#Fact1Endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Presidential Election of the United States.2She Had a Role in the Since Suspended Gregg Allman Biopic, Midnight...
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Endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential election of the United States.
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She had a role in the since suspended Gregg Allman biopic, Midnight Rider. Production was halted after 1 crew member killed and 7 others were injured when they were hit by a freight train on the first day of filming.
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She is of Teutonic Germanic, Celtic, Pelasgian and Illyrian ancestry.
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Filming season 2 of Dollhouse (2009) in California. [August 2009]
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Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California, shooting Nobel Son (2007). [October 2005]
In Spain shooting her new horror movie Open Graves (2009), also co-starring Mike Vogel. [October 2006]
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Playing the character of Van's sister in the off-Broadway play "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead" at the Century Center for the Performing Arts (New York, New York, USA). [December 2005]
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She has always done theater acts. She was part of the Watertown Children's Theater since she was in the first grade and she still sometimes acts on stage at the Children's Theatre signing for the deaf. In late 2005, Eliza was in the off Broadway play Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.
Her height is 5' 5" (1.65m) but in Tru Calling (2003), Eliza (as Tru) said she was 5'4" tall, making herself an inch shorter than she really is.
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She was interviewed, for a part in a movie Mel Gibson was producing, when she was eleven. She was also considered for the role of "Paige Matthews" on Charmed (1998).
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She is a CEO of her own production company Boston Diva Productions.
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She got hooked on smoking when she was 15 years old, after she had to smoke for a role.
Ranked #21 in the 2010 FHM UK list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
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Considers herself a huge Boston Red Sox baseball fan.
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Ranked #38 on FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World (2011).
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She ranked #26 on "Maxim's Hot 100 of 2010".
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Has the words "Lead Kindly Light" as a tattoo. A hymn written in 1833 by John Henry Newman.
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Is good friends with Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and Angel (1999) co-star Julie Benz, although the two never appeared together in an episode of either show. Dushku has said that she would love for Benz to appear in an episode of Dollhouse (2009).
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Her devoutly religious Mormon grandmother once tried to call powerful Hollywood super-agent Michael Ovitz (who headed the agency that then represented Dushku) to complain about a sex scene that her granddaughter participated in on the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997).
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Of the three leads in Bring It On (2000), she was the only one who wasn't a cheerleader in high school.
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Says when she was a young child, her best friend lived in a funeral home and they would often hang out in the mortuary after school, thus desensitizing her to the image of dead bodies. She comments, "It was very "Six Feet Under"".
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When she was told her naturally deep, husky voice was destroying her vocal chords, she went to a vocal coach to learn to speak in a higher register.
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Ranked #11 on Wizard magazine's "Sexiest Women of TV" list (March 2008).
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Eliza's father is Albanian. Eliza's maternal grandparents were both of half Danish ancestry, and Eliza's mother's other ancestry is Irish, English, and German.
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Has been working with an acting coach, Peter Kelley, since she was a child.
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Her maternal grandfather Richard Costley Rasmussen died at March 30th 2006. He was survived by his wife, Barbara Porter Hegsted.
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She went to an audition for the part of Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man (2002). In one of the specials of the Spider-Man (2002) DVD you can see her reading opposite Tobey Maguire. The role later on went to Kirsten Dunst, after Kate Hudson declined the offer. Alicia Witt was actually set to play that part in the end, but when Sam Raimi saw Kirsten Dunst, who was a last minute audition, he chose her.
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Was featured as #13 in Maxim Magazine's "Hot 100 of 2002" supplement. (2002)
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Named #46 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement (2005).
She ranked #76 (2002) in FHM-USA's 100 Sexiest Women.
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She ranked #44 (2000), #13 (2001), #28 (2002) and #63 (2003) in Stuff's Sexiest Women.
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She ranked #13 (2002) in Maxim's 100 Sexiest Women.
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Attended the San Diego Comic Convention on July 25th, 2004, for a Q&A session.
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She attended the John Kerry fund raiser on July, 2004.
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Stated in an interview that she is terrified of flying and will only do so if she has religious artifacts with her.
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She did a political, social, and economic study of women in post-apartheid South Africa with her mother.
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The tattoo she wore as Faith was fake.
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For a long period of time, she refused to do nude scenes. She once stated "You have a better chance of seeing God than me naked". Still, in 2008, she appeared topless in the film The Alphabet Killer (2008).
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Planned to attended Suffolk University and be an English major, but she backed out at the last minute after she landed the role of Faith in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997).
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She started her career by getting hurt at one of her brother Nate Dushku's auditions and impressing the talent scouts with her emphasized drama.
She used to have a German shepherd-husky-beagle mix named Korbit. Now she has 2 dogs, a golden named Max Factor and a Bernese named Rigby Idaho.
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She always takes the back of her director's chair (the chair personalized with her name) after a shoot as a souvenir.
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While on location, she surrounds herself with pictures of family and friends.
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Her mother, Judy (born Judith Rasmussen), is a university administrator-professor at Suffolk University; her Father, Philip R. Dushku, is an administrator-teacher in the Boston Public Schools.
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Voted the 9th Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine September 2002.
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