This led to a showdown that put Faith in a coma until the show's fourth season, when she awoke to switch bodies with Buffy and wreak more havoc. However, unlike Buffy, Faith failed to fit in with the tight-knit group of friends that served as the show's focus, and eventually fell in with the town's evil Mayor, who dispatched her to kill off Buffy's boyfriend, Angel (David Boreanaz). Like Sarah Michelle Gellar's eponymous heroine, Faith was a Slayer, imbued with superhuman powers to fight the forces of evil that plagued the small town of Sunnyvale, CA. Initially planned for just a five-episode story arc, Faith became so well liked by viewers that she was granted recurring status for several seasons even shuttling between "Buffy" and "Angel" in subsequent years. In 1998, Dushku was tapped by "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" producer Joss Whedon to play Faith in the third season of the popular supernatural action series. Rather than continue in this vein, Dushku took time off from her career to complete high school, after which she gained acceptance at both George Washington University and Suffolk University, where her mother served as a professor. Dushku was soon cast in a string of headstrong roles in minor features like "Bye Bye Love" (1995) and "Race the Sun" (1996). Her turn as the feisty Dana Tasker in "Lies" seemed to set a career path for her subsequent roles. The film did not earn a release date until 1993, when Dushku was co-starring with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in the period drama "This Boy's Life." Her profile gained even more ground the following year, when director James Cameron cast her as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis' sullen daughter in his action-adventure epic, "True Lies" (1994). Dushku made her feature film debut in 1991's "That Night" after being discovered in a five-month casting search the 11-year-old played a precocious adolescent who aids her love-struck neighbor (Juliette Lewis) in a relationship with C.
Her interest in acting began in the first grade with performances at the Watertown Children's Theater, as well as a sign-language interpretation for hearing-impaired guests. 30, 1980, Eliza Patricia Dushku (pronounced DUSH-koo) and her three older brothers were raised in Watertown, MA. Despite these setbacks, Dushku remained exceptionally popular with audiences, and assured her status as one of Hollywood's most appealing young performers.īorn to parents of Albanian and Danish heritage on Dec.
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However, both of her turns as series star struggled mightily to find audiences "Tru Calling" (Fox, 2003-05) folded after just two seasons, while "Dollhouse" (Fox, 2009-10), which marked her reunion with Whedon, barely escaped cancellation after its debut. Its success translated into a string of features in the early part of the new millennium, but television appeared to hold more interest for the actress.
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Dushku began her professional career as an adolescent with supporting roles in "True Lies" (1995) and "Bye Bye Love" (1996), but "Buffy" producer Joss Whedon gave her a defining role as rebellious Slayer Faith on his popular horror-adventure show. An alluring lead with a knack for playing dangerous women, actress Eliza Dushku rose to popularity on the strength of her performances on youth-oriented television series like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (The WB, 1997-2003) and features like "Bring It On" (2001) and "Wrong Turn" (2003).
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