Sci-Fi Babe Spotlight: Eliza Dushku

She’s killed vampires, kicked terrorist ass with Arnold Schwarzenegger, battled bitchy cheerleaderse, helped dead people get justice, and now she’s your perfect dream girl in Dollhouse — basically, she can be anyone you want, even if it’s just to piss some people off at your ex-girlfriend’s wedding. And oh yeah, ass kicking. Did I mention that Eliza Dushku does that pretty well, too? So of course, those are the perfect qualifications for our Sci-Fi Babe Spotlight. And even if it wasn’t, well, we would have fudged it to make it fit, anyway.

Her bio via Wikipedia:

Eliza Patricia Dushku (born December 30, 1980) is an American actress who…came to the attention of casting agents when she was 10. She was chosen at the end of a five month search throughout the United States for the lead role of Alice, playing with Juliette Lewis in the film That Night. In 1993, Dushku landed a role as Pearl alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in This Boy’s Life, a role that she said opened a lot of doors. The following year, she played the teenage daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. She also had parts as Paul Reiser’s daughter in Bye Bye, Love, as Cindy Johnson with Halle Berry and Jim Belushi in Race the Sun, as well as roles in a television movie and a short film.

In 2003, Dushku appeared in Wrong Turn, a horror film in which she had the starring role, and The Kiss, an independent comedy-drama. Starting that same year, she also starred in a new Fox TV series, Tru Calling, where she played the main character, medical student Tru Davies. After having a grant pulled out from under her, Tru is forced to take a job at a local morgue where she discovers her power to “re-live” the previous day over again and uses it to bring murderers to justice. Dushku turned down a role for which she would have been in a spin-off of Buffy The Vampire Slayer (that would have been about Faith).

She will co-star along with Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Chris Pine and Rachel Taylor in Bottle Shock, a drama about the Napa Industry of wine. The movie is directed by Randall Miller, who helmed Nobel Son. On August 26, 2007, Dushku signed a development deal with Fox Broadcasting and 20th Century Fox. Under the pact, the network and the studio will develop projects tailor-made for the actress. They also will approach her with existing pitches and scripts. Consequently, it was announced on October 31 that Dushku had lured Joss Whedon, famous for creating the Buffy The Vampire Slayer series, back to TV, as they agreed to create a new show called Dollhouse. Dushku will play the main character ‘Echo’ and serve as a producer on the show, which will air on Fox during the 2008-09 TV Season.