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| Birth Name(s) : Fairuza Alejandra Balk |
Date of Birth: May 21, 1974 |
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| Fairuza Balk's acting career started with the television special "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" (1983) and the Disney movie "Return to Oz" (1985). Other popular feature films of hers include "The Craft" (1996), "American History X" (1997) and "Almost Famous" (2000). |
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Fairuza Alejandra Balk (born May 21, 1974) is an American film actress. She is known for her role in the 1996 movie The Craft, the 1998 movie The Waterboy and, more than ten years earlier, in Disney's 1985 Return to Oz.
Balk was born as Fairuza Alejandra Feldthouse in Point Reyes, California. Her mother, Cathryn Balk, is of Dutch descent and worked as a belly dancer and teacher of Middle Eastern and Flamenco dancing. Her father, Solomon Feldthouse, is a traveling folk musician who was born in Pingry, Idaho and moved to Turkey at the age of ten, where he lived for six years and learned Greek, Turkish and Persian music. It is said that when she was born her father saw her turquoise eyes and exclaimed, "Fairuza!", meaning "turquoise." Fairuza is the Persian word "فيروزه" firouzeh. 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. When she was eleven, they moved to London, where she attended various prestigious ballet and acting schools.
It was in London 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 led 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 a lead role in The Craft, in which her character forms a teenage coven with characters portrayed by Neve Campbell, Rachel True and Robin Tunney.
Balk has continued to find roles. She had a performance as a neo-Nazi opposite Edward Norton in American History X (1998), starred in "The Island of Dr Moreau" (1996), and was featured in The Water Boy (1998) opposite Adam Sandler. Since 2000 she has appeared in over half a dozen movies. She has also done voice work for animated films and video games, including Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Balk lives in Venice, California, and has an apartment in New York City. Outside her career, her interests include writing poetry and fiction, playing guitar, singing, and dancing. Over the years she has been romantically involved with a number of well known men including British actor David Thewlis who appeared with her in The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) and C.M. Talkington, director and writer of the cult classic, Love and a .45. She is the lead singer in a band(G13 is the name).
Balk belly dances, as demonstrated in the movie The Island of Dr. Moreau. Her nickname is Ru. Her favorite authors include: William Burroughs, James Joyce, Isabel Allende, Mikhail Bulgakov, Oscar Wilde, and recently Ernest Hemingway and Balzac.
She is also a well known Pagan, even before shooting 1996's The Craft. She provided some Witchcraft information on set, as well as helped design many of the sets to match real Pagan rituals. |
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| As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and when my head came out he says that I looked right into his eyes and that my eyes were the color of electric turquoise and in Persian the word for turquoise is Fairuza, it also means Sacred or Precious one....don't ask me... |
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