Trivia

Has been sober for eight and a half years. [March 2017].

When she was told her naturally deep, husky voice was destroying her vocal cords, she went to a vocal coach to learn to speak in a higher register.

(March 8, 2017) Admitted that she is an alcoholic and was a drug addict for a lot of years. She stopped using drugs after many of her friends died from using.

She is a CEO of her own production company Boston Diva Productions.

Was legally emancipated from her parents because of the restrictive laws that limit the hours that a minor is allowed to work.

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"".

Is close friends with Sarah Michelle Gellar.

She always takes the back of her director's chair (the chair personalized with her name) after a shoot as a souvenir.

She started her career by getting hurt at one of her brother's (Nate Dushku) auditions and impressing the talent scouts with her emphasized drama.

Turned down a Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) spin-off (based on her character, Faith) for her role on Tru Calling (2003).

Of the three leads in Bring It On (2000), she was the only one who wasn't a cheerleader in high school.

Jamie Lee Curtis is her idol.

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).

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).

(August 18, 2018) Married her longtime boyfriend Peter Palandjian in a romantic outdoors ceremony in Boston following a 14-month engagement.

Planned to attend 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).

Was once addicted to opiates.

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).

While filming Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), was called Duck Shoot by director Kevin Smith after he mispronounced her last name accidentally.

She got hooked on smoking when she was 15 years old after she had to smoke for a role.

Attended Suffolk University, where she's pursued a bachelor's degree in sociology. [March 2017].

She had a role in the since suspended Gregg Allman biopic, Midnight Rider. Production was halted after 1 crew member, Sarah Jones, was killed and 7 others were injured when they were hit by a freight train on the first day of filming.

Her favorite movie is The Godfather (1972).

Addressed 8,000 middle and high school students at the first New Hampshire Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness [March 2017].

Her drug use occurred during her appearances on Buffy, Angel, and Tru Calling.

Her mother, Judith Dushku, is a Professor of Government at Suffolk University.

Stated in an interview that she is terrified of flying and will only do so if she has religious artifacts with her.

Mother of Philip "Bourne" Dushku Palandjian (b. July 2019) with her husband Peter Palandjian.

Was in a relationship with Rick Fox from 2009 to 2014.

She was interviewed for a part in a movie Mel Gibson was producing when she was eleven. She also was considered for the role of "Paige Matthews" on Charmed (1998).

She has appeared in episodes of 3 different series with Alexis Denisof: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), Angel (1999) and Dollhouse (2009). All 3 series were created by Joss Whedon.

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.

The tattoo she wore as Faith was fake.

Her last name is pronounced DUSH-koo and rhymes with "push."

She did a political, social, and economic study of women in post-apartheid South Africa with her mother.

While on location, she surrounds herself with pictures of family and friends.

She was a tomboy growing up.

Her mother, Judy (born Judith Ann Rasmussen), was a university administrator-professor at Suffolk University; her father, Philip Richard George Dushku, was an administrator-teacher in the Boston Public Schools. He died on June 16, 2018, after a long illness.

She used to have a German shepherd-husky-beagle mix named Korbit. Subsequently, got 2 dogs, a golden named Max Factor and a Bernese named Rigby Idaho.

Her father is Albanian. Her maternal grandparents were both of half-Danish ancestry, and her mother's other ancestry is Irish, English, and German.

Has the words "Lead Kindly Light" as a tattoo. A hymn written in 1833 by John Henry Newman.

Considers herself a huge Boston Red Sox baseball fan.

She always has done theater acts. She began in the Watertown Children's Theater when 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.

Has worked with both halves of the Buffy season-five bad guy Glory/Ben outside of the Buffy show: Clare Kramer in Bring It On (2000) and Charlie Weber in The Kiss (2003).

She is of Teutonic Germanic, Celtic, Pelasgian and Illyrian ancestry.

The only family with the Dushku surname in the United States of America in 1920 was living in Massachusetts according to US census.

Hosted the 2005 Winter Venatian Masquerade in New York.

She ranked #26 on "Maxim's Hot 100 of 2010".

Has been working with an acting coach, Peter Kelley, since she was a child.

Has four step-children: Manon Palandjian, Petros Palandjian, Margot Palandjian, and Madelon Palandjian.