Eliza Dusku attends the CNN Heroes: An all star tribute

Brunette beauty and once a kick butt and kinda loony vampire slayer Faith  on “Buffy” and “Angel” Eliza Dushku is seen here attending the CNN Heroes: An all star tribute held at The Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. If you are a fan of hers (she also played in the canceled show “Tru Calling” as a girl who worked in the morgue, reliving her days and saving people). You will soon get to see her in another Joss Whedon series (He is the one who brought us Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel). The series is called “Dollhouse” and will premiere in Feb 2009 (and that’s not THAT far away either!) . 

In Dollhouse, Dushku plays a young woman named Echo, a member of a group of people known as “Actives” or “Dolls.” The Dolls have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas, including memory, muscle memory, skills, and language, for different assignments. They’re then hired out for particular jobs, crimes, fantasies, and occasional good deeds. On missions, Actives are monitored internally (and remotely) by Handlers. In between tasks, they are mind-wiped into a child-like state and live in a futuristic dormitory/laboratory, a hidden facility nicknamed “The Dollhouse”. The story follows Echo, who begins, in her mind-wiped state, to become self-aware.

Beyond Dushku’s character, the show will also revolve around the people who run the mysterious “Dollhouse” and two other “Dolls”, Victor and Sierra, who are friendly with Echo. Although the Actives are ostensibly volunteers, the operation is highly illegal and under constant threat on one end from Paul Ballard, a determined federal agent who has heard a rumor about the dolls, and an insane rogue Active on the other.

Doesn’t sound bad eh?