Eliza Dushku Biography

Best known to TV audiences for her role as Faith on the WB Network's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Eliza Dushku also has a number of films to her name. Dushku, who made her film debut starring opposite Juliette Lewis in the 1992 period drama That Night, began acting professionally when she was barely in her teens. Born of Albanian-Danish descent in Boston, MA, on December 30, 1980, Dushku grew up the youngest sibling of three older brothers. Following her debut in That Night, which cast her as a young girl who becomes infatuated with the rebellious teen who lives across the street, the young actress did supporting work in This Boy's Life (1993) and played the daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies (1994). In 1998 Dushku got one of her biggest breaks to date when she was cast as troubled slayer Faith on Buffy. Although Faith was only meant to appear in a handful of episodes, the show's creators liked Dushku enough to make Faith a recurring character, and also featured her on Angel, Buffy's spin-off. Dushku had perhaps her most successful big-screen role to date in Bring It On (2000), a high-school comedy that cast her as Kirsten Dunst's reluctant but tough fellow cheerleader. The film was one of the summer's biggest money-earners, and Dushku, unsurprisingly, was soon busy with a number of new film projects. Included amongst them were Soul Survivor (2001), a teen horror movie that also featured Casey Affleck and Wes Bentley, and The New Guy (2001), another comedy about the horrors of high school life. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

• 1. Missy Pantone: [Looks out the window] Shut up! You don't have it yet! You don't have it! Give it up already! [Pulls drapes shut]
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• 1. Isis: Hey! You guys enjoyed the show?
  2. Lava: Yes, were the ethnic festivities to your liking today?
  3. Torrance Shipman: You guys are awesome.
  4. Isis: Really? Ready to share those trophies?
  5. Jenelope: Can we just beat these Buffies down so i can go home? I'm on curfew girl.
  6. Missy Pantone: Look there's no need for that.
  7. Isis: Oh, you know what? She's right. So then we'd be doing them a favor. So then they can feel good about sending Raggedy Ann up here to jack us for our cheers.
  8. Torrance Shipman: Raggedy Ann?
  9. Isis: Ugly red head with the video camera permanently attached to her hand. Yall been coming up here for years trying to steal our routines.
  10. Lava: And we just love seeing them on ESPN.
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• 1. Torrance Shipman: What the hell is up?! I went out on a limb for you and you just bail?!
  2. Missy Pantone: Look, I'm not about stealing.
  3. Torrance Shipman: What are you talking about?!
  4. Missy Pantone: You ripped off those cheers.
  5. Torrance Shipman: Alright, get out of the car! I;m gonna kick your ass!
  6. Missy Pantone: Oh really? [Miss gets out of the car}
  7. Torrance Shipman: Come on.
  8. Missy Pantone: You're in for a rude awakening. Get in.
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