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Eliza Dushku Profile

Name: Eliza Dushku

Birth Name: Eliza Patricia Dushku

Height: 5' 5"

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: December 30, 1980

Birth Place: Boston, Massachussetts

Profession: actress

Education: Watertown High

Relationship: Colby (Ralph Lauren model)

Mother: A professor at Boston University

Brother: Nate Dushku (actress; born on June 8, 1977)

Claim to fame: as Faith in Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Eliza Dushku Biography

Eliza Patricia Dushku (born December 30, 1980) is an American television and film actress, who has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as True Lies, The New Guy, Bring It On, and Wrong Turn. She is also well known for her acting on television, such as her recurring appearances on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as Faith, as well as the main character in the series Tru Calling.

Dushku was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Judith "Judy" (née Rasmussen) (born March 30, 1942), a university administrator and professor at Suffolk University, and Philip R. Dushku (born June 1, 1941), an administrator and teacher in the Boston Public Schools. Dushku's father is Albanian American and her mother is Danish American on both her grandfathers' side and English American on both her grandmothers' side. Dushku attended Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Mass and graduated from Watertown High School (Massachusetts) as a teenager. She was raised a Mormon, the faith of her mother (though she is not actively practicing). She has three older brothers, Aaron, Benjamin (Ben) (born February 5, 1976), and Nathan (Nate) (born June 8, 1977, in Boston, Massachusetts), the last of whom is a model and also an actor. Her parents divorced when she was still an infant.

Dushku came to the attention of casting agents when she was 10. She was chosen at the end of a five month search throughout the United States for the lead role of Alice, opposite Juliette Lewis 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, a role that she said opened a lot of doors. The following year, she played the teenage daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. She also had parts as Paul Reiser's daughter in Bye Bye, Love, as Cindy Johnson with Halle Berry and Jim Belushi in Race the Sun, as well as roles in a television movie and a short film.

Dushku took some time off from acting to finish her junior and senior years of high school. She was accepted to the George Washington University in Washington, DC and Suffolk University in Boston, where her mother serves as professor of government and previously served as dean of the campus in Dakar, Senegal.