Eliza Dushku is one the very fine actresses in the industry today. She has a startling talent, unassailable persona, and every time she acts, she emerges out as a force to be reckoned with. The wicked and villainous Faith on The WB's "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer", Eliza Dushku embarked upon her acting career in early 1990's.

Her maiden venture was named "That Night", where she played the young, awestruck neighbor of a troubled sixteen-year-old (Juliette Lewis), who helps the older girl, find the way out of her outlawed romance with bad boy Rick (C Thomas Howell). Dushku gave a promising entry with this movie and displayed an impressive combination of dreamy idealism of her character's youth and practical emotions.

There are a number of remarkable performances that Eliza has in her Kitty, some of them include This Boy's Life, True Lies, Hallmark TV movie Journey, the Paul Reiser flick Bye Bye, Love and Race the Sun. this impressive actress has shared screen with a number of veteran actors such as Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Paul Reiser and James Belushi. It looks as if this female has carved out a niche for herself at a very young age. After giving these two movies in line, year 2002 turned out to be the banner year or the turning point of her career.

Born on December 30, 1980 in Boston; Massachusetts, Eliza appeared at the Watertown Children's Theater beginning in the first grade, performing in productions and also serving as a sign-language interpreter for hearing-impaired audience members. A strange thing to know about the actress is that she was legally emancipated from her parents because of strict laws on the hours that a minor is allowed to work. Eliza is the youngest and therefore the pampered one in the family. She has 3 elder brothers Aaron, Ben and Nate. Her mother is a university administrator at Suffolk University. Father is a teacher in the Boston Public School.

This upcoming actress is very close to her family and loves to be with them at home. She is so close, that on locations, she takes her bed linen to feel at home, and also surrounds herself with pictures of family and friends. Another unusual thing to know about Eliza is that afraid of traveling by air, and whenever she has to, she makes it a point to carry religious artifacts with her.

Talking about Dukshu's future plans we would like to say that the actress is enjoying the success of her current release "Wrong Turn" which is a horror flick. Apart from this the lady has some more projects in the pipeline that include Angel - Season 1-4 Megapack, coming later this year. So better wait n watch where, the hot-bod has on offer!!

The kind of career graph that Eliza has till date shows that she is going to be an integral part of box-office for next many years.