Fairuza Balk

When Fairuza Balk was nine years old, she debuted as Dorothy in Walt Disney Pictures' live-action "Return to Oz." She went on to appear as a rape victim living in a small town in the TV movie "Shame," a performance which garnered her a CableAce Award as Best Actress.
Balk next co-starred opposite Tim Roth as a teenage runaway Caril Ann Fugate in "Starkweather: Murder in the Heartland." Other feature credits include "Valmont" and Allison Anders' coming-of-age tale "Gas-Food-Lodging," for which Balk received the coveted Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress. Her film credits include "Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead," "Imaginary Crimes," opposite Harvey Keitel and Louise Fletcher, "Tollbooth," "The Island of Dr. Moreau," directed by John Frankenheimer and the box office hit, "The Craft." She began her professional career as the narrator and leading child actor in George Shaeffer's ABC television production of "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," before starring in "Return to Oz" directed by Walter Murch. In 1985, Balk began a two-and-a-half year term at the Bush Davies Performing Arts School in the United Kingdom. During this time, she landed the lead role in the HBO/Central TV production of "The Worst Witch," co-starring Diana Rigg and Charlotte Rae, and the role of a young Barbara Hutton in "Poor Little Rich Girl." She was later cast to star in "The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick" and went on to portray Cecile de Volange in Milos Forman's "Valmont." Ms. Balk recently completed work on the independent feature film "There is No Fish Food In Heaven," opposite Noah Taylor and Debi Mazur. She can also be seen in "American History X" opposite Ed Norton and Edward Furlong.

Filmography:

What Is It? (2003)
Personal Velocity: In Conversation Rebecca, Parker, Fairuza, and Kyra (2003)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
Deuces Wild (2002)
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002)
Almost Famous (2000)
Red Letters (2000)
Waterboy, The (1998)
American History X (1998)
There's No Fish Food In Heaven (1998)
American Perfekt (1997)
Maker, The (1997)
Witching Hour, The (1996)
Island of Dr. Moreau, The (1996)
Craft, The (1996)
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
Shadow of a Doubt (1995)
Tollbooth (1994)
Imaginary Crimes (1994)
Murder in the Heartland (1993)
Danger of Love, The (1992)
Shame (1992)
Gas Food Lodging (1992)
Deadly Intentions... Again? (1991)
Valmont (1989)
Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick, The (1988)
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987)
Discovery (1986)
Worst Witch, The (1986)
Deceptions (1985)
Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue, The (1985)
Return to Oz (1985)
Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The (1983)

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Trivia: Once appeared as a vampire in a ZZ Top video

She owns her own Occult Craft shop in California called Panpipes.

Appeared in techno-superstar Moby's music video for "Natural Blues, " which began airing in early 2000, along with Christina Ricci.

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.