page_title: Eliza Dushku
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Eliza Dushku / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Actress Eliza Dushku at Fan Expo 2011 in Toronto.
context_page_description: Eliza Patricia Dushku is an American actress, model, and producer. She is best known for starring as Faith in the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off series Angel. She also had lead roles in the Fox supernatural drama series Tru Calling and the Fox science fiction series Dollhouse, for which she was a producer.
  Dushku had starring roles in various films, including True Lies, Bye Bye Love, Bring It On, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, The New Guy, Wrong Turn, On Broadway, The Scribbler, Jane Wants a Boyfriend, and Eloise. She has also done voice work for numerous video games and animated films.
context_section_description: Dushku was raised a Mormon, and still has a Mormon-themed tattoo but later described herself as having taken a different path from the LDS Church, but as grateful for having grown up in it.
  Dushku lived for more than 15 years in Los Angeles, though spending substantial time back in Watertown and Boston in the period before her stepfather died.  She lived for several years in Laurel Canyon area. 
  Having originally intended to attend college in Boston, before her big break on Buffy altered those plans, she announced in March 2014 at the Emerald City Comicon that she would be attending college later that year. On June 22, 2014, The Boston Globe reported that Dushku had left Los Angeles, moved back to Watertown near Boston, and was planning to attend college. As of 2016, she was a student at Suffolk University, studying sociology. In 2019, Boston Magazine reported that she was studying holistic psychology at Lesley University.
  She is politically active and campaigned for Bernie Sanders in the U.S. presidential election of 2016.
caption: Dushku at Fan Expo Canada in Toronto, 2011
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