She has had many roles as a "bad girl" in movies. ![]() Dushku turned down a role in a spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer about Faith. After having a grant withdrawn, Tru is forced to take a job at a local morgue, where she discovers her power to "re-live" the previous day over again if one of the deceased asks for her help to change what has happened. Starting that same year, she starred in a new Fox supernatural drama, Tru Calling, where she played the main character, medical student Tru Davies. In 2003, Dushku starred in the horror film Wrong Turn and The Kiss, an independent comedy-drama. ![]() 2003–2008: Tru Calling and subsequent roles The same year, Kevin Smith invited Dushku to be a part of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. The latter film garnered attention from a wider adult audience and several good reviews. In 2001, she appeared in The New Guy with DJ Qualls and City by the Sea with Robert De Niro and James Franco. She followed that up with Soul Survivors, reuniting her with Race the Sun co-star Casey Affleck. In 2000, Dushku starred in the hit cheerleader comedy Bring It On. Way more creepy than Buffy.ĭushku at Wizard World Comic Con in Philadelphia (May 2004) And they send me pictures – "Oh, here's a picture of me before I was incarcerated!" – and there's some guy sat on the sofa with a bottle of beer and a mustache, and a big gut. What are the authorities thinking of in playing a show with young teenage girls to Death Row inmates? They write everything – disgusting things that you don't even want to know about. I've been getting fan mail from maximum security penitentiaries and death row. She also appeared in the spin-off series Angel.Īs an unwelcome effect of her portrayal as Faith, Dushku was inundated with fan mail from prisoners. ![]() Though initially planned as a three-episode role, the character became so popular that she stayed on for the whole third season and returned for a two-part appearance in season four and for the last five episodes of the series. She later recalled with amusement that the judge who handled her emancipation case, who was an avid fan of the show, jokingly said that she would sign the emancipation order if she could get a signed photo from Dushku. When she began her work on the series, Dushku was still a minor, and had to receive emancipation to work the production's long hours. After reading the script, Dushku rushed to a local Claire's to purchase dark makeup and other appropriate accessories for the part of Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 1998–2002: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and recognitionĭushku planned to attend Suffolk University in Boston, where her mother taught, but her agent asked her to submit a videotape audition for a television show starring another of his clients, Sarah Michelle Gellar. She had roles as Piper Reeves in the short film Fishing with George (1994) and as Cat in the television film Journey (1995), as Paul Reiser's daughter in the romantic comedy film Bye Bye Love (1995), and as Cindy Johnson in the comedy drama film Race the Sun (1996). The following year, she played the teenage daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in the action spy film True Lies. In 1993, Dushku landed a role as Pearl, alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, in the drama film This Boy's Life. She was chosen in a five-month search for the lead role of Alice in the 1992 romantic drama film That Night. ![]() Career Acting 1992–1997: Beginnings and breakthroughĭushku came to the attention of casting agents when she was ten years old. She attended Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and graduated from Watertown High School. Dushku's mother was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Dushku and her three brothers were raised as Mormons.
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