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Eliza Dushku

Eliza Dushku
Eliza Patricia Dushku was born on the 30th December 1980 in Watertown in Massachusetts.
Early roles include starring in That Night as Alice with Juliette Lewis, This Boy's Life as Pearl along with Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin and Leonardo DiCaprio, Fishing with George and in True Lies as Dana Tasker opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bill Paxton and Tom Arnold.
She also starred in Bye Bye Love as Emma alongside Matthew Modine and Randy Quaid, Journey as Cat opposite Jason Robards, Meg Tilly and Brenda Fricker and in Race The Sun as Cindy Johnson with Halle Berry and Casey Affleck.
Another role was in The New Guy as Danielle alongside Eddie Griffin, Lyle Lovett and DJ Qualls.
She also starred in Soul Survivors as Annabel opposite Casey Affleck, Melissa Sagemiller, Angela Featherstone and Luke Wilson and in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back as Sissy with Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes and Ben Affleck.
Another well known role was in Bring It On as Missy Pantone opposite Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Bradford.
Eliza has been in King of the Hill in the episode called Get Your Freak Off as the voice of Jordan and in City by the Sea as Gina opposite George Dzunda, Robert De Niro, Frances McDormand and James Franco.
She has also appeared in That '70s Show in the episode called It's All Over Now as Sarah alongside Mila Kunis, Danny Masterson, Laura Prepon, Wilmer Valderrama, Debra Jo Rupp, Kurtwood Smith and Ashton Kutcher.
She has also been in The Kiss as Megan alongside Billy Zane and Terence Stamp, Wrong Turn as Jessie Burlingame opposite Desmond Harrington and Emmanuelle Chriqui and in Nurses as Eve Morrow with Lynn Redgrave.
Eliza had the lead role in Tru Calling - The Complete Series as Tru Davies along with Jason Priestley, A.J. Cook, Shawn Reaves and Zach Galifianakis.
She has also starred in guest appearances as vampire slayer Faith in Angel - Season One, Angel - Season Two and Angel - Season Four with David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Alexis Denisof, James Marsters, Glenn Quinn, Amy Acker, Andy Hallett, Julie Benz and J. August Richards.
Eliza also starred as Faith Lehane the vampire slayer in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 2, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 4 and Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 7.
She has also made appearances as Faith in Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Slayer Collection: Spike, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Slayer Collection: Faith, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Slayer Collection: Willow, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Slayer Collection: Angel, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Dawn, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Xander and Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Giles along with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, Emma Caulfield, James Marsters and Nicholas Brendon.
Another role was in Sex And Breakfast as Renee opposite Macaulay Culkin, and Joanna Miles and also appearing in Ugly Betty in the episode called Giving up the Ghost as Cameron Ashlock alongside America Ferrera, Alan Dale, Ashley Jensen, Christopher Gorham and Eric Mabius.
Eliza was also in Nobel Son as City Hall with Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg and Shawn Hatosy, On Broadway as Lena Wilson and in The Last Supper as a Waitress.
Other roles include The Thacker Case as Monica Wright opposite Brian Krause,
and in The Alphabet Killer as Megan Paige with Cary Elwes and Timothy Hutton.
She has appeared in Bottle Shock as Joe alongside Alan Rickman, Chris Pine and Rachael Taylor and in the film called Open Graves as Erica with Mike Vogel and Alex O'Dogherty.
Eliza has also produced and starred in Dollhouse - Series 1 and Dollhouse - Series 2 as Echo alongside her Angel co -star Amy Acker and Reed Diamond.
She has also starred in Noah's Ark: The New Beginning as the voice of Zalbeth with Michael Keaton, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, Rob Schneider, Ben Kingsley, Marcia Gay Harden, Patrick Muldoon, Elliott Gould and Nicollette Sheridan.
Eliza appeared in the Simple Plan music video, "I'm Just a Kid", as the band's love interest, as well as Nickelback's video for "Rockstar".
She has voiced the part of Yumi on the Playstation 2 game called Yakuza and Shaundi on the Playstation 3 and XBox 360 game called Saints Row 2.
Eliza lends her voice of contract killer "Rubi Malone" in the upcoming action video game called Wet.
Another role is in Locked In as Renee with Sarah Roemer, Ben Barnes and Brenda Fricker.
She has secured the rights to The Perfect Moment which is a film based on the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and is also appearing in Ghostbusters 3 alongside Harold Ramis, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd.
Eliza is a big fan of the Boston Red Sox.














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Eliza Dushku - what members say


  • Bring It On
  • Bring It On review by imran from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Super Stuff 18 December 2004
    ...loads of entertaining dancing and plenty of laughs along the way. Plus it's got Eliza Dushku (Faith from Buffy) in a cheerleading outfit - superb! ...   Read customer review
  • Soul Survivors
  • Soul Survivors review by from UK
    Rated - 2.0 stars Some merit in the idea. 3/10. 21 August 2009
    ...hink we rented this movie having recently enjoyed a couple of TV series staring Eliza Dushku, Dollhouse & Tru Calling, however, it was quite quickly clear to us that this m...   Read customer review

