Eliza DushkuFilmography

Open Graves

Actors: Eliza Dushku, Mike Vogel

The Alphabet Killer

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Eliza Dushku, Cary Elwes, Timothy Hutton, Tom Malloy, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Wrong Turn director Rob Schmidt takes the helm for this thriller inspired by the grim true-life exploits of an alphabet-obsessed New York serial killer and starring Timothy Hutton, Cary Elwes, Eliza Dushku, and Michael Ironside. When Rochester, NY-based police investigator Megan Paige (Dushku) Read More

Nobel Son

Actors: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Eliza Dushku

Synopsis: A young man's moment of triumph is spoiled when he gets kidnapped before he can impress his father in this black comedy. Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman), a well-respected scientist, has learned that he's won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, which is a mixed blessing for his friends and family; while Read More

Bottle Shock

Actors: Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, Bill Pullman, Rachael Taylor, Freddy Rodriguez, Dennis Farina

Synopsis: Brought together by a curious twist of fate on a dusty California road, a wandering vintner and a struggling winemaker find both their lives, and their careers, forever transformed at a blind Parisian wine tasting that introduced the world to the extraordinary wines of Napa Valley. The year is Read More

On Broadway

Actors: Amy Poehler, Eliza Dushku, Joe McIntyre, Lance Greene, Lucas Caleb Rooney

Synopsis: His uncle having recently died in his arms after a hard fall from a high roof, a Boston carpenter decides to pen a play about the funeral despite having no previous theater experience and only his instinct to guide him. Jack O'Toole was just an average guy from an average family, but the instant Read More

The Thacker Case

Sex and Breakfast

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Kuno Becker, Eliza Dushku, Alexis Dziena, Joanna Miles

Synopsis: Four people get a crash course in the difference between love and desire in this independent drama. Ellis (Kuno Becker) and Renee (Eliza Dushku) are a young couple who've grown tired of one another, and though they're still in love, they aren't sure how to reignite the spark in their relationship. Read More

Mamba

Actors: Eliza Dushku, Mike Vogel, Naike Rivelli, Gary Piquer, Alex O'Dogherty, Martxelo Rubio

Synopsis: When a fun-loving group of wave-riding students discover a Satanic board game called Mamba, they quickly discover that to lose the game is to lose their lives in first-time director Alvaro de Arminian's infernal tale of innocent play gone horribly awry. Eliza Dushku and Mike Vogel headline an Read More

Tru Calling: Season 02

Actors: Eliza Dushku, Shawn Reaves, Zach Galifianakis

Wrong Turn

Actors: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegers

Synopsis: A turn down an uncharted dirt road leads six young people into a night of pure terror in this horror story. Chris (Desmond Harrington) is driving through West Virginia on his way to a job interview when an auto accident slows highway traffic to a near standstill. Afraid he'll be late, Chris takes Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Dirty Girls

Synopsis: Following their joint adventures in Los Angeles (see Angel, "Orpheus"), sorceress Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and slayer Faith (Eliza Dushku) find their drive home to Sunnydale interrupted by the machinations of Caleb (Nathan Fillion), a murderous preacher who's turned away from God and toward The Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Empty Places

Actors: Emma Caulfield

Synopsis: As Xander (Nicholas Brendon) recovers at the hospital from having his eye gouged out by evil preacher Caleb (Nathan Fillion), Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) licks her own wounds and deals with the emotional fallout of having dragged her friends and the potentials into an ambush. Meanwhile, the Read More

Angel: Orpheus

Synopsis: Angelus (David Boreanaz) drinks deep from Faith (Eliza Dushku), then keels over. It seems the slayer and ally Wesley (Alexis Denisof) spiked her blood with a mystical drug called Orpheus, then deliberately allowed Angelus to drink it. The vampire ends up unconscious and hallucinating, while Faith Read More

Angel: Salvage

Synopsis: Wesley (Alexis Denisof) and the others return to the hotel to find the gleeful Angelus (David Boreanaz) sucking Lilah (Stephanie Romanov) dry. After Angelus flees, an incensed Connor (Vincent Kartheiser) vows to kill his evil father, unaware that the injured Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) is Read More

Angel: Release

Synopsis: Hiding out from the others upstairs in the hotel, evil Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) continues to manipulate Connor (Vincent Kartheiser) into protecting her and their unborn child. When her little plaything isn't around, the duplicitous mom-to-be also plays cat and mouse with Angelus (David Boreanaz Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Touched

Actors: Emma Caulfield

Synopsis: As a broken-down Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) searches for someplace to sleep, Faith (Eliza Dushku) struggles to find her voice as leader of the potentials. Eventually, she assumes the mantle of command and settles on a scheme to kidnap one of The First's weakest breed of minions: the blind, mute Read More

The Kiss

Actors: Terence Stamp, Francoise Surel, Eliza Dushku, Billy Zane, Illeana Douglas

Synopsis: In this independent romantic drama, Cara Thompson (Francoise Surel) is a young woman who has recently landed a job at a publishing house. Cara's job is to read manuscripts, most of which aren't very good, but by chance she runs across a novel which had been submitted 20 years before. Cara is Read More

