People magazines January 26th edition contains a short feature about Eliza Dushku. If you can get hold of this issue then you'll find the following feature along with photographs of Eliza.
Tru Calling's Eliza Dushku
Age: 23
Hometown: Boston
Latest Gig: She hears dead people
Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Faith no more, Dushku again communes with the dead on the FOX drama Tru Calling, playing a city morgue worker who relives the past to prevent her charges' deaths. Oddly, she has more prior experience in the dead zone: As a child she frolicked among the caskets in a funeral home owned by her best friend's family. "It wasn't frightening," she says. "It was just matter-of-fact."
Dushku fell into acting at 10, after tagging along to her older brother Nate's audition. "I tripped, got a bloody nose and I was an instant drama queen," she recalls. "The casting director went, 'Who is this kid?'"
She played tough in True Lies and Buffy, but "in between takes, she'll be reading The Economist," says Tru creator Jon Feldman.
Shooting Tru in Vancouver "was the perfect change for me," says Dushku. After a recent split, "I'm single for the first time since I was 16. I'm in charge of my own life entirely, and it feels great." |
