Fairuza Balk began her career as a child on the ABC special The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and the Disney movie Return to Oz. She attended the Bush Davies Performing Arts School in the UK for two and a half years, where she landed a series of jobs. She won a CableAce award as Best Actress for her role in the TV movie Shame and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best actress for Gas, Food Lodging. She also starred in The Waterboy and American History X.
When she was born, her father took one look at her eyes and exclaimed "Firuze!" which is Farsi 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 to a co-owner. Later, she sold her remaining share of the store to the current owners. Has nine tattoos and a nose ring. Has a triangle-shaped tattoo on her shoulder because the soldiers of the Nazi regime branded the symbol on the Romany in concentration camps. This is her way of paying respect to her culture and remembering the suffering her ancestors endured. Is of Persian and Romany 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 S. Burroughs, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Carl Jung, Isabel Allende, Mikhail A. Bulgakov, Ernest Hemingway, and Honoré de Balzac. Ranked #88 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002) Has Irish ancestry