| After finishing high school, returned to acting with the horror-drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, on which she played misfit slayer Faith. |
| Her mother briefly put a stop to her acting career---which included roles in True Lies and This Boy's Life---because she didn't like the way her teenage daughter was behaving. |
| While accompanying her actor brother to an audition, a 10-year-old Dushku tripped on a flight of stairs and sustained a bloody nose; her dramatic reaction to the injury caught a ca |
| Beat out thousands of other hopefuls in a nationwide search to win a lead role---and her film debut---in 1992 drama That Night. |