American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

American Actress Eliza Dushku

Eliza Dushku Profile:
Name: Eliza Dushku
Born:  December 30, 1980
Birth place: Watertown, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality:  American, Albanian
Occupation:  Actress

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

Eliza Patricia Dushku (play /ˈdʊʃkuː/; born December 30, 1980) is an American actress known for her television roles, including recurring appearances as Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series Angel. She starred in two Fox series, Tru Calling and Dollhouse. She is also known for her role in films including True Lies, The New Guy, Bring It On, Wrong Turn and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Early life
Dushku was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Philip R. Dushku, an administrator and teacher in the Boston Public Schools, and Judith "Judy" (née Rasmussen), a political science professor. Dushku's father is Albanian and her mother is of Danish and English descent. Dushku attended Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, and graduated from Watertown High School. She was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the faith of her mother, though she is not practicing. She has three older brothers: Aaron, Benjamin (Ben), and Nathaniel (Nate). Her parents divorced when she was an infant

Career
Early career

Actress Eliza Dushku

Dushku came to the attention of casting agents when she was 10. She was chosen in a five month search for the lead role of Alice 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 had parts as Paul Reiser's daughter in Bye Bye Love, as Cindy Johnson in Race the Sun, and roles in a television movie and a short film.

Dushku took time off from acting to finish her junior and senior years of high school. She was accepted to the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and Suffolk University in Boston, where her mother serves as professor of government and previously served as dean of the campus in Dakar, Senegal.
Later roles
After completing high school, Dushku returned to acting with the role of Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a Slayer much more troubled than the main character Buffy Summers. Though initially planned as a five 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, after which the remainder of her original story arc was played out as part of the first season of the Buffy spin-off series Angel. Repentant and rededicated, Faith returned as a heroine in other episodes of Angel and in the last five episodes of Buffy. Dushku was inundated with piles of fan mail from legions of prisoners. She said:

I've been getting fan mail from maximum security penitentiaries and death row. 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. 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 moustache, and a big gut. It's so creepy. Way more creepy than Buffy.

In 2000, Dushku starred in the hit cheerleader comedy Bring It On. She followed that up with Soul Survivors, reuniting her with Race The Sun co-star Casey Affleck. One reviewer described the film as "84 minutes of everyone's wasted time". In 2001, she appeared in The New Guy with DJ Qualls and City by the Sea with Robert De Niro and James Franco. The latter film garnered attention from a wider adult audience and several good reviews. The same year, Kevin Smith invited Dushku to be a part of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

In 2003, Dushku starred the horror film Wrong Turn, and The Kiss, an independent comedy-drama. Starting that same year, she 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 if one of the deceased asks for her help to change what has happened. Dushku turned down a role in a spin-off of Buffy The Vampire Slayer which would have been about Faith. She has had many roles as a "bad girl" in movies and relishes the opportunities. In an interview with Maxim in May 2001, Dushku says of her roles, "It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting."

Eliza Dushku

Dushku starred in an Off-Broadway production entitled Dog Sees God from December 2005, playing "Van's sister", a character paralleled with Lucy Van Pelt from the Peanuts comic strip on which the play production is based. She quit in February 2006 along with other members of the cast amidst rumors of abuse from the producer (which were later dismissed).

She played the lead character on Nurses, a hospital comedy/drama for Fox. This was the second Fox pilot in which she was cast, but not broadcast. She appeared in the Simple Plan music video, "I'm Just a Kid", as the band's love interest, as well as Nickelback's video for "Rockstar".

Dushku has roles in two video games. She voiced the role of Yumi Sawamura in the English language version of Yakuza for the PlayStation 2, which was published and developed by SEGA, and released in September 2006. Dushku also stars as Shaundi, one of the lead characters in Saints Row 2, which was developed by Volition and published by THQ. It was released in North America on October 14, 2008, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. She was the voice talent for the role of Rubi Malone, the main character in the game WET. She appeared at Spike TV's 2008 Video Game Awards in December 2008.

More recent work
On October 1, 2005, she announced at Wizard World Boston that shooting had begun for Nobel Son in which she would star with Alan Rickman, Danny DeVito, Bill Pullman, and Peter Boyle. The movie was released at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Another project is On Broadway, an independent movie filmed in her native Boston. The movie is receiving great reviews and a few of them highlight Dushku's performance. It is shown in independent film festivals and has won six awards.

Variety announced on August 2, 2006 that Dushku would co-star with Macaulay Culkin in Sex and Breakfast, a dark comedy written and directed by Miles Brandman. A reviewer described Dushku as "charming" and giving the character "an edge." The movie was released in Los Angeles on November 30, 2007 and on DVD on January 22, 2008. She starred in Open Graves, a 2008 horror-thriller about a satanic game co-starring Mike Vogel. She played the main character in The Thacker Case and The Alphabet Killer, both thrillers based on real-life events, one of them directed by Rob Schmidt with whom she had worked on Wrong Turn. Both movies were released in 2008. The Alphabet Killer contains Dushku's first topless scene. The film earned mixed reviews, but reviewers praised Dushku's performance, commenting "Eliza Dushku commands the screen but cannot reconcile the script's conflicted and increasingly idiotic agendas." She appeared in Bottle Shock, a drama about Napa valley wine. The film was 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 would develop projects tailor-made for the actress. They approached her with existing pitches and scripts.

