Actress Eliza Dushku

Eliza Dushku is an actress known primarily for her television work - most notably for her stint in a cult classic.

She starred as Faith in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the series about teenage girls chosen to fight the forces of supernatural evil.  Faith was a foil to and a rival of Buffy, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, but Faith often made the wrong decisions.  She also starred in "Angel," the spinoff about a vampire (Angel, the title character) tormented by a restored soul.

Her movie roles include a teenager named Gina, the girlfriend of a young man (played by James Franco) dealing with his past a in the 2002 drama City By the Sea and a role in 2007's Nobel Son, a black comedy about a family dealing with how to pay the ransom for the son after the father has won the Nobel Chemistry Prize.

An Albanian-American, Ms. Dushku turned documentarian with Dear Albania, a film in which she travels through different towns in Albania itself and also Albanian-majority towns in parts of the former Yugoslavia, including Kosovo.  She also co-produced the 2018 biographical film Mapplethorpe, about the controversial photographer of that name.