Fairuza Balk

• Name: Fairuza Balk
• Date of Birth: May 21, 1974
• Place of Birth: Point Reyes, California, USA

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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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  stephsmatrix

  she rocks!!!!!!! loved her in The Craft and Water Boy, and all her other roles!!!!!

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  lina5i

  i love u in the water boy movie

  posted 111 days ago
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  blackheart218

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  posted 294 days ago
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  XXimNOTanalcoholicXX

  mmmmmm fricken sexy bitch..hehe!

  posted 320 days ago
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  MizasterJ

  She's a unique multi-talented and picturesque fem fatale.

  posted 350 days ago
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  Liloh

  She's perfect for any film genre.
  
  Very True

  posted 357 days ago
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  garbagefanawesome

  She's perfect for any film genre.

  posted 403 days ago
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  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 475 days ago
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  helenbaby

  I love THE mavie YOUR in the CRAFT it was so awsome!

  posted 478 days ago
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  angel4beast

  I didn't realize until now that she played in the movie "Return to OZ" as the little girl Dorothy!! OMG She has changed!!!

  posted 485 days ago

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• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Unrated, 2009)
• Humboldt County (Unrated, 2008)
• Grindstone Road (Unrated, 2008)
• Wild Tigers I Have Known (Unrated, 2007)
• Don't Come Knocking (R, 2006)
• Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (R, 2002)
• Deuces Wild (R, 2001)
• There's No Fish Food in Heaven, (Life in the Fast Lane) (R, 1999)
• The Waterboy (PG-13, 1998)
• The Maker (R, 1998)

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