Born in 1980, Eliza Dushku made her film debut at age 12, and she has been busy ever since. As the world was panicking over Y2K, Dushku successfully made the transition from child actress to simply actress with leading and supporting roles in a variety of television series and films, with an emphasis on dark thrillers and horror.
Aside from playing then popular bad-girl vampire hunter Faith on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel," and starring roles in the short-lived series series "Tru Calling" and "Doll House," Dushku has been featured in hakf a dozannumehorror films, such as "Soul Survivor", "Wrong Turn", "Locked In", and "Open Graves". Dushku has also leant her distinctive voice to numerous computer games and animated features, most recently voicing Catwoman in the "Batman: Year One" animated feature.
Dushku has several projects in various stages of development, with the most prominent of these being slated part in "Ghostbusters III".
Can we call her a 'scream queen'? I only wonder cuz she's always something of a tough heroine, almost never screaming like a girl and running (and cue jiggling boobs) from whatever terror happens to be lurking. Her characters are usually the ones to punch those kinds of girls in the face with a "seriously, dude. wtf?' While I wouldn't call her a 'scream queen', I would call her awesome.
ReplyDeleteVery happy to say that I got to meet her at Dragoncon this year.
ReplyDeleteCullan: In this series, I'm using the term just to apply to women in horror and thriller flicks. Dushku isn't the only actress featured who hasn't done a whole lot of screaming. And "awesome" is a feature that ALL actresses I've thrown the spotlight here have in common.
ReplyDeleteBut Awesome Actress Saturday doesn't quite have the same ring. :)
While Eliza Dushku’s best known work in genre TV is for playing tuff gurlz like Faith in BtVS and Echo/Caroline Farrell in Dollhouse, she has played some fairly normal women horror films. Eliza played an AWF Jessie Burlingame in 2003’s Wrong Turn and the slightly-creepy but still fairly AWF in the dreadful 2009 Open Graves.
ReplyDeleteyes! very nice--she's hot!
ReplyDeleteShe's good in Wrong Turn, and my wife and I were enjoying Tru Calling until they retooled it, added Jason Priestly, then cancelled it. She's a cutie for sure.
ReplyDelete@Cullan: She screams a lot in True Lies...
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