She was a rebellious high school girl whose frustration over a lack of gymnastics programs forced her to join the cheerleading squad in the hit comedy "Bring It On" (2001), and one of a quintet of leather-clad animal liberationists in Kevin Smith's raunchy "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" (2001).
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Plans were announced to make Dushku the star of a spin-off series about Faith, but by then, the actress's popularity had translated into feature film roles, so the show never came to fruition.Faith cast a long shadow over Duskhu's subsequent film roles, which for the most part, followed the same "bad girl with a heart of gold" path as her TV character. Faith made her final return to the "Buffy" universe in its climatic season, where she settled her issues with Buffy and aided in the battle that brought the series to a close. Faith was then folded into the "Buffy" spin-off "Angel," where her self-destructive ways lead to several attempts on the vampire-turned-detective's life. This led to a showdown that put Faith in a coma until the show's fourth season, when she awoke to switch bodies with Buffy and wreak more havoc. However, unlike Buffy, Faith failed to fit in with the tight-knit group of friends that served as the show's focus, and eventually fell in with the town's evil Mayor, who dispatched her to kill off Buffy's boyfriend, Angel (David Boreanaz). Like Sarah Michelle Gellar's eponymous heroine, Faith was a Slayer, imbued with superhuman powers to fight the forces of evil that plagued the small town of Sunnyvale, CA. Initially planned for just a five-episode story arc, Faith became so well liked by viewers that she was granted recurring status for several seasons even shuttling between "Buffy" and "Angel" in subsequent years.
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.In 1998, Dushku was tapped by "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" producer Joss Whedon to play Faith in the third season of the popular supernatural action series. Dushku was soon cast in a string of headstrong roles in minor features like "Bye Bye Love" (1995) and "Race the Sun" (1996). Her turn as the feisty Dana Tasker in "Lies" seemed to set a career path for her subsequent roles. The film did not earn a release date until 1993, when Dushku was co-starring with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in the period drama "This Boy's Life." Her profile gained even more ground the following year, when director James Cameron cast her as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis' sullen daughter in his action-adventure epic, "True Lies" (1994). Dushku made her feature film debut in 1991's "That Night" after being discovered in a five-month casting search the 11-year-old played a precocious adolescent who aids her love-struck neighbor (Juliette Lewis) in a relationship with C. Her interest in acting began in the first grade with performances at the Watertown Children's Theater, as well as a sign-language interpretation for hearing-impaired guests.
Born to parents of Albanian and Danish heritage Eliza Patricia Dushku (pronounced DUSH-koo) and her three older brothers were raised in Watertown, MA.
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