The daughter of an Albanian-American administrator father and Danish-American professor mother, Eliza Dushku was raised with ambition in her blood. At the early age of 10, Dushku was discovered by casting agents for the lead role of "Alice" in the film "That Night."
Most recently, Dushku co-starred with Alan Rickman and Bill Pullman in "Bottle Shock," a drama about the birth of the Napa Valley wine country. In 1993, Dushku landed the role of "Pearl" alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in "This Boy's Life." The following year, she starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in "True Lies," opposite Paul Reiser in "Bye Bye, Love" and alongside Halle Berry in "Race the Sun."
After high school, Dushku returned to acting with the role of "Faith Lehane" on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Though initially planned as a five-episode arc, the character became so popular that Dushku stayed on for the entire third season and returned for a two-part appearance the following season. The remainder of her original story arc was played out in the first season of the spin-off "Angel." Repentant and rededicated, "Faith" returned as a heroine in a number of later episodes of "Angel" and in the last five episodes of "Buffy."
Dushku resides in Los Angeles.