Tru Calling: Season 01

Actors: Eliza Dushku, Shawn Reaves, Zach Galifianakis, A.J. Cook, Jessica Collins

Synopsis: In the opening episode of Tru Calling's first season, impoverished medical grad student Tru Davies (Eliza Dushku) takes a night-shift job at a Boston morgue. In short order, she discovers that she has the ability to communicate with one of the corpses -- which leads to the discovery of another Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chosen

Actors: Emma Caulfield

Synopsis: Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) interrupts her tender reunion with Angel (David Boreanaz) long enough to dispatch Caleb (Nathan Fillion) quite violently once and for all. Afterward, Angel says he can smell Spike (James Marsters) on Buffy. The Slayer admits that Spike now has a soul and is "in her Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: End of Days

Actors: Emma Caulfield

Synopsis: Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) again faces off with Caleb (Nathan Fillion), this time armed with a powerful new weapon: the Scythe, which she slides effortlessly from its rocky resting place, Excalibur-style. But before Buffy can deploy her new toy, Caleb reveals that Faith (Eliza Dushku) and the Read More

City by the Sea

Actors: Robert De Niro, Frances McDormand, James Franco, Eliza Dushku

Synopsis: A man struggling to come to terms with the sins of his father makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime in a drama based on a true story. Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great Read More

The New Guy

Actors: D.J. Qualls, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel, Lyle Lovett, Jerod Mixon, Eddie Griffin

Synopsis: Former Prada model and Road Trip co-star D.J. Qualls makes a bid for leading man status in this nerd-makeover comedy. Qualls stars as Dizzy, a dorky but delinquent high school student who's determined to get expelled from his hellish high school -- but ends up landing in jail instead. There he Read More

King of the Hill: Get Your Freak Off

Soul Survivors

Actors: Melissa Sagemiller, Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley, Eliza Dushku, Angela Featherstone, Luke Wilson

Synopsis: This entry in the perennially popular teen horror genre is from writer/director Steve Carpenter and the producers of I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Urban Legend (1998). Melissa Sagemiller stars as Cassie, a college freshman trying to get over the death of her boyfriend Sean (Casey Read More

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Actors: Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Ben Affleck, Shannon Elizabeth

Synopsis: The frequently recurring title characters, employed by writer and director Kevin Smith as supporting players in several of his films, are put to rest with this comedy that focuses on them exclusively. Jay (Jason Mews) and Silent Bob (Smith) are a pair of stoned New Jersey slackers who have long Read More

Bring It On

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford, Gabrielle Union, Clare Kramer

Synopsis: The hard work, dedication, and personal politics behind "rah rah rah!" and "sis boom bah!" go under the microscope in this engaging teen comedy. Torrance Shipman (Kirsten Dunst) discovers that being captain of her San Diego high school's six-time championship-winning cheerleading squad is more Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: This Year's Girl

Angel: Five by Five

Actors: Elisabeth Röhm, Julie Benz

Synopsis: Christian Kane, who appeared as an unnamed Wolfram & Hart attorney in "City of Angels," makes the first of several return appearances here; his character's name is revealed to be Lindsey McDonald. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Who Are You?

Synopsis: Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) finds herself inside Faith's (Eliza Dushku) body and being carted off on a gurney by the police. Having used a mystical Katra to switch her body with Buffy's, Faith marvels at her perfect disguise, mocking Buffy's do-gooder persona in front of the Summers' bathroom Read More

Angel: Judgement

Actors: Andy Hallett

Synopsis: A vision from Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) sends Angel (David Boreanaz) to the rescue of a pregnant woman (Justina Machado) who appears to be in danger from a nearby demon. After Angel kills the beast, however, it turns out it was actually protecting the woman from the Tribunal, a mysterious Read More

Angel: Sanctuary

Actors: Elisabeth Röhm, Christian Kane

Synopsis: After Faith (Eliza Dushku) surrenders herself (see "Five by Five"), Angel (David Boreanaz) decides to try to rehabilitate her, incurring the wrath of Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) and Wesley (Alexis Denisof), the latter of whom was recently tortured by the rogue slayer. Angel's ex-girlfriend and Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Enemies

Synopsis: Featuring more subterfuge than a Shakespearean comedy, the good slayer/bad slayer plot thickens as Faith (Eliza Dushka) and the Mayor (Harry Groener) plan to take away Angel's (David Boreanaz) soul. Meanwhile, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Giles (Anthony Stewart Head), and the rest of the gang Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Consequences

Synopsis: Episode 49 finds Faith (Eliza Dushka) descending deeper into her slayer psychosis, causing Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) to have a nightmare. In it, Buffy is drowning with the dead Finch (Jack Plotnick); she awakens to find that Finch's body has been found, and the Mayor (Harry Groener) is vowing Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day, Part Two

Synopsis: Failing to cure Angel (David Boreanaz) with Faith's (Eliza Dushka) blood, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) decides to sacrifice herself. Ignoring the obvious dangers, Buffy forces Angel to feed on her blood. Although her friends are angry at her for foolishly risking her life, they all team up Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day, Part One

