Eliza Dushku Bipgraphy

Birth Name : Eliza Patricia Dushku 

Date of Birth : 30 December 1980, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 

Nickname : Duck Shoot (bestowed on her by Kevin Smith)

Height : 5' 5" (1.65 m) 

Occupation : Actress

Born of Albanian-Danish descent in Boston, MA, on December 30, 1980, Dushku grew up the youngest sibling of three older brothers. Following her debut in That Night, which cast her as a young girl who becomes infatuated with the rebellious teen who lives across the street, the young actress did supporting work in This Boy's Life (1993) and played the daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies (1994). In 1998 Dushku got one of her biggest breaks to date when she was cast as troubled slayer Faith on Buffy. Although Faith was only meant to appear in a handful of episodes, the show's creators liked Dushku enough to make Faith a recurring character, and also featured her on Angel, Buffy's spin-off. 

Her turn as the feisty Dana Tasker in "Lies" seemed to set a career path for her subsequent roles. Dushku was soon cast in a string of headstrong roles in minor features like "Bye Bye Love" (1995) and "Race the Sun" (1996). 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.

Duskhu continued to explore the indie film world for her next few efforts; she received solid reviews for her turn as a poet with a crush on a kidnapped college student in "Nobel Son" (2008), and reunited with several of that film's stars, including Alan Rickman and Bill Pullman, for the equally praised comedy "Bottle Shock" (2008). She also gained notice for both her performance and an unexpected nude scene in "The Alphabet Killer" (2008), a gritty thriller about a rash of real-life unsolved murders in New York during the 1970s, which also served as her debut as producer. But most of these efforts were overshadowed by the news that the actress had signed a development deal with Fox in 2007. Her first effort towards a new series was "Nurses" (2007), a pilot for director P.J. Hogan about the personal lives of hospital nurses, but it failed to progress beyond that phase.