Eliza Dushku

Eliza Patricia Dushku is an American actress with recurring appearances on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as Faith, a Slayer much more troubled than the main character Buffy. Though initially planned as a five episode role, the character became so popular that she stayed on for the entirety of the third season and returned for a two-part appearance in season four, after which the remainder of her original story arc was played out as part of the first season of the "Buffy" spinoff series "Angel." (This crossover to strengthen the spinoff had the unfortunate effect of rendering Faith's story harder to follow as a unity in its own right.) Repentant and rededicated, Faith returned as a heroine in a number of further episodes of "Angel" and in the last five episodes of "Buffy."