Eliza Dushku - filmography


  • Batman - Year One (2011)
    Starring: Bryan Cranston,  Ben McKenzie,  Eliza Dushku
    Director: Sam Liu,  Lauren Montgomery
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Batman: Year One is based on the landmark 1987 DC Comics titles from 12-time Eisner Award winner Frank Miller and illustrator David Mazzucchelli. The film depicts young Bruce Wayne’s return to Gotham City in his first attempts to fight injustice as a costumed vigilante. The playboy billionaire ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 19 members
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  • Dollhouse - Series 2 - Complete (2010)
    Starring: Eliza Dushku,  Amy Acker,  Reed Diamond
    Director: Joss Whedon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dollhouse is a dramatic series from creator Joss Whedon centering on a group of people who are imprinted with the personalities and abilities they need to carry out specific missions. Afterward, their memories are wiped clean and they are confined between missions to a secret facility known as the "..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 145 members
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  • Bottle Shock on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Alan Rickman,  Chris Pine,  Rachael Taylor
    Director: Randall Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1976, a small American winery bested the exalted French wines of the time and sent the wine industry into a tizzy--putting California wines on the map for good. Based on a true story, "Bottle Shock" chronicles the events leading up to the famous "Judgment of Paris" tastings, told through the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,966 member
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  • Nobel Son on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Alan Rickman,  Bryan Greenberg,  Shawn Hatosy
    Director: Randall Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PHD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 302 members
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  • Wrong Turn on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Desmond Harrington,  Eliza Dushku,  Emmanuelle Chriqui
    Director: Rob Schmidt
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Revisiting the teenage slasher movies of the 1970s and 1980s, WRONG TURN is a tense, suspense-packed horror film starring Eliza Dushku (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER). When Chris (Desmond Harrington) is late for a job interview, he drives speedily through a backwoods dirt road, and winds up in a head-on ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 17,082 members
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  • City by the Sea on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Frances McDormand,  James Franco
    Director: Michael Caton-Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    New York City homicide detective Vincent LaMarca has forged a long and distinguished career in law enforcement, making a name for himself as a man intensely committed to his work. But on his latest case, the stakes are higher for Vincent - the suspect he's investigating is his own son, Joey. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,193 members
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  • The New Guy on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Eddie Griffin,  Lyle Lovett,  DJ Qualls
    Director: Edward Decter
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    THE NEW GUY is an energetic, sweet-natured comedy that gleefully discombobulates the unfortunate social class system that has plagued high schools since the beginning of time. Teenager Dizzy Harrison (DJ Qualls) is the laughing stock of Texas' Rocky Creek High School. But his loser status changes ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,775 member
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  • Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Kevin Smith,  Jason Mewes,  Ben Affleck
    Director: Kevin Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Writer-director Kevin Smith's fifth and final installment of his New Jersey Chronicles (which began in 1994 with the breakout, low-budget comedy CLERKS) is a chance for scene-stealing, foulmouthed stoner Jay (Jason Mewes) and his taciturn sidekick/'hetero life mate' Silent Bob (Smith) to carry ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 14,590 members
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  • Soul Survivors on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Melissa Sagemiller,  Angela Featherstone,  Luke Wilson
    Director: Stephen Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    After surviving a car crash that killed her boyfriend (Casey Affleck), Cassandra (Melissa Sagemiller) finds herself haunted by his ghost. A priest (Luke Wilson) tries to exorcize these frightful visions from Cassandra's mind, but her college friends see her vulnerability as the perfect outlet for ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 1,329 member
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  • Bring It On on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Kirsten Dunst,  Eliza Dushku,  Jesse Bradford
    Director: Peyton Reed
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Stellar Kirsten Dunst, as cheerleading captain Torrance Shipman, leads six-time defending cheerleading champions the Toros against a talented inner-city squad, the East Compton Clovers, in BRING IT ON. The film presents a lighthearted, slightly quirky exploration of the cutthroat but perky world of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 9,602 members
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  • Angel - Season Four (6 discs) on DVD (1999)
    Starring: David Boreanaz,  Julie Benz,  Charisma Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The entire fourth season of the cult TV show ANGEL featuring BUFFY's David Boreanaz. Features all 22 episodes including "Deep Down", "Ground State", "The House Always Wins", "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" and "Supersymmetry", "Spin the Bottle", "Apocalypse, Nowish", "Habeas Corpses", "Long Day's ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 7,775 members
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  • True Lies on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Jamie Lee Curtis,  Bill Paxton
    Director: James Cameron
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture, domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd-pleasing ball of entertainment. Producer James Cameron wrote and directed the film. Henry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a workaholic computer salesman ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 26,688 members
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  • This Boy's Life (1993)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Ellen Barkin,  Leonardo DiCaprio
    Director: Michael Caton-Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A film based on Tobias Wolff's much-praised autobiography about his troubled youth. Caroline Wolff, divorced and with no job prospects, takes her son Toby on an aimless journey across 1950s America. They stop for a while in several towns, where Caroline gets involved with different men, but they ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,924 members
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Eliza Dushku facts

5 most recent films

Batman - Year One - 4.0 stars
Dollhouse - Series 2 - Complete - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Dollhouse - Series 2 - Complete - 4.0 stars
Open Graves - 2.5 stars
Dollhouse - Series 1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Dollhouse - Series 2 - Complete - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Dollhouse - Series 1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Dollhouse - Series 2 - Complete - 4.0 stars
Dollhouse - Series 1 - 4.0 stars
Angel - Season One - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Sex And Breakfast - 2.5 stars
The Alphabet Killer - 3.5 stars
Batman - Year One - 4.0 stars
Soul Survivors - 2.5 stars
Open Graves - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Alexis Denisof - 21 times - show films
Amy Acker - 15 times - show films
J. August Richards - 14 times - show films
David Boreanaz - 14 times - show films
Charisma Carpenter - 14 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 16 times - show films
Joss Whedon - 15 times - show films
James A. Contner - 7 times - show films
Steven S. DeKnight - 6 times - show films
Rod Hardy - 6 times - show films