Consequently, it was announced on October 31 that Dushku had lured Joss Whedon, of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, back to TV, as they agreed to create a show called Dollhouse. Dushku produced the show and played the main character, 'Echo', which aired on Fox during the 2008–09 TV Season. One TV reviewer said Dushku "does wonderful things to a tank top, but her grasp of this vague, personality-changing character is a bit of a muddle." In an interview, Dushku talked about how Dollhouse, and how her reconnection with Whedon came about:

I invited Joss Whedon to lunch after I did the business deal with Fox. We'd had a cool relationship in the past and I so wanted to do something else, and I wanted to get back into a television show. I had him on the brain for sure but I hadn't called him yet, but I sort of took a leap of faith and set things up with Fox and then called Joss. We went to a four-hour lunch where I just sort of used my womanly wiles. No, we've become such good friends, kind of like brother and sister and kind of like he was my watcher, my handler from when I first moved out to L.A. when I was 17 and I was a little bit of a wild child. He's watched me and helped me and taught me over the years. I told him how bad I wanted and needed him back and he accepted and here we are.

Dushku described Whedon as "my favorite genius ... favorite friend ... big brother ... and the only person out here I've ever wholeheartedly trusted, because he's never let me down." Dollhouse was renewed for a second season. The producers cited their confidence in the strength of Joss Whedon's fan base and high DVR numbers as their reasons for keeping the show. FOX cancelled Dollhouse on November 11, 2009. The show officially wrapped filming on the second and final season on December 16, 2009.

Dushku was the voice actor for contract killer "Rubi Malone" in the action video game Wet. Dushku secured exclusive rights to make "The Perfect Moment", a film based on the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and enlisted the help of Ondi Timoner.

Dushku provides her voice for Noah's Ark: The New Beginning and will appear in the film Locked In set for release in 2010.

Dushku guest-starred in CBS' comedy The Big Bang Theory in the fall of 2010 which aired on November 4, 2010.

In 2011, Dushku featured alongside Jayson Floyd in "One Shot", a short action clip on YouTube directed by and starring Freddie Wong, which was released on May 13, 2011. Dushku will have a lead role in an online animated "motion comic" series, titled Torchwood: Web of Lies, based on Starz' upcoming Torchwood: Miracle Day.

In August 2011, Dushku visited Albania to film a documentary on her father's country of origin with a crew from the Travel Channel and Lonely Planet. She applied for Albanian citizenship and obtained the Albanian passport and ID Card. She was given the honorary title of Tirana Ambassador of Culture and Tourism in the World by mayor Lulzim Basha. In her father's home town of Korce, she was awarded honorary citizen status.

Personal life
Dushku resides in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California.
Dushku is the CEO of her production company, Boston Diva Productions
In 2006, she visited her father's family in Albania after an invitation from the Prime Minister of Albania, Sali Berisha. She visited Kosovo and got an Albanian Eagle tattoo on the back of her neck.
Dushku began dating former Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Rick Fox in October 2009, and in August 2010 the couple confirmed that they are living together.

Awards and nominations
She was twice nominated in 2004: for a Teen Choice Award at the Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Star – Female for Tru Calling and for a Saturn Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films at the 30th Saturn Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series for Tru Calling.
Maxim magazine ranked Dushku 6th on the "Hot 100 Women of 2009" list.
Dushku was nominated in 2009 for a Scream Award for Best Science Fiction Actress for her role of Echo

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku

 

 

 American Actress Eliza Dushku



 American Actress Eliza Dushku

American Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy

Brittany Murphy Profile:
Name: Brittany Murphy
Alternative Names: Britt, Brittany Anne Murphy Bertolotti Monjack
Date of Birth: 10 November 1977
Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia
Nationality: American
Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
Eye Color: Brown - Light
Hair Color: Brown - Dark
Star Sign: Scorpio
Claim to Fame: Clueless
Occupation: Actress & Singer

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy 

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

Biography for Brittany Murphy
Brittany Anne Murphy (born Brittany Bertolotti; Nov. 10, 1977 (34 years ago)) is an American actress and recording artist. She has starred in movies such as Just Married; Clueless; Girl, Interrupted; 8 Mile; Sin City; The Dead Girl; Uptown Girls; Happy Feet; Riding in Cars with Boys and Spun. Murphy's debut album is set to be released in 2009 (2 years ago).

