such as Journey, Bye Bye Love and Race the Sun.
After Race the Sun, Eliza stopped acting in order to finish high school. Once completed, she was cast as Faith, the evil, rogue slayer in WB's network hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Which has now moved up to UPN) With this character, she managed to appear in many episodes as well as crossing over to the more recent spin-off Angel.
Eliza has also completed filming two new movies and is in production with a third. Bring It On (starring Kirsten Dunst) was released in theatres in August 2000, while Soul Survivors (starring Casey Affleck and Wes Bentley) is released within the US in September, 2000. Eliza's latest movie, The New Guy, began production in October 2000, and she has two more films lined up - City By The Sea (also starring Robert DeNiro) and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

James Marsters

Juliet Landau

Trivia
Mother is a university professor at Suffolk University

Has 3 older brothers

Was legally emancipated from her parents because of strict laws on the hours that a minor is allowed to work.

Older brother, Nate Dushku, will appear opposite Ryan Phillippe in Anti-Trust.
Brother, Nate Dushku.

Signs for the deaf at the Watertown Children's Theatre in Boston.

She's Albanian and Danish

Raised in a staunch Mormon household.

Her last name is pronounced (Dush-koo) - Dush rhymes with Hush

Marc Blucas

Eliza Dushku

J. August Richards

Alexis Denisof

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