Fairuza Balk is an American film actress. She made her theatrical film debut as Dorothy Gale in Disney's Return to Oz. Balk also made appearances in Valmont, The Craft, The Island of Dr. Moreau, American History X, The Waterboy, Almost Famous, and Personal Velocity: Three Po...
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Movies
The Craft, The Waterboy, Return to Oz, American History X, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Almost Famous, Valmont, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Gas Food Lodging, The Worst Witch, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, Don't Come Knocking, Deuces Wild, Imaginary Crimes, Things to Do in Denver Whe...
TV Shows
Murder in the Heartland
Star Sign
Gemini
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Trademark
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She often plays supernatural characters or are somehow involved with the supernatural
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Husky voice
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Petite figure
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Large icy blue eyes
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Dark hair and pale skin
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Quote
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I got beat up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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Fact
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Owns several cats.
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Ranked #88 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
Enjoys listening to punk rock, plays guitar and plays piano.
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Parents are Solomon Feldthouse and Cathryn Falk.
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A 2002 Internet poll confirmed that fans' favorite movie she did was The Craft (1996).
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While her first name is Persian, Fairuza herself is not of Persian descent. Fairuza's paternal grandparents were David Stanley Scaff and Mary Lorraine Cole. Fairuza's maternal grandfather, Frederick Franklin Balk, was of German descent, while Fairuza's maternal grandmother, Lavergne Leone White, had English ancestry.
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Has a triangle-shaped tattoo on her shoulder because the soldiers of the Nazi regime branded the symbol on the Romany in concentration camps. This is her way of paying respect to her culture and remembering the suffering her ancestors endured.
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Has nine tattoos and a nose ring.
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She once fully owned her own Occult Craft shop in California called Panpipes. In 2001, she sold 50% of the business to a co-owner. Later, she sold her remaining share of the store to the current owners.
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Born at 3:00am-PDT
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Once appeared as a vampire in a music video by ZZ Top.
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When she was born, her father took one look at her eyes and exclaimed "Firuze!" which is Farsi for "turquoise".
$3 Million