Early life
Murphy was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of Sharon Murphy, who is of Irish and Eastern European descent, and Angelo Bertolotti, an Italian American. Murphy's parents divorced shortly after her birth, and she was raised in Edison, New Jersey, and Burbank, California, by her single, working-class mother; she has had little contact with her father since the divorce. Murphy was raised a Baptist and attended a Lutheran school, but is now a non-denominational practicing Christian.
When she was nine years old, Murphy landed a singing role in a musical version of Les Misérables, and had signed on with a manager by the time she turned thirteen. Her mother, Sharon was diagnosed with breast cancer when Brittany was 15. She survived after having a double mastectomy.

Acting

Singer Brittany Murphy

Murphy landed her first job in Hollywood when she was fourteen, starring as Brenda Drexell in the TV series Drexell's Class. She then went on to play Molly Morgan in the short lived The Torkelsons spinoff Almost Home. In the Frasier episode "Give Him The Chair", she played a school child in a play of "10 Little Indians" who cannot remember her lines. She also had a small role in Season 3 of Boy Meets World as Topanga's best friend Trini, as well as guest starred on an episode of Nash Bridges. She was also the lead singer of the band Blessed With Soul in the early 1990s, and was at one time signed on to play late singer Janis Joplin in a biography, but the movie was not made because of legal disputes over music rights. Murphy has since starred in many successful films, including Clueless (1995, 16 years ago), Girl, Interrupted (1999, 12 years ago), Don't Say a Word (2001, 10 years ago), the TV adaption of the novel The Devil's Arithmetic (2001, 10 years ago), 8 Mile (2002, 9 years ago) and Uptown Girls (2003, 8 years ago) as well as many lesser-known films, such as Spun (2003, 8 years ago). She has also appeared on several TV series including the first season of Sister, Sister and as the voice of Luanne Platter (as well as the younger version of Joseph Gribble) on the long-running animated series King of the Hill.

In 2001 (10 years ago), Murphy cameoed in the music video for Wheatus' single "A Little Respect".

She most recently appeared in the movies Little Black Book (2004, 7 years ago), which was considered a critical and commercial failure, and the critically acclaimed Sin City (2005, 6 years ago). Also in 2005 (6 years ago), she appeared in the promo video for Tears for Fears' single Closest Thing to Heaven, and in Aug. 2005 (6 years ago), Brittany co-presented on UK music show CD:UK alongside Holly Willoughby.

Her most recent projects include The Ramen Girl and Across the Hall. She will be reprising her role as Shellie in Sin City 2. She has recently been cast in the Lifetime TV movie,"Tribute", as the main character, Cilla.

Actress  Brittany Murphy

Music
In the Spring of 2006 (5 years ago), Paul Oakenfold along with Brittany Murphy released the single "Faster Kill Pussycat", with the album A Lively Mind which was released on Jun. 6 in the United States. The song has become a club hit, and hit number one on Billboard magazine's Hot Dance Club Play chart. It also hit number seven in the UK singles chart in Jun. 2006 (5 years ago). She dabbled in music again with the release of her movie Happy Feet, in which she covered Queen's classic "Somebody to Love" and Earth, Wind & Fire's "Boogie Wonderland".

Brittany is currently working on her debut album, which is inspired by synth-pop sound. She is working with various producers and DJs including with Paul Oakenfold, Chris Cox, Max Martin and Timbaland. The album will be released adventitiously in 2009 (2 years ago).

Personal life
Actor Jonathan Brandis was Murphy's high school prom date. She dated Ashton Kutcher (6 walls), who was her co-star in Just Married. Once engaged to talent manager Jeff Kwatinetz, in dec. 2005 (6 years ago), Murphy became engaged to Joe Macaluso, a production assistant she met while working on her film, Little Black Book. In Aug. 2006 (5 years ago), they ended their engagement. In May 2007 (4 years ago), Murphy married screenwriter Simon Monjack in a private Jewish ceremony. A month before the wedding, Monjack had been arrested and was facing deportation due to visa expiration.

During 2005 (6 years ago), Murphy was the spokesmodel for Jordache jeans.

In 2006 (5 years ago), Murphy was voted 36th in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women List, 29th in Celebrity Sleuth magazine's 25 Sexiest List and in May of the same year, Maxim named Murphy #49 on its annual Hot 100 List.

Album
Brittany Murphy Debut Album (2009, 2 years ago)

Filmography
Film
Clueless
Freeway
Drive
Bongwater
King of the Hill
Phoenix
David and Lisa
The Prophecy II
Falling Sky
Girl, Interrupted
Drop Dead Gorgeous
The Devil's Arithmetic
Cherry Falls
Common Ground
Trixie
Sidewalks of New York
Don't Say a Word
Riding in Cars with Boys
Summer Catch
8 Mile
Uptown Girls
Spun
Just Married
Good Boy!
Little Black Book
Sin City
Neverwas
Love and Other Disasters
Happy Feet
The Groomsmen
The Dead Girl
The Ramen Girl
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
Across the Hall
Deadline
The Expendables
Sin City 2
The Revenant Cell
Source: en.wikipedia.org

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy 

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy 

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy 

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  

 

Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy  


Actress and Recording Artist Brittany Murphy