Fairuza Balk

  • Name: Fairuza Balk
  • Date of Birth: May 21, 1974
  • Place of Birth: Point Reyes, California, USA
Mini-bio: Fairuza Balk was born as Fairuza Alejandra Feldthouse in Point Reyes, California to Cathryn Balk, a belly dancer of Dutch descent, and Solomon Feldthouse, a musician. It is said that when she was bo...( read more)rn her father saw her turquoise eyes and exclaimed, "Fairuza!", meaning "turquoise." Soon after her parents divorced, Balk and her mother became world travelers. She was raised for the first part of her life in San Francisco on a commune-type ranch. They then moved to Vancouver when she was nine. At 11 they moved to London, where she attended various prestigious ballet and acting schools. It was at this time that she was selected by the Walt Disney Company to star in Return to Oz, the loose sequel to 1939's The Wizard of Oz. It was not her first role (that was a television movie called The Best Christmas Pageant Ever made in 1983), but it was the one that brought her attention as an actress . The role lead to other minor roles, and in 1988 she moved to Paris to do more work as an actress. By 1989 she was back in Vancouver, where she attended high school.However, she soon decided to take correspondence courses instead and went back to Hollywood, where she gained increasing notice as an actress. In 1992 she was awarded an Independent Spirit Award as best actress for her performance in the Allison Anders film Gas Food Lodging. A couple of years later she cast in as lead role in The Craft, in which her character forms a teenage coven with characters portrayed by Neve Campbell, Rachel True and Robin Tunney. Her casting would seem particularly appropriate as Balk studies Wicca in real life and was part owner of a store dedicated to that religion named Panpipes Magickal Marketplace. She has since sold her interest in the store and is no longer affiliated with it. Balk has continued to find roles. She had a memorable performance as a neo-Nazi opposite Edward Norton in American History X (1998) and since 2000 she has appeared in half a dozen movies. She has also done voice work for animated films and video games, including Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
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Eye color: Blue, When she was born, her father took one look at her eyes and exclaimed "Firuze!" which is Farsi for "turquoise"
Height: 5'3" (1.60m)
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Personal interests/hobbies: Plays guitar and piano.
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  • DesdemoniA
    DesdemoniA
    She rulez !
    posted 133 days ago
  • stephsmatrix
    stephsmatrix
    she rocks!!!!!!! loved her in The Craft and Water Boy, and all her other roles!!!!!
    posted 334 days ago
  • lina5i
    lina5i
    i love u in the water boy movie
    posted 442 days ago
  • blackheart218
    blackheart218
    you are so so sexy lillone if you ever want a thug in your life hit me up http://www.blackplanet.com/therealblackhea/
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    posted 625 days ago
  • XXimNOTanalcoholicXX
    XXimNOTanalcoholicXX
    mmmmmm fricken sexy bitch..hehe!
    posted 652 days ago
  • MizasterJ
    MizasterJ
    She's a unique multi-talented and picturesque fem fatale.
    posted 682 days ago
  • Liloh
    Liloh
    She's perfect for any film genre.

    Very True
    posted 688 days ago
  • garbagefanawesome
    garbagefanawesome
    She's perfect for any film genre.
    posted 734 days ago
  • fionajane
    fionajane
    Fairuza has the most intense eyes I have ever seen to date. I had served her twice, in Cairns... in an art supplies shop when she was there making The Island of Dr Moreau, in the mid '90s... Entrancing, fantastic voice (I doubt that anybody could ever emulate Fairuza's voice). She was polite and assured, and stayed for a while... Am still a fan...
    posted 807 days ago
  • helenbaby
    helenbaby
    I love THE mavie YOUR in the CRAFT it was so awsome!
    posted 809 days ago
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