Synopsis: This seminal two-part episode features the end to the characters' high school careers. As the Mayor (Harry Groener) prepares for the Ascension, so do Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her friends -- with the help of former demon Anya (Emma Caulfield). Buffy assumes that she has to miss graduation Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Choices

Synopsis: On orders from the Mayor (Harry Groener), Faith (Eliza Dushku) retrieves the Box of Gavrok and returns it to him. Buffy soon learns of the box, an apparent accoutrement for the Ascension -- see "Graduation Day, Pt. 1." She decides to curtail the Mayor's efforts and employs Willow (Alyson Hannigan) Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Bad Girls

Synopsis: Episode 48 finds Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) falling under the negative influence of maverick slayer Faith (Eliza Dushka). The episode is also noteworthy for the introduction of Buffy's new Watcher, Wesley (Alexis Denisof), a young and unwelcome administrative type who views Giles' training Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Zeppo

Synopsis: An occult group, the Sisterhood of Jhe, is attempting to open the Hellmouth and bring about the end of the world -- so what else is new? Xander (Nicholas Brendon) recieves a good wolloping in a fight with the Sisterhood and the rest of Buffy's (Sarah Michelle Gellar) gang suggests he opt out of Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Doppelgangland

Synopsis: Angry over being human and still only in the 12th grade, Anya (Emma Caulfield) enlists Willow (Alyson Hannigan) to help her get her amulet back. Their spell goes wrong, and, instead of the amulet, brings vampire Willow back (see "The Wish"). Soon, vamp Willow recruits some vampire henchmen, takes Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Amends

Synopsis: It's Christmas time in Sunnydale and like Scrooge, Angel (David Boreanaz) is being haunted by the ghosts of his past victims, namely Jenny Calendar (Robia La Morte). He seeks help from Giles (Anthony Head), and later even shares a dream with Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), where he bites her. Jenny Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Faith, Hope & Trick

Synopsis: Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is finally readmitted to Sunnydale High by Principal Snyder (Armin Shimerman). Buffy also flirts with Scott Hope (Fab Filippo) a cute senior. Buffy's mood is brightening until the arrival of the slick Mr. Trick (K. Todd Freeman) and the ancient and demonic-looking Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Revelations

Synopsis: Faith's (Eliza Dushku) new Watcher, Mrs. Gwendolyn Post (Serena Scott Thomas), arrives from England. She reveals that she is in Sunnydale not only to look after Faith, but also to stop the demon Lagos from acquiring the Glove of Mynegon -- a weapon. Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) -- who has not Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Beauty and the Beasts

Synopsis: Faith (Eliza Dushku) thinks that a raging beast exists in all men; i.e., men are all dogs. Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) doesn't agree, but when a boy is discovered mutilated, all signs point toward Buffy's friend, Oz (Seth Green), relegated to a cage in the library during the three nights a year Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Homecoming

Synopsis: It's Homecoming at Sunnydale High and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) is determined to be crowned Homecoming Queen. As Angel (David Boreanaz) is still chained up in his mansion, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) accepts Scott's (Fab Filippo) invitation to the dance. Cordelia's self-involved behavior Read More

Race the Sun

Actors: Steve Zahn, Halle Berry, James Belushi, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku, Kevin Tighe

Synopsis: Loosely based on a true account, this family drama centers on a group of aimless Hawaiian teens who with the support of two inspirational teachers turn their lives around by building a solar powered car and racing it across the Australian outback during the World Solar Challenge. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Journey

Synopsis: Jason Robards and Meg Tilly star in this acclaimed made-for-TV family drama in which an 11-year-old farm boy named Journey comes to live with his crusty grandfather after his mother leaves. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Bye Bye, Love

Actors: Matthew Modine, Randy Quaid, Paul Reiser, Janeane Garofalo, Rob Reiner

Synopsis: Three divorced fathers, played by Paul Reiser, Matthew Modine, and Randy Quaid, experience the joys and hardships of their former marriages, their relationships with their kids, and getting back into the dating scene in this whimsical comedy. Dave (Modine) is diligently playing the field, while Read More

True Lies

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere

Synopsis: Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture, domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd-pleasing ball of entertainment. Producer James Cameron wrote and directed the film. Henry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a workaholic computer salesman Read More

This Boy's Life

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku

Synopsis: A single mother and her difficult son find family life isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be in this drama adapted from writer and professor Tobias Wolff's 1989 memoir of the same name. Nomadic, flaky Caroline (Ellen Barkin) just wants to settle down in one place, find a decent guy, and Read More

That Night

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Juliette Lewis, Helen Shaver, Eliza Dushku, John Dossett

Synopsis: Screenwriter Craig Bolotin takes a first stab at directing with That Night, a romantic reminiscence of teen love in 1960s Long Island based on a novel by Alice McDermott. Alice (Eliza Dushku) is a reserved, introspective 12-year-old girl who idealizes her neighbor, high-school student Sheryl (Juliette Lewis Read More