When she was born, her father took one look at her eyes and exclaimed "Firuze"! (which is Persian for turquoise).
Once appeared as a vampire in a ZZ Top video
Born at 3:00am-PDT
She once fully owned her own Occult Craft shop in California called Panpipes. In 2001, she sold 50% of the business was a co-owner. Later she sold her share of the store to the current owners.
Has nine tattoos and a nose ring.
Has a triangle tattoo on her shoulder because the Nazi soldiers branded the symbol on the gypsies in concentration camps. This is her way of paying respect to her culture and remembering the suffering her ancestors endured.
Is of Persian and Gypsy heritage.
A 2002 internet poll confirmed that fans' favorite movie she did, was The Craft
She is dyslexic.
Enjoys listening to punk rock
Plays guitar and piano
Loves to read, and her favorite authors are William Burroughs, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Jung, Isabel Allende, Michael Bulgakov, Ernest Hemingway, and Balzac
Ranked #88 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002)
Fairuza Balk Detailed Biography
Fairuza Alejandra Balk was born, May 21, 1974. Her father Solomon Feldthouse was a traveling musician, and her mother Cathryn Balk was a belly dancer. Unfortunately her parents split up soon after she was born, and Fairuza grew up just north of San Francisco on a commune-type ranch. Fairuza later moved to Vancouver because her mother found work in Vancouver, it was there that Fairuza got her first acting job in a TV-movie, at the age of 9. Two years later, they jetted off to England, where Fairuza attended the Royal Academy of Ballet, the Ramona Beauchamp Agency and the Bush Davies Performing Arts School. At age 11 she was chosen from out of 1,200 girls to play the part of Dorothy, starring in famous "Return to Oz" (1985). A year later she would star as, prophetically enough, "The Worst Witch" (a harbinger of her breakout role in "The Craft" 10 years later). Fairuza and her mother remained in London until 1988, then headed to Paris where the 15-year-old Fairuza starred in "Valmont." The next year they returned to Vancouver where Fairuza enrolled in high school. But, despite being a movie star, Fairuza was shy in class; she ended up doing correspondence courses. Fairuza starred has starred in many Hollywood movies, including "Gas Food Lodging" (1992) for which she received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress. Following further TV and film work, achieved cult status with her starring role as a teenage witch in her signature movie "The Craft" (1996). This movie gave Fairuza her greatest fame. The same year she appeared in "The Island of Dr. Moreau, " in which she did some belly dancing, and attracted the attention of Lancashire, England-born costar David Thewlis. They did 2 more movies together, "American Perfekt" (1997) and "Great Sex" (2000). Fairuza was the love interest in the wildly popular flick "The Waterboy" (1998) and had a major role in "American History X".
