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Fairuza Balk

Fairuza Balk
Fairuza Balk
Born: May 21, 1974 in Point Reyes, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: The Craft, Gas Food Lodging, American History X
First Major Screen Credit: Return to Oz (1985)
19 Videos for Fairuza Balk
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) American History X (1998) Danger of Love (1992)
Humboldt County (2008) Life in the Fast Lane (1998) Gas Food Lodging (1992)
Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006) The Maker (1997) Shame (1992)
Don't Come Knocking (2005) The Craft (1996) Valmont (1989)
Deuces Wild (2002) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987)
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2001) Imaginary Crimes (1994) The Worst Witch (1986)
Almost Famous (2000)
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Biography:

Former child actress Fairuza Balk started her screen career at the age of 11 when she starred as Dorothy in Return to Oz (1985). A sweet-faced child with dark hair and striking blue eyes, Balk -- whose first name means turquoise in Persian -- was summarily typecast in sugary roles in television movies.

She spent some time in England making films and got a chance at more adult fare in 1989 when she played easily deflowered convent girl Cecile DeVolanges in Milos Forman's Valmont. Balk subsequently returned to the U.S. and, at the age of 18, she earned some of the greatest acclaim of her young career for her portrayal of Shade, a sensitive girl growing up in a dead-end New Mexico town, in Gas, Food, Lodging (1992), the esteemed directorial debut of Alison Anders.

Following further TV and film work, Balk earned a certain degree of cult status with her starring role as a psychotic teenage witch in The Craft (1996). In keeping with the goth image fostered by her role in the film, Balk subsequently bought Panpipes, a famed Hollywood occult shop.

In 1998, the actress ventured into more mainstream territory as the girlfriend of Adam Sandler in the smash comedy The Waterboy. That same year, she earned plaudits playing another girlfriend, this time in American History X, which cast her as the love interest of a neo-Nazi (Edward Norton).

~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide.