Eliza Patricia Dushku was born in 1980 on December 30th to a Mormon family in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents are both college professors and she h

Eliza Patricia Dushku was born in 1980 on December 30th to a Mormon family in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents are both college professors and she has three older brothers, whom she says used to terrorize her and taught her to become a tomboy. Eliza Dushku has said, "When I was younger, [my brothers] would try and make me watch scary movies to freak me out. That's what big brothers do!"

At the age of 12 she already proved herself better than every waiter in Los Angeles when she made her way onto the silver screen in the 1992 film That Night. The film wasn't a box-office smash, but it did lead to a role alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in 1993's This Boy's Life.