Eliza Dushku

By Ines Mendoza

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Considering this is a website, and most people who work in I.T. are either Buffy fans, or they the type of people who dress up regularly as some form of Troll - it was only a matter of time that I would find myself being given the task of digging up some dirt (and some scantily clad pictures) of Eliza Dushku.

A native of Boston (Massachusetts) in the USA, Dushku entered the world in December of 1980 the daughter of an Albanian-American administrator and teacher in the Boston Public Schools. Her mothers credentials weren't to bad either, with Judith a university administrator and professor at Suffolk University.

But the good times didn't role for long, with her parents divorcing when she was only an infant - leaving behind Eliza and her three brothers Aaron, Ben and Nathan.

Like, well, everyone else these days, Dushku was thrust into the limelight at the age of ten when she came to the attention of casting agents. Chosen at the end of a five month search, Eliza landed the lead role of Alice, opposite Juliette Lewis, in the film That Night.

In '93, she starred alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in This Boy's Life, a role which opened the door to here major breakthrough role in the Arnold Schwarzenegger / Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies.

Not long after that, Eliza dissapeared from the Hollywood scene - and surprisingly, it wasn't because of the "usual" Young Hollywood reasons.... in fact, no drugs at all to be found near this one!

It seems Dushku opted to finish her junior and senior years of high school. She was later accepted to the George Washington University in Washington and Suffolk University in Boston.

But, lets face it, the reason we have all read this far has nothing to do with her schooling. Heck, it has nothing to do with True Lies - and as hard as it might be to deny - but havent read this far soley on the fact the girl has a steaming hot bod.

We are all here because of.... Faith.

And not the God type either.

After completing high school, Dushku returned to acting with the role of Faith Lehane on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as a Slayer much more troubled than the main character Buffy Summers. Initially planned as a five episode role, the character became so popular that she stayed on for the entirety of the third season (which most fans regard as the best series) returning again for a two-part appearance in season four (after which the remainder of her original story arc was played out as part of the first season of the Buffy spinoff series Angel).

Hollywood was soon calling again during the peak of Buffy's success with Eliza starring in a string of films including Soul Survivors, Bring It On with Kirsten Dunst, The New Guy, City by the Sea opposite Robert De Niro and James Franco, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Wrong Turn.

But let's face it - all those movies sucked more than the series of Buffy where the bad guys were the three geeks...

Returning to TV, Tru Calling (where she played the main character who discovers her power to "re-live" the previous day over again and uses it to bring murderers to justice), Dushku gave up a chance to star in a Faith spin-off series in favour of this show which was cancelled only two years later.

So where to now? I think we all know! Eliza is re-teaming with Buffy creator, Joss Wheadon, for the series Dollhouse which is currently in pre-production. The show follows an organization that employs mind-wiped DNA-altered humans known as "Dolls" who are implanted with false memories and skills for various missions and tasks.

Will it work? Probably not - but one thing remains certain - it won't hurt her chances of appearing at comic book conventions any time soon.

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