NAME: Eliza Patricia Dushku
BORN: December 30, 1980
POB: Watertown, Massachusetts
FAMILY: Mother, 3 older brothers
Appearing on television and in over a dozen films, Eliza Dushku is easily one of the most talented and accomplished young faces on the screen. Born Eliza Patricia Dushku in Boston Massachusetts, she was the youngest child (and the only girl) in her family and raised in the Mormon faith.
Growing up with three brothers taught Eliza to be independant, it also made her a tom boy.
“For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did.” Eliza told Maxim Online, “I wore boys’ clothes, played tag football, and even peed like a boy. [laughs] I swear to God. We’d go on road trips with my mom, and when we’d make the inevitable pit stops on the side of the highway, I’d jump out and line up next to my brothers.”
Eliza has been acting since she 1992′s That Night, in which she was cast at the end of a five (5) month search after falling on her face on the movie set. After That Night, Eliza appeared in five (5) movies, including True Lies and Journey, but took a break from acting after Race the Sun to finish high school. After graduation, Eliza was cast as, and is probably best known for her role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which she played the part of Faith, a misguided Slayer who persues a life on the dark side after a freak accident label’s her a murderer.
Even though she might not be as blunt as Faith, her bad-girl alter-ego on TV’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel, Eliza is no stranger to speaking her mind. “I got thrown out of camp for telling some younger campers what being gay meant.” Eliza told Cosmo’s Megan Quitkin, “I was scared my mom would be mad, but I also knew I hadn’t done anything wrong.”
Other Quotes from Cosmo:
“By the time I was 5 my brothers had taught me I had a line surroundingme and that I should knock anyone in the head if they tried to cross it!” -Eliza on being the youngest and only girl in her family
“People come up to me and say, ‘Who do you think you are messing with Buffy?’ I’m like, ‘Who do I think I am? That’s not me!’ ” -Eliza on the trials of playing the bad